{"id":2184,"date":"2014-11-29T06:51:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T11:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2014-11-29T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T11:51:47","slug":"syria-us-led-strikes-failed-to-weaken-isis-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2184","title":{"rendered":"Syria: US-led strikes failed to weaken ISIS \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/209927-syria-us-strikes-isis-fail\/\">Syria: US-led strikes failed to weaken ISIS \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) has not been weakened since US-led airstrikes began in September, Syria\u2019s foreign minister said, adding that nothing will change until Turkey increases security at its borders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><a style=\"vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: color, text-decoration; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial; color: #044faa; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/op-edge\/209447-syria-conflict-violence-isis-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE: \u2018Key to ISIS fighting &#8211; concerted pressure on its funding and sources of arms\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">&#8220;All the indications say that [the Islamic State] today, after two months of coalition air strikes, is not weaker,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem told the Beirut-based Al Mayadeen TV on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>US-led airstrikes in Syria against the IS began as part of a larger effort to battle the jihadist group after it had seized vast amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria. Despite carrying out airstrikes in Syria, Washington has refused to work with the country\u2019s government, stating that it wants to see Bashar Assad ousted. Turkey shares the latter stance with the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria: US-led strikes failed to weaken ISIS \u2014 RT News. The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS\/ISIL) has not been weakened since US-led airstrikes began in September, Syria\u2019s foreign minister said, adding that nothing will change until Turkey increases security at its borders. READ MORE: \u2018Key to ISIS fighting &#8211; concerted pressure on its funding and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1239,445,446,1487,776,834],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-is","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-middle-least","tag-syria","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}