{"id":150264,"date":"2015-05-11T18:37:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=150264"},"modified":"2015-05-11T18:37:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T18:37:55","slug":"damascus-slams-u-s-bid-to-train-syrian-rebels-accuses-washington-of-supporting-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/damascus-slams-u-s-bid-to-train-syrian-rebels-accuses-washington-of-supporting-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Damascus Slams U.S. Bid to Train Syrian rebels, Accuses Washington of Supporting Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Saturday slammed the U.S. plan to train Syrian rebels, accusing Washington of supporting terrorism and complicating the political solution in Syria, the official SANA news agency reported.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0United States\u00a0will start training what it called \u2018moderate\u2019 Syrian rebels under the pretext of fighting Daesh and Nusra Front terrorists,\u201d Mekdad said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS) group.<\/p>\n<p>By that, \u201cthe United States is lying to its people and the global public opinion,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe United States, by training the rebels, is going to be supporting terrorism and complicating the conditions of a political solution in Syria to achieve its schemes in the region and to protect\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/search.news.cn\/language\/search.jspa?id=en&amp;t1=0&amp;t=1&amp;ss=&amp;btn=0&amp;ct=Yemen&amp;n1=Israel&amp;np=content\">Israel<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2015-05\/09\/c_134224849.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad on Saturday slammed the U.S. plan to train Syrian rebels, accusing Washington of supporting terrorism and complicating the political solution in Syria, the official SANA news agency reported. \u201cThe\u00a0United States\u00a0will start training what it called \u2018moderate\u2019 Syrian rebels under the pretext of fighting Daesh and Nusra Front terrorists,\u201d Mekdad [&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-150264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}