{"id":40259,"date":"2013-09-27T01:18:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T01:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_largest_syrian_rebel_groups_form_islamic_alliance_in_possible_bl\/"},"modified":"2013-09-27T01:18:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T01:18:42","slug":"wash-_post_largest_syrian_rebel_groups_form_islamic_alliance_in_possible_bl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40259","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) Largest Syrian rebel groups form Islamic alliance, in possible blow to U.S. influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American hopes of winning more influence over Syria\u2019s fractious rebel movement faded Wednesday after 11 of the biggest armed factions repudiated the Western-backed opposition coalition and announced the formation of a new alliance dedicated to creating an Islamic state.<\/p>\n<p>The al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, designated a terrorist organization by the United States, is the lead signatory of the new group, which will further complicate fledgling U.S. efforts to provide lethal aid to \u201cmoderate\u201d\u009d rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/largest-syrian-rebel-groups-embrace-islamic-alliance-in-possible-blow-to-us-influence\/2013\/09\/25\/f669629e-25f8-11e3-9372-92606241ae9c_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American hopes of winning more influence over Syria\u2019s fractious rebel movement faded Wednesday after 11 of the biggest armed factions repudiated the Western-backed opposition coalition and announced the formation of a new alliance dedicated to creating an Islamic state. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40259\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,209,143,168,144,426,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}