{"id":376179,"date":"2020-10-01T08:32:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=376179"},"modified":"2020-10-01T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T03:30:26","slug":"six-missiles-intercepted-targeting-irbil-airport-in-northern-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/six-missiles-intercepted-targeting-irbil-airport-in-northern-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Six missiles intercepted targeting Irbil Airport in northern Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six missiles targeting Irbil international airport in northern Iraq were intercepted Wednesday evening, a statement from the Kurdish Interior Ministry said, as diplomatic tensions between Washington and Baghdad mounted over a spate of rocket attacks targeting the US presence. <\/p>\n<p>The US-led coalition maintains a troop presence on a base inside the airport. The recent attacks have, until now, exclusively targeted the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of the Baghdad government, and the capital&#8217;s airport. Roadside bombs have also routinely targeted convoys carrying materials for the US-led coalition forces. <\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the missiles were intercepted at 8:30 pm and did not cause any major damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least six missiles targeting Irbil international airport in northern Iraq were intercepted Wednesday evening, a statement from the Kurdish Interior Ministry said, as diplomatic tensions between Washington and Baghdad mounted over a spate of rocket attacks targeting the US presence. The US-led coalition maintains a troop presence on a base inside the airport. The recent attacks have, until now, exclusively targeted the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of the Baghdad government, and the capital&#8217;s airport. Roadside bombs have also routinely targeted convoys carrying materials for the US-led coalition forces. According to the statement, the missiles were intercepted at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}