{"id":187634,"date":"2015-10-01T13:05:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=187634"},"modified":"2015-10-01T13:06:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:06:03","slug":"russia-defending-syria-us-led-terrorist-invasion-american-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/russia-defending-syria-us-led-terrorist-invasion-american-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia defending Syria from US-led terrorist invasion: American journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong>Russia has launched airstrikes against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists at the request of the Syrian government to defend the country from a US-led invasion, an American political commentator and journalist says.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, Russian fighter jets carried out their first airstrike against ISIL terrorists near the Syrian city of Homs, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting between Syrian forces and foreign-sponsored militants since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Russia started the air campaign after the upper house of its parliament gave President Vladimir Putin the green light to use force in Syria. The government of President Bashar al-Assad had requested for Russian military support against Daesh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russia acts in coordination with Syria\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, Don DeBar said Russia is implementing its defense agreements with Syria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Syrian government, which is the legitimate government of Syria according to every measure by the UN\u2026 has agreements with Russia \u2014 mutual self-defense agreements, arms agreements and others \u2014 that are being implemented.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia is acting in coordination with the Syrian government to defend Syria from an invasion. This is an invasion, this is not a rebellion. They are not Syrians that are doing this fighting,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/10\/01\/431499\/Russia-Syria-US-invasion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has launched airstrikes against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists at the request of the Syrian government to defend the country from a US-led invasion, an American political commentator and journalist says.\u00a0 On Wednesday morning, Russian fighter jets carried out their first airstrike against ISIL terrorists near the Syrian city of Homs, which has seen some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-187634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}