{"id":23317,"date":"2020-10-01T02:59:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/nagorno-karabakh-at-least-three-syrian-fighters-killed"},"modified":"2020-10-01T02:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:59:45","slug":"nagorno-karabakh-at-least-three-syrian-fighters-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23317","title":{"rendered":"Nagorno-Karabakh: at least three Syrian fighters killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syrians on the ground are believed to be contractors working for Turkish security companies <\/p>\n<p>At least three Syrian opposition fighters have been killed in skirmishes in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Guardian has learned, confirming earlier reports of foreign involvement in the battle between Armenian and Azerbaijan over the territory and increasing fears it may spiral into a wider regional conflict.<\/p>\n<p>As fierce combat between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces stretched into a fourth day, the presence of Syrians on the ground \u2013 believed to be contractors working for Turkish security companies \u2013 signalled a new frontier for Ankara\u2019s increasingly assertive foreign policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/30\/nagorno-karabakh-at-least-three-syrian-fighters-killed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrians on the ground are believed to be contractors working for Turkish security companies At least three Syrian opposition fighters have been killed in skirmishes in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Guardian has learned, confirming earlie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1591,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1438,1551,221,419,1014,1017,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-russia","category-syria","category-turkey","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1591"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23318,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23317\/revisions\/23318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}