{"id":71126,"date":"2017-03-27T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T19:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71126"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T18:36:14","slug":"kurds-take-isil-air-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71126","title":{"rendered":"Kurds Take ISIL Air Base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/imagecache\/mbdxxlarge\/mritems\/Images\/2017\/3\/27\/0ce0c389dbf74f35813c44e327a5d00d_18.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>The Tabqa air base is 28 miles west of Raqqa. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4713496\/kurdish-rebels-isis-tabqa-syria\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/4713496\/kurdish-rebels-isis-tabqa-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>US-led coalition forces have said the Tabqa dam is structurally sound. It is 25 miles upstread of Raqqa on the Euphrates River.<\/p>\n<p>The activist group \u201cRaqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently\u201d reported that ISIS had ordered Raqqa residents to evacuate, though without their furniture. \u00a0Those sand rats must be setting up an after-market postwar furniture chain.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian National Coalition said in a statement that it was &#8220;increasingly concerned&#8221; about civilian casualties in the campaign against the extremist group.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more detail at the report in this link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/03\/backed-forces-capture-tabqa-air-base-isil-170327033050002.html\">http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/03\/backed-forces-capture-tabqa-air-base-isil-170327033050002.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0comes just a few days after the US airlifted the Kurdish forces last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Reuters The Tabqa air base is 28 miles west of Raqqa. \u00a0http:\/\/time.com\/4713496\/kurdish-rebels-isis-tabqa-syria\/ US-led coalition forces have said the Tabqa dam is structurally sound. It is 25 miles upstread of Raqqa on the Euphrates River. The activist group \u201cRaqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently\u201d reported that ISIS had ordered Raqqa residents to evacuate, though without their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-ivc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}