{"id":33087,"date":"2024-09-20T23:36:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=33087"},"modified":"2024-09-20T23:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T20:36:44","slug":"syrian-observatory-iraqi-faction-leader-killed-near-damascus-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/20\/syrian-observatory-iraqi-faction-leader-killed-near-damascus-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Observatory: Iraqi faction leader killed near Damascus airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><b>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/b><br \/>\nAn Iraqi Hezbollah commander was killed in a drone strike, likely carried out by Israel, while another member of the faction was wounded, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.<br \/>\nThe drone reportedly targeted the commander&#8217;s vehicle early Friday on the road to Damascus International Airport.<br \/>\nEyewitnesses told the Observatory that the vehicle was on fire, and the commander had a military base and a rest house in the area. It was unclear if he had left the base for the rest house or if his destination was elsewhere.<br \/>\nThe source noted that &#8220;no loud explosions were heard like those from warplane raids, indicating that it was a precise missile strike targeting his vehicle in a precise assassination.&#8221; The area where the strike occurred is home to several military bases for Iraqi, Lebanese, and Syrian Hezbollah, as well as Iranian militias controlling farms in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies An Iraqi Hezbollah commander was killed in a drone strike, likely carried out by Israel, while another member of the faction was wounded, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The drone reportedly targeted the commander&#8217;s vehicle early Friday on the road to Damascus International Airport. Eyewitnesses told the Observatory &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33088,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33087\/revisions\/33088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}