{"id":219104,"date":"2023-06-26T00:08:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T18:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=219104"},"modified":"2023-06-26T00:08:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T18:38:59","slug":"airstrike-hits-busy-market-in-opposition-held-northwestern-syria-and-kills-at-least-9-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/06\/26\/airstrike-hits-busy-market-in-opposition-held-northwestern-syria-and-kills-at-least-9-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Airstrike hits busy market in opposition-held northwestern Syria and kills at least 9 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">JISR AL-SHUGHUR, Syria, 25 Jun: An airstrike early Sunday over a busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria killed at least nine people, activists and local first responders said.<br \/>\nActivists and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a top ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched the strike over the strategic opposition-held town of Jisr al-Shughur near the Turkish border.<br \/>\nThe strike comes a day after Moscow\u2019s top mercenary group briefly revolted against Russian President Vladimir Putin.<br \/>\nOpposition-held northwestern Syria\u2019s civil defense organization known as the White Helmets said over 30 people were wounded, and expected the death toll to increase.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re hearing that the critically wounded have been dying after reaching the hospital,\u201d Ahmad Yaziji of the White Helmets told The Associated Press. \u201cIt was a targeted attack in the main vegetable market where farmers from around northern Syria gather.\u201d<br \/>\nFarmers rushed the wounded to the hospital in bloodied vegetable trucks, while activists shared urgent calls for blood donations.<br \/>\nNeither Syria nor Russia commented on the airstrike, though Damascus says strikes in the northwest province target armed insurgent groups.<br \/>\nNorthwestern Syria is mostly held by the militant group Hayat Tahrir al Sham, as well as Turkish-backed forces. AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JISR AL-SHUGHUR, Syria, 25 Jun: An airstrike early Sunday over a busy vegetable market in northwestern Syria killed at least nine people, activists and local first responders said. Activists and Britain-based opposition war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Russia, a top ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched the strike over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-219104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}