{"id":141729,"date":"2018-07-06T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=141729"},"modified":"2018-07-06T17:50:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:50:58","slug":"information-ministry-announces-death-of-former-information-minister-omran-al-zoubi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=141729","title":{"rendered":"Information Ministry announces death of former Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA-The Ministry of Information said Omran al-Zoubi, Deputy Chairman of the National Progressive Front and former information minister died earlier on Friday after a battle with illness.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Damascus in 1959 and with a degree in law from Damascus University, the deceased was a lawyer and an author of several books, studies and political, legal and media research.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed as minister<a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/omran-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141731 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/omran-2-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> of information in 2012. Later in 2016, he was appointed deputy chairman of the National Progressive Front, a post he held until his death.<\/p>\n<p>Manal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA-The Ministry of Information said Omran al-Zoubi, Deputy Chairman of the National Progressive Front and former information minister died earlier on Friday after a battle with illness. Born in Damascus in 1959 and with a degree in law from Damascus University, the deceased was a lawyer and an author of several books, studies and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6987,115,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-latest-news","category-local","category-news-locals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}