{"id":23391,"date":"2020-10-03T02:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/02\/syrian-recruit-describes-role-of-foreign-fighters-in-nagorno-karabakh"},"modified":"2020-10-03T02:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T17:31:38","slug":"syrian-recruit-describes-role-of-foreign-fighters-in-nagorno-karabakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23391","title":{"rendered":"Syrian recruit describes role of foreign fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deployment of 1,000 Syrians to Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict shows Ankara\u2019s rise in region<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/28\/syrian-rebel-fighters-prepare-to-deploy-to-azerbaijan-in-sign-of-turkeys-ambition\">Syrian<\/a> fighter sent into combat with Azerbaijani forces in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh has detailed the extent of foreign involvement in the new conflict with Armenia that, after six days of clashes, is taking on a regional dimension.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/28\/syrian-rebel-fighters-prepare-to-deploy-to-azerbaijan-in-sign-of-turkeys-ambition\">deployment of 1,000 Syrian fighters working for a private Turkish security firm<\/a>, as well as Ankara\u2019s outspoken support for Azerbaijan in the worst fighting between the two neighbours since 1994, confirms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/turkey\">Turkey\u2019s<\/a> rise as a regional power \u2013 and threatens to upset the fragile status quo in the Caucasus, long seen as Russia\u2019s domain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/02\/syrian-recruit-describes-role-of-foreign-fighters-in-nagorno-karabakh\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deployment of 1,000 Syrians to Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict shows Ankara\u2019s rise in regionA Syrian fighter sent into combat with Azerbaijani forces in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh has detailed the extent of foreign involvement in the new confl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1342,"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":[1438,1551,221,419,1017,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armenia","category-azerbaijan","category-europe","category-russia","category-turkey","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23391","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\/1342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23392,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23391\/revisions\/23392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}