{"id":119713,"date":"2024-12-24T16:17:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=119713"},"modified":"2024-12-24T16:48:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:48:43","slug":"protests-break-out-in-syria-after-christmas-tree-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/119713\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests break out in Syria after Christmas tree burning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Protests have broken out in Syria over the burning of a Christmas tree near the city of Hama, the BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

A video posted on social media showed masked gunmen setting fire to the tree on display in the main square of the Suqaylabiyah, a Christian-majority town in central Syria.<\/p>\n

The main Islamist faction which led the uprising that toppled President Bashar al-Assad said the men responsible for the arson were foreign fighters and had been detained and that the tree would be swiftly repaired.<\/p>\n

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across the country, demanding the new Islamist rulers protect religious minorities.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Protests have broken out in Syria over the burning of a Christmas tree near the city of Hama, the BBC writes. A video posted on social media showed masked gunmen setting fire to the tree on display in the main square of the Suqaylabiyah, a Christian-majority town in central Syria. The main Islamist faction which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":119705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,98,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}