{"id":31835,"date":"2013-09-03T23:35:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=31835"},"modified":"2013-09-03T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T19:35:10","slug":"tensions-rise-in-the-mediterranean-as-u-s-and-israel-test-fire-two-missiles-into-the-sea-while-america-considers-attack-on-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=31835","title":{"rendered":"Tensions rise in the Mediterranean as U.S. and Israel test fire two missiles into the sea while America considers attack on Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Israel-and-the-U.S.-carried-out-a-joint-missile-test.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-31833\" alt=\"Israel and the U.S. carried out a joint missile test\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Israel-and-the-U.S.-carried-out-a-joint-missile-test.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Israel-and-the-U.S.-carried-out-a-joint-missile-test.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Israel-and-the-U.S.-carried-out-a-joint-missile-test-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a>Israel and the U.S. today carried out a joint missile test in the Mediterranean, firing two rockets which later fell into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>News of the secret drill came this morning when the Russian defence ministry reporting that a radar system had detected the launch of two &#8216;ballistic objects&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Later today, Israel&#8217;s defence ministry revealed that it had conducted a test of missile designed to be used as a target in an anti-missile system funded by the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian official said that the launch was detected at 6.16am GMT by an early warning station near the Black Sea, designed to detect missiles fired from Europe and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the U.S. Navy said that American forces did not fire any missiles, but did not confirm whether or not the U.S. was involved with the Israeli operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;No missiles were fired from U.S. ships in the Mediterranean,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials within Syria said there were no signs of any missile attacks in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel and the U.S. today carried out a joint missile test in the Mediterranean, firing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":31833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-usa","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}