{"id":38791,"date":"2019-08-22T11:44:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T03:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=38791"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T03:50:58","slug":"syrian-army-enters-key-town-to-lay-full-siege-to-rebel-held-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=38791","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Army Enters Key Town To Lay Full Siege To Rebel-Held Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug 22 (NNN-SANA) &#8211; The Syrian army, on Wednesday, entered the strategic Khan Shaykhun town, in the northwestern province of Idlib, following the rebels&#8217; withdrawal, a monitor group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Syrian army completed the siege to rebel-held areas, in the adjacent northern countryside of Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this progress, the army had also laid siege to an area in the town of Morek, in northern Hama countryside, where a Turkish observation point is located, the Observatory added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, a well-informed source said that, the army has immediately started removing mines and combing Khan Shaykhun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day earlier, the rebel groups were forced to withdraw from Khan Shaykhun and other key towns in the adjacent countryside of Hama, as a result of the offensive by the Syrian military in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Idlib and the northern countryside of Hama are included in the deescalation zones&#8217; deal that was reached between Russia and Turkey last Sept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal, however, has largely failed despite several attempts to revive it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest attempt to fix the deal came earlier this month, when Turkey and Russia mediated a fresh cease-fire in Idlib, which failed quickly with the resumption of the military showdown.&#8211; NNN-SANA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS, Syria, Aug 22 (NNN-SANA) &#8211; The Syrian army, on Wednesday, entered the strategic Khan Shaykhun town, in the northwestern province of Idlib, following the rebels&#8217; withdrawal, a monitor group said. The Syrian army completed the siege to rebel-held areas, in the adjacent northern countryside of Hama Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38791"}],"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=38791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}