{"id":22432,"date":"2013-01-22T08:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T07:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/22\/284920\/syria-forces-repel-attack-on-checkpoint\/"},"modified":"2013-01-22T08:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T07:52:53","slug":"syria-forces-repel-attack-on-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/syria-forces-repel-attack-on-checkpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria forces repel attack on checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Syrian government forces have thwarted an attack by a group of foreign-sponsored gunmen against an Army checkpoint in the central province of Homs.<\/p>\n<p>A number of gunmen were killed during intense clashes with Syrian troops on Monday as they assaulted the military building in the Tal Um Sakher district of the al-Qusayr city, located about 4.8 kilometers (3 miles) southwest of Homs, the official SANA news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian soldiers seized various kinds of weapons and munitions after the battle.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Monday, a unit of government forces killed a number of armed men in the al-Sheikh neighborhood of the Aleppo city, situated 310 kilometers (193 miles) north of the capital Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>The slain gunmen had terrorized citizens, and committed numerous counts of murder, robbery, and looting in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian soldiers also clashed with gunmen in the towns of Khan al-Asal, Atarib and Deir Jamal, and killed dozens of them.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of Army and security personnel, have been killed in the violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government has said that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and that a very large number of the militants operating in the country are foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/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":"<p>Syrian government forces have thwarted an attack by a group of foreign-sponsored gunmen against an Army checkpoint in the central province of Homs.<br \/>\nA number of gunmen were killed during intense clashes with Syrian troops on Monday as they assaulted th&#8230;<\/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-22432","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\/22432","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=22432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}