{"id":23207,"date":"2014-12-28T07:46:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T05:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=23207"},"modified":"2015-01-05T15:39:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T13:39:20","slug":"locals-defending-ayn-al-arab-regain-control-over-more-than-60-of-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=23207","title":{"rendered":"Locals defending Ayn al-Arab regain control over more than 60% of the city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aleppo countryside, SANA \u2013 The locals defending Ayn al-Arab city have regained control over more than 60% of the city, including the whole southern neighborhood, the cultural center, and the school compound in the eastern area.<\/p>\n<p>The city, located in northeastern Aleppo on Syria&#8217;s northern border with Turkey, has been under repeated attacks since mid September by the terrorist organization of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a bid to seize control of it.<\/p>\n<p>However, ISIS attempt to take over Ayn al-Arab has been met with fierce resistance by the locals, who have been fighting tooth and nail to defend their city.<\/p>\n<p>Local sources stressed on Saturday that over 60 % of the city are now in the defenders&#8217; hand, noting that the defenders succeeded two days ago to reach the Municipality building in the middle of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The sources also confirmed that ISIS terrorists have withdrawn from several areas northeast of the city which had been under their control.<\/p>\n<p>Rasha Raslan\/Haifa Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aleppo countryside, SANA \u2013 The locals defending Ayn al-Arab city have regained control over more than 60% of the city, including the whole southern neighborhood, the cultural center, and the school compound in the eastern area. The city, located in northeastern Aleppo on Syria&#8217;s northern border with Turkey, has been under repeated attacks since mid &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,116,450],"tags":[2710,3719],"class_list":["post-23207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-local","category-news-locals","category-reality-of-events","tag-ayn-al-arab","tag-regain-control"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207"}],"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=23207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}