{"id":46011,"date":"2014-09-23T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_u-s-_expands_war_against_islamic_state_with_risk-laden_airstrike\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:00:05","slug":"wash-_post_u-s-_expands_war_against_islamic_state_with_risk-laden_airstrike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46011","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) U.S. expands war against Islamic State with risk-laden airstrikes in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and several Middle East partners pounded Islamic State targets in Syria Tuesday with waves of warplanes and Tomahawk cruise missiles in an aggressive and risky operation marking a new phase in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the U.S. Central Command early Tuesday said that a \u201cmix of fighter, bomber, remotely-piloted aircraft and Tomahawk\u201d\u009d cruise missiles destroyed or damaged multiple Islamic State targets in several parts of Syria, where a civil war has been raging for more than three years.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. statement said \u201cpartner nations,\u201d\u009d including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, \u201cparticipated in or supported\u201d\u009d the operation. The involvement of these regional allies are key for the legitimacy and logistics of the operation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/us-attacks-islamic-state-in-syria-with-five-middle-east-partners\/2014\/09\/23\/b78ad7e8-c8f2-4aa8-aaa7-ec92572f6716_story.html?hpid=z1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and several Middle East partners pounded Islamic State targets in Syria Tuesday with waves of warplanes and Tomahawk cruise missiles in an aggressive and risky operation marking a new phase in the conflict. A statement issued by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46011\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,143,168,119,161,564,557,426,203,659,155,108,95,556,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46011","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-globalization","category-inter-faith-relations","category-iran","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-syria","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46011","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=46011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}