{"id":42086,"date":"2018-01-05T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T08:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42086"},"modified":"2018-01-05T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T08:01:38","slug":"2-russian-soldiers-killed-in-mortar-attack-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=42086","title":{"rendered":"2 Russian soldiers killed in mortar attack in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MOSCOW Jan 05 (TNS):<\/strong> Two Russian soldiers were killed in a mortar attack on the Hmeymim airbase in Syria last month, the Russian Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack was launched by &#8220;a group of mobile subversive militants&#8221; on Dec. 31, 2017, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>It denied media reports that seven Russian military aircraft were destroyed during the mortar shelling.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian air force in Syria is combat-ready and continues to fully carry out its missions, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow began military operations against terrorist groups in Syria at the request of Damascus since September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of the Russian army, the Syrian government has retaken most of its territories controlled by the Islamic State group in the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Given the victory on the ground, the Russian army began a partial withdrawal of its troops in Syria early last month under the order of President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW Jan 05 (TNS): Two Russian soldiers were killed in a mortar attack on the Hmeymim airbase in Syria last month, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The attack was launched by &#8220;a group of mobile subversive militants&#8221; on Dec. 31, 2017, according to the statement. It denied media reports that seven Russian military aircraft were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[830,733],"class_list":["post-42086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moscow","tag-moscow","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42088,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086\/revisions\/42088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}