{"id":6866,"date":"2017-09-16T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/16\/with-assads-fate-secure-russia-sets-its-sights-on-isis-fighters-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T15:31:34","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T13:31:34","slug":"with-assads-fate-secure-russia-sets-its-sights-on-isis-fighters-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6866","title":{"rendered":"With Assad&#039;s fate secure, Russia sets its sights on Isis fighters in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian commander says defeat of Islamic State is imminent after Syrian forces recapture strategic town of OkeirbatThe head of the Russian army in Syria has promised the defeat of Islamic State in the country is imminent during a visit to a strategically located town recently recaptured from Isis by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad.\u201cAll the conditions are in place for the final stage of defeating Isis in Syria,\u201d said Lt Gen Alexander Lapin, standing amid heavy security outside the building of a former Isis sharia court, adorned with the extremist group\u2019s black-and-white logo. \u201cI can promise you that no Isis terrorist will ever set foot in this town again.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/16\/russia-islamic-state-syria-assad-forces-recapture-town-okeirbat\" target=\"_blank\">With Assad&#039;s fate secure, Russia sets its sights on Isis fighters in Syria<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian commander says defeat of Islamic State is imminent after Syrian forces recapture strategic town of OkeirbatThe head of the Russian army in Syria has promised the defeat of Islamic State in the country is imminent during a visit to a strategically located town recently recaptured from Isis by forces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}