{"id":27313,"date":"2019-06-03T13:51:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T05:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=27313"},"modified":"2019-06-03T13:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T05:55:15","slug":"explosion-hits-rebel-held-city-near-syria-turkey-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=27313","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Hits Rebel-Held City Near Syria-Turkey Border"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DAMASCUS, Syria, June 3 (NNN-SANA) &#8211; An explosion hit the rebel-held city of Azaz in northern Syria near Turkey on Sunday, activists said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion was reportedly caused by a car bomb that went off in the centre of Azaz, said the report, with no details on casualties yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azaz, located in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, is controlled by Turkey-backed rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 19, 2012, rebels against the Syrian government succeeded in capturing Azaz, which is a highly-valued area, due to its proximity to the Turkish-Syrian border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Daesh took control of the city in Oct, 2013, but withdrew from it in Feb, 2014, and the Turkey-backed rebels retook it.&#8211; NNN-SANA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS, Syria, June 3 (NNN-SANA) &#8211; An explosion hit the rebel-held city of Azaz in northern Syria near Turkey on Sunday, activists said. The explosion was reportedly caused by a car bomb that went off in the centre of Azaz, said the report, with no details on casualties yet. Azaz, located in the northern countryside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}