{"id":58269,"date":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2022\/11\/14\/syria-israel-fires-missiles-at-homs-province-war-monitor-says\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T00:00:00","slug":"syria-israel-fires-missiles-at-homs-province-war-monitor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2022\/11\/14\/syria-israel-fires-missiles-at-homs-province-war-monitor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Israel fires missiles at Homs province, war monitor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israel fired missiles toward Syria&#39;s central province of Homs on Sunday evening, targeting an airbase and positions of Iran-backed fighters, an opposition war monitor reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in the UK, said strong explosions were heard when four Israeli missiles hit the Shayrat airbase in Homs province.<\/p>\n<p>It said the missile attack targeted the positions of Iran-backed fighters in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Official Syrian regime news agency SANA said air defences were responding to &quot;hostile targets&quot; over Homs province, adding that some missiles were shot down. It gave no further details.<\/p>\n<p>\nSyrian TV said &quot;an Israeli aggression&quot; was targeting the province, adding that air defences were responding to the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes occurred after Israeli warplanes were seen flying over neighboring Lebanon whose airspace Israeli air forces sometimes cross to carry out attacks on Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside regime-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has acknowledged, however, that it targets bases of Iran-allied militant groups, such as Lebanon&#39;s Hezbollah, which has sent thousands of fighters to support Syrian regime President Bashar Al-Assad&#39;s forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said strong explosions were heard when four Israeli missiles hit the Shayrat airbase in Homs province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}