{"id":75632,"date":"2020-02-20T22:45:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T03:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/?p=75632"},"modified":"2021-09-01T22:21:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T02:21:50","slug":"hill-gop-lawmaker-makes-unannounced-trip-northeastern-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2020\/02\/20\/hill-gop-lawmaker-makes-unannounced-trip-northeastern-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: GOP lawmaker makes unannounced trip to northeastern Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Hill: GOP lawmaker makes unannounced trip to northeastern Syria<\/h1>\n<p><em>20 February 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p>USA<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/syria_022020.jpg\" alt=\"syria_022020\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/syria_022020.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/syria_022020-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A Republican lawmaker made an unannounced trip to Syria this past week, meeting with Kurdish fighters allied with the U.S. against ISIS and American aid workers helping civilians caught in the crossfire of Turkey\u2019s offensive into the region.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Rep.\u00a0Ralph Abraham\u00a0(R-La.), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, traveled to northeastern Syria beginning last week for a multiday tour, visiting front-line positions where Kurdish forces trade fire daily with Turkish-backed fighters despite an October cease-fire agreement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;The purpose of my trip was to express my deep concerns for the safety of Christians and other persecuted minorities in the region as well as my support for self-governance among the Kurds,&#8221;\u00a0Abraham wrote in an email to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/483835-gop-lawmaker-makes-unannounced-trip-to-northeastern-syria\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\nvar post=eval({\"id\":75632,\"title\":\"The Hill: GOP lawmaker makes unannounced trip to northeastern Syria\",\"subject\":\"FBR: The Hill: GOP lawmaker makes unannounced trip to northeastern Syria\",\"admin_email\":\"info@freeburmarangers.org\",\"admin_name\":\"FBR\"});\n<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: GOP lawmaker makes unannounced trip to northeastern Syria 20 February 2020 USA From the article: A Republican lawmaker made an unannounced trip to Syria this past week, meeting with Kurdish fighters allied with the U.S. against ISIS and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/2020\/02\/20\/hill-gop-lawmaker-makes-unannounced-trip-northeastern-syria\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":75633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,53,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-iraq-reports","category-syria-reports"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.7.8","language":"my","enabled_languages":["en","my"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"my":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75634,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75632\/revisions\/75634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.freeburmarangers.org\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}