{"id":23135,"date":"2013-01-24T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T12:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/01\/24\/285305\/army-defuses-bombs-in-western-syria\/"},"modified":"2013-01-24T13:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T12:43:16","slug":"army-defuses-bombs-in-western-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/army-defuses-bombs-in-western-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Army defuses bombs in western Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"ctl00_body_spnDetail\">Syrian Army soldiers stand at a checkpoint in a northeastern suburb of the capital, Damascus. (File photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>Syrian soldiers have defused a number of roadside bombs in the west of the country as the Army continues its operations against foreign-backed militants, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Army units on Thursday defused five explosive devices planted on a road near the city of Homs.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy fighting was reported in the capital, Damascus, as well as in the southwestern city of Dara&#8217;a.<\/p>\n<p>Sixteen militants were killed in the clashes with government forces.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Syrian minister for religious endowments (Awqaf) called for million-man prayers at mosques on Friday for the restoration of security in the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mohammed Abdul Sattar said Syria will prevail against the conspiracy that has been hatched by hostile states and led by Wahhabi infidels from abroad.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSyria has been experiencing a deadly unrest since March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of army and security personnel, have been killed in the prolonged turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>Damascus says 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>MRS\/HMV<\/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 Army soldiers stand at a checkpoint in a northeastern suburb of the capital, Damascus. (File photo)<br \/>\nSyrian soldiers have defused a number of roadside bombs in the west of the country as the Army continues its operations against foreign-backed mi&#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-23135","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\/23135","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=23135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}