{"id":385239,"date":"2018-11-16T04:38:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-using-white-phosphorous-bombs-in-syria-russia\/"},"modified":"2018-11-16T04:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:38:54","slug":"presstv-us-using-white-phosphorous-bombs-in-syria-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-using-white-phosphorous-bombs-in-syria-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US using white phosphorous bombs in Syria: Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russia says US warplanes are using white phosphorous bombs in their airstrikes against civilian-populated areas\u00a0east of\u00a0the Euphrates River in\u00a0Syria, leaving civilian casualties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Americans have resumed intensive airstrikes against\u00a0terrorist-controlled settlements along\u00a0the eastern bank of\u00a0Euphrates,\u201d Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0local residents, US-led coalition jet fighters are using\u00a0\u201cwhite phosphorus munitions&#8221; in their airstrikes, Zakharova said, speaking at\u00a0a press briefing in\u00a0Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>White phosphorus munitions are banned under\u00a0the 1977 First Additional Protocol to\u00a0the 1949 Geneva Conventions.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian spokeswoman\u2019s comments came after Syria\u2019s official news agency SANA reported that the US-led coalition\u00a0has carried out fresh aerial attacks against residential areas in Syria\u2019s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, using internationally-banned cluster&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/11\/15\/580132\/US-Coalition-Syria-Phosphorous-airstrike\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says US warplanes are using white phosphorous bombs in their airstrikes against civilian-populated areas\u00a0east of\u00a0the Euphrates River in\u00a0Syria, leaving civilian casualties. &#8220;The Americans have resumed intensive airstrikes against\u00a0terrorist-controlled settlements along\u00a0the eastern bank of\u00a0Euphrates,\u201d Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday. According to\u00a0local residents, US-led coalition jet fighters are using\u00a0\u201cwhite phosphorus munitions&#8221; in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385239","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=385239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}