{"id":290433,"date":"2017-01-17T15:42:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-increasing-airdrops-of-military-supplies-to-militants-in-syria-report\/"},"modified":"2017-01-17T15:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T14:42:02","slug":"us-increasing-airdrops-of-military-supplies-to-militants-in-syria-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-increasing-airdrops-of-military-supplies-to-militants-in-syria-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US increasing airdrops of military supplies to militants in Syria: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States is increasing airdrops of weapons, ammunition and other equipment to foreign-backed militant forces in the northeastern Syrian city of Raqqah, according to a report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur expanded precision airdrop capability is helping ground forces take the offensive to (Daesh) and efforts to retake Raqqah,\u201d Gen. Carlton Everhart, commander of the US Air Force\u2019s Air Mobility Command, was quoted by <em>USA Today<\/em> as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force carried out a total of 16 airdrop missions in Syria last year; six of those were in December alone, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the airdrops are meant to boost the capabilities of militants who do not have extensive ground supply lines in a hostile environment. Raqqah is Daesh\u2019s self-proclaimed \u201ccapital.\u201d The terrorist group took over the city in March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn those instances airdrops are absolutely essential,\u201d said Air Force Col. John Dorrian, a military spokesman in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20161103\/d25fc6e0-b13a-433f-b6e0-d61a09858b22.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Foreign-backed militants&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/17\/506597\/US-increasing-airdrops-for-militants-in-Syria\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is increasing airdrops of weapons, ammunition and other equipment to foreign-backed militant forces in the northeastern Syrian city of Raqqah, according to a report. \u201cOur expanded precision airdrop capability is helping ground forces take the offensive to (Daesh) and efforts to retake Raqqah,\u201d Gen. Carlton Everhart, commander of the US Air Force\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-290433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290433","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=290433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}