{"id":20347,"date":"2013-01-13T23:08:06","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/13\/283399\/syria-forces-stiffly-confront-militants\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T23:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:08:06","slug":"syria-forces-stiffly-confront-militants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/syria-forces-stiffly-confront-militants\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria forces stiffly confront militants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Syrian security forces have inflicted heavy losses on foreign-backed militants in key areas on the outskirts of Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the government forces killed and wounded many militants in Darayya, which is a strategic suburb of the capital\u2019s, the official SANA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a government official said the Army had taken much of Darayya after nearly two months of fighting in the district.<\/p>\n<p>The Darayya suburb is flanked by the key districts of Mezzeh, which is home to a military airbase, and Kafar Sussah that houses the government headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Government troops also destroyed the militants\u2019 hideouts and confiscated their weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Army killed and wounded many members of armed terrorist groups in Douma Farms and al-Maliha in Damascus countryside.<\/p>\n<p>The security forces also attacked militants in and around the governorates of Hama, Homs, and in Aleppo. The Syrian troops destroyed their hideouts and confiscated weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of Army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants fighting the Syrian government are foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Several international human rights organizations have accused foreign-sponsored militants of committing war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>GJH\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Syrian security forces have inflicted heavy losses on foreign-backed militants in key areas on the outskirts of Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the government forces killed and wounded many militants in Darayya, which is a strategic suburb of the capital&rsquo;s, the official SANA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, a government official said the Army had taken much of Darayya after nearly two months of fighting in the district.<\/p>\n<p>The Darayya suburb is flanked by the key districts of Mezzeh, which is home to a military airbase, and Kafar Sussah that houses the government headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Government troops also destroyed the militants&rsquo; hideouts and confiscated their weapons.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Army killed and wounded many members of armed terrorist groups in Douma Farms and al-Maliha in Damascus countryside.<\/p>\n<p>The security forces also attacked militants in and around the governorates of Hama, Homs, and in Aleppo. The Syrian troops destroyed their hideouts and confiscated weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of Army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants fighting the Syrian government are foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Several international human rights organizations have accused foreign-sponsored militants of committing war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>GJH\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20347","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\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}