{"id":7260,"date":"2022-02-17T12:55:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2022-02-17T12:55:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:55:52","slug":"strikes-on-u-s-troops-show-the-need-to-withdraw-from-iraq-and-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7260","title":{"rendered":"Strikes on U.S. Troops Show the Need To Withdraw From Iraq and Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Just days into 2022, multiple military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/katyusha-rocket-hits-military-base-baghdad-airport-82083999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">came under attack<\/a>. Two drones carrying explosives were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/katyusha-rocket-hits-military-base-baghdad-airport-82083999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">destroyed<\/a>&nbsp;last Tuesday as they headed toward U.S. troops in western Iraq. The next day, rockets and indirect fire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/katyusha-rocket-hits-military-base-baghdad-airport-82083999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hit<\/a>&nbsp;bases in western Iraq and eastern Syria. And last Monday, two armed drones were&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/katyusha-rocket-hits-military-base-baghdad-airport-82083999\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">shot down<\/a>&nbsp;as they approached a facility housing American advisers at the airport in Baghdad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though there were no casualties, the Iran-backed militias behind the attacks have made clear that they will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/us-troops-come-under-rocket-fire-iraqi-military-bases-no-casualties-reported-1666048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">continue<\/a>. That alone should encourage the Biden administration to get American soldiers out of harm&#8217;s way&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qrSj7dE1l1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/01\/13\/strikes-on-u-s-troops-show-the-need-to-withdraw-from-iraq-and-syria\/\">Strikes on U.S. Troops Show the Need To Withdraw From Iraq and Syria<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Strikes on U.S. Troops Show the Need To Withdraw From Iraq and Syria&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/01\/13\/strikes-on-u-s-troops-show-the-need-to-withdraw-from-iraq-and-syria\/embed\/#?secret=G2B0JjBgxu#?secret=qrSj7dE1l1\" data-secret=\"qrSj7dE1l1\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Just days into 2022, multiple military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria came under attack. Two drones carrying explosives were destroyed last Tuesday as they headed toward U.S. troops in western Iraq. The next day, rockets and indirect fire hit bases in western Iraq and eastern Syria. And last Monday, two armed drones were shot down as they approached a facility housing American advisers at the airport in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>Though there were no casualties, the Iran-backed militias behind the attacks have made clear that they will continue. That alone should encourage the Biden administration to get American soldiers out of harm&#8217;s way&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[336,272,355,314,156,836,391,259,108,175,619],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-attack","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-terrorism","tag-troops","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7261,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/7261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}