{"id":63366,"date":"2017-02-13T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T21:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63366"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:34:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T21:34:10","slug":"european-union-has-supported-isis-from-the-very-beginning-claims-syrian-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/13\/european-union-has-supported-isis-from-the-very-beginning-claims-syrian-president\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union has supported ISIS &#8216;from the very beginning&#8217;, claims Syrian president"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/search\/?s=%20Joe%20Barnes&amp;b=1\">JOE BARNES<\/a>\u00a0Courtesy \u00a0Express (UK)<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3>SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad tore into the European Union\u2019s role to the Syrian civil war, claiming they had supported terrorists from the beginning\u201d of the bloody conflict.<\/h3>\n<div id=\"componentDiv_gig_containerParent\" class=\"panel new\">\n<div class=\"publish-info\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<p>The controversial leader insisted that EU members states were actually supporting ISIS and other terrorist organisations as part of their humanitarian\u201d efforts.<\/p>\n<p>He also accused Europe of being politically weak and following their masters&#8221; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/united-states\" rel=\"tag\">United States<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Belgian broadcaster VRT in Damascus, the President al-Assad said: The EU is supporting terrorists in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/syria\" rel=\"tag\">Syria<\/a> from the very beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Under different titles; humanitarians, moderates and so on. Actually, they were supporting al-Nusra (al-Qaeda in Syria) and ISIS from the very beginning, they were extremists from the very beginning, so they cannot destroy and build at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Full Report<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/764532\/European-Union-support-ISIS-in-Syria-President-Assad\">http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/764532\/European-Union-support-ISIS-in-Syria-President-Assad<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOE BARNES\u00a0Courtesy \u00a0Express (UK) SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad tore into the European Union\u2019s role to the Syrian civil war, claiming they had supported terrorists from the beginning\u201d of the bloody conflict. The controversial leader insisted that EU members states were actually supporting ISIS and other terrorist organisations as part of their humanitarian\u201d efforts. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}