{"id":49007,"date":"2014-10-21T09:45:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T09:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=dded35a16c8a9ea1d15b27ce9535b9c1"},"modified":"2014-10-21T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T09:45:26","slug":"news-story-surveillance-missions-over-syria-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=49007","title":{"rendered":"News story: Surveillance missions over Syria confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>UK Reaper remotely piloted aircraft systems and Rivet Joint aircraft will be authorised to fly surveillance missions over Syria. <\/p>\n<p>The deployment will see the Royal Air Force aircraft gathering intelligence as the UK ramps up efforts to protect our national interests from the terrorist threat emanating the country. <\/p>\n<p>Reapers are not authorised to use weapons in Syria and, alongside Rivet Joint, will provide vital situational awareness making it an invaluable asset to the coalition allies who are combating <abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/isil-uk-government-response\"><abbr title=\"Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant\">ISIL<\/abbr>: UK government response<\/a> page on GOV.UK<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Secretary has announced that UK Reaper and Rivet Joint aircraft will fly surveillance missions over Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}