{"id":49933,"date":"2015-05-22T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/first_ramadi_then_palmyra_isis_shows_it_can_storm_bastions_of_syria_and_ira\/"},"modified":"2015-05-22T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T17:00:32","slug":"first_ramadi_then_palmyra_isis_shows_it_can_storm_bastions_of_syria_and_ira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49933","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) First Ramadi, then Palmyra: Isis shows it can storm bastions of Syria and Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State fighters are celebrating their second major conquest in a week in Syria and Iraq as they pick through the ruins of the historic city of Palmyra.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden advance of the militants into the UN heritage site in central Syria resulted in the rout of a national army, the exodus of refugees and a fresh pulse of regional alarm at the resilience of the self-styled caliphate force.<\/p>\n<p>The UN said one-third of Palmyra\u2019s 200,000-strong population had fled. And Isis militants used social media to show themselves posing amid ancient columns in Palmyra on Thursday. Other images displayed a more familiar theme: the summary slaughter of local men whose blood drenched the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/may\/21\/isis-palmyra-ramadi-advances-say-more-about-state-weakness-than-jihadi-strength\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State fighters are celebrating their second major conquest in a week in Syria and Iraq as they pick through the ruins of the historic city of Palmyra. The sudden advance of the militants into the UN heritage site in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49933\">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":[39,40,50,42,168,144,557,426,203,155,151,108,556,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-iraq","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-syria","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49933","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=49933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}