{"id":673339,"date":"2026-01-04T13:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T13:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:28:10","slug":"uk-says-conducted-joint-attack-with-france-on-daesh-site-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673339\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Says Conducted Joint Attack With France On Daesh Site In Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRoyal Air Force aircraft have completed successful strikes against Daesh in a joint operation with France,\u201d the ministry said in a statement, using the Arabic acronym for IS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis facility had been occupied by Daesh, most likely to store weapons and explosives. The area around the facility is devoid of any civilian habitation,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry noted there was no indication the bombing north of the ancient site of Palmyra had posed any risk to civilians.<\/p>\n<p>IS was territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 but still maintains a presence, particularly in the country\u2019s vast desert.<\/p>\n<p>Palmyra, home to UNESCO-listed ancient ruins, was once controlled by the fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Washington announced a lone IS gunman in Palmyra attacked American personnel, killing two US soldiers and a US civilian.<\/p>\n<p>US forces said they struck dozens of IS targets in Syria in retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRoyal Air Force aircraft have completed successful strikes against Daesh in a joint operation with France,\u201d the ministry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-673339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115837069567217526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}