{"id":14426,"date":"2018-07-02T16:41:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=14426"},"modified":"2018-07-02T16:41:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T16:41:37","slug":"more-than-270000-displaced-by-southern-syria-fighting-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=14426","title":{"rendered":"More than 270,000 displaced by southern Syria fighting: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Amman, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> A regime offensive in southern Syria has forced more than 270,000 people from their homes, the United Nations said today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were expecting the number of displaced in southern Syria to reach 200,000, but it has already exceeded 270,000 people in record time,&#8221; said Mohammad Hawari, the spokesman for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Amman.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two weeks of ferocious air strikes and barrel bombing have seen regime forces retake swathes of rebel-held territory in the southern province of Daraa.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amman, Jul 2 (DIN NEWS) A regime offensive in southern Syria has forced more than 270,000 people from their homes, the United Nations said today. &#8220;We were expecting the number of displaced in southern Syria to reach 200,000, but it has already exceeded 270,000 people in record time,&#8221; said Mohammad Hawari, the spokesman for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Amman. Nearly two weeks of ferocious air strikes and barrel bombing have seen regime forces retake swathes of rebel-held territory in the southern province of Daraa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14428,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14426\/revisions\/14428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}