{"id":68247,"date":"2024-12-07T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=68247"},"modified":"2024-12-07T17:56:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:56:42","slug":"iron-fisted-assad-under-threat-as-syrian-rebels-draw-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/12\/07\/iron-fisted-assad-under-threat-as-syrian-rebels-draw-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron-fisted Assad under threat as Syrian rebels draw closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1vrCCM.img?w=768&amp;h=477&amp;m=6&amp;x=324&amp;y=119&amp;s=226&amp;d=226\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad visit the Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province, Syria December 11, 2017. Sputnik\/Mikhail Klimentyev\/ via REUTERS\/File Photo\" width=\"366\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dropcap-element-slot\">P<\/span>resident Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them, leaving him vulnerable when his allies were distracted h.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/iron-fisted-assad-under-threat-as-syrian-rebels-draw-closer\/ar-AA1vrHym?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=02ec9689e52e4e22a10a334f229250db&amp;ei=50\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>President Bashar al-Assad used Russian and Iranian firepower to beat back rebel forces during years of civil war but never defeated them,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bashir-Al-Assad.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68248,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68247\/revisions\/68248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}