{"id":390721,"date":"2018-12-27T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/e-syria-must-return-to-govt-control-after-us-exit\/"},"modified":"2018-12-27T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-27T16:30:30","slug":"e-syria-must-return-to-govt-control-after-us-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/e-syria-must-return-to-govt-control-after-us-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"E Syria must return to govt. control after US exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Russia says the territories currently occupied by American troops in eastern Syria should return to government control following Washington\u2019s planned withdrawal of its military forces from the Arab country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova\u00a0said on Wednesday that Moscow has no information about the pullout schedule or contact between Washington and Damascus on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>However, she added, Moscow understands the importance of US President Donald Trump\u2019s decision and is closely monitoring its implementation, which would \u201ccontribute to a comprehensive settlement of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question emerges\u00a0\u2014 who will receive control over\u00a0the US-held Syrian territories? Obviously, in\u00a0accordance with\u00a0international law and taking into\u00a0consideration what Syria and its people have been through, it should be the Syrian government,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the troop withdrawal happens, it would have a positive impact on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/12\/27\/584072\/Russia-Syria-withdrwal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says the territories currently occupied by American troops in eastern Syria should return to government control following Washington\u2019s planned withdrawal of its military forces from the Arab country. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova\u00a0said on Wednesday that Moscow has no information about the pullout schedule or contact between Washington and Damascus on the matter. [&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-390721","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\/390721","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=390721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}