{"id":3650,"date":"2014-05-19T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2014-05-19T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T06:33:10","slug":"syrian-air-force-chief-dies-in-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/05\/19\/3650\/","title":{"rendered":"Syrian air force chief dies in combat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/syriarebels-011.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>The chief of Syria&#8217;s air defence forces, General Hussein Ishaq, has been killed in combat near Damascus, a security official has told news agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The general died on Saturday of wounds suffered when rebels attacked Syrian air defence headquarters near the town of Mleiha, a key battleground southeast of the capital.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is one of the few top-ranking officers whose deaths have been announced during Syria&#8217;s three-year war.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The army&#8217;s entire arsenal and forces are deployed in Damascus&#8217;s war against rebels seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime brands the uprising as a foreign-backed &#8220;terrorist&#8221; plot.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The regime&#8217;s air defence force is to face a possible US attack, but in this war it is using its firepower against the rebels,&#8221; Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8216;Psychological&#8217; blow<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abdel Rahman called Ishaq&#8217;s death an &#8220;important psychological blow&#8221; to the regime.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more than a month, the army backed by the Lebanese Shia group, Hezbollah, has been battling to recapture Mleiha, a strategic rebel bastion.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mleiha has been under siege for more than a year, and under near-constant bombardment for more than a month.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The UK-based Observatory, an anti-government monitoring group, said that despite initial regime advances in Mleiha, the rebels have recovered ground, retaking several buildings around the central town hall.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While the army remains in control of Damascus, rebels still hold a number of towns and villages on the outskirts, despite a suffocating blockade and frequent air strikes and shelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<em><strong> Aljazeera<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief of Syria&#8217;s air defence forces, General Hussein Ishaq, has been killed in combat near Damascus, a security official has told news agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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