{"id":31751,"date":"2018-09-05T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=31751"},"modified":"2018-09-05T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T23:02:17","slug":"the-battle-for-idlib-al-qaedas-last-stand-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/05\/the-battle-for-idlib-al-qaedas-last-stand-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle for Idlib: Al-Qaeda&#8217;s Last Stand in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley joined her boss, President Trump, in warning the Syrian government not to re-take the last bit of Syrian territory controlled by rebels. The problem is President Trump&#8217;s own Special Envoy for the fight against ISIS has confirmed that this region, Idlib, is controlled by al-Qaeda. The neocons are itching to have some more bombs lobbed at the Syrian government and have all but called for a false flag by the rebels to provide cover. How will the &#8220;last battle&#8221; play out? Join today&#8217;s Ron Paul Liberty Report for our take:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RzB_Hls5YGM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &amp; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley joined her boss, President Trump, in warning the Syrian government not to re-take the last bit of Syrian territory controlled by rebels. The problem is President Trump&#8217;s own Special Envoy for the fight against ISIS has confirmed that this region, Idlib, is controlled by al-Qaeda. The neocons are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31753,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31751\/revisions\/31753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31751"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=31751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}