{"id":34375,"date":"2013-09-14T17:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=34375"},"modified":"2013-09-14T17:29:27","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T13:29:27","slug":"heavy-clashes-among-syrian-rebels-near-iraq-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=34375","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Clashes Among Syrian Rebels Near Iraq Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria-iraq.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34371\" alt=\"syria-iraq\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria-iraq.jpg\" width=\"340\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria-iraq.jpg 340w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/syria-iraq-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Activists say heavy clashes between Syrian opposition fighters and Islamic extremist rebel factions near the Iraqi border have killed at least five people.<\/p>\n<p>The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group says the ongoing battles Saturday in the town of Boukamal pit the al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq against more moderate rebel brigades.<\/p>\n<p>Infighting among rebel groups, particularly between al-Qaida-linked extremist factions and more moderate units, has escalated in recent months. The violence undermines the opposition&#8217;s primary goal of overthrowing President Bashar Assad.<\/p>\n<p>It also complicates efforts by the U.S. and its allies to provide greater support to the Syrian opposition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists say heavy clashes between Syrian opposition fighters and Islamic extremist rebel factions near the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375","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=34375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}