{"id":42492,"date":"2013-06-16T21:57:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T20:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/huge-blast-rocks-damascus-reports\/42492\/"},"modified":"2013-06-16T21:57:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T20:57:22","slug":"huge-blast-rocks-damascus-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/huge-blast-rocks-damascus-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Huge blast rocks Damascus \u2014 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"b-min_width\">\n        <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"b-main_chrome-extension_close\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/syria-damascus-airport-blast-790\/\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n        <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"b-main_chrome-extension_button\" href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/webstore\/detail\/rt-news\/kloiceblkijlknknaibcaieiicafajlo\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"b-main_chrome-extension_message\">Keep up with the news by installing RT\u2019s extension for Chrome. Never miss a story with this clean and simple app that delivers the latest headlines to you.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"b-main_chrome-extension_close\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/syria-damascus-airport-blast-790\/\"><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>    <i class=\"border-bg\"><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"content p-page\">\n    <!-- crumbs --><br \/>\n    <!--\/\/ crumbs --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wp\">\n<div class=\"cont-wp-mid\">\n<div class=\"cont-wp\">\n<p>A powerful explosion has rocked a military airport in a suburb in the Syrian capital Damascus, according to witness reports and local media.<\/p>\n<p>\n  Syrian state TV has been relating witness testimonies of a huge<br \/>\n  blast that was heard throughout most of western Damascus on<br \/>\n  Sunday. It took place in the Mezzeh district that is home to<br \/>\n  several embassies and the Mezzeh military airport.\n  <\/p>\n<p>The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed the<br \/>\n  source of the blast to be a car bomb detonated at a checkpoint<br \/>\n  near the airport, which is also one of the major government elite<br \/>\n  force bases, often used for transporting supplies.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Video footage captured by witnesses allegedly showed smoke and<br \/>\n  flames rising from the area. \u00a0\n  <\/p>\n<p>DETAILS TO FOLLOW<br \/>\n  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- \/\/ comments --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!--\/\/ content-wp -->\n    <\/div>\n<p>    <!--\/\/ content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/\/ aside --><\/p>\n<div class=\"main-footer clearfix\">\n<p class=\"copyright\">\u00a9 Autonomous Nonprofit Organization \u201cTV-Novosti\u201d, 2005\u20142013. All rights reserved.\n                  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This article originally appeared on: <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/syria-damascus-airport-blast-790\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Huge blast rocks Damascus \u2014 reports\">RT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Keep up with the news by installing RT\u2019s extension for Chrome. Never miss a story with this clean and simple app that delivers the latest headlines to you. \u00a0 A powerful explosion has rocked a military airport in a suburb in the Syrian capital Damascus, according to witness reports and local media. Syrian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42492","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\/42492","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=42492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}