{"id":356885,"date":"2021-04-29T15:21:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=356885"},"modified":"2021-04-29T15:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T19:21:18","slug":"troops-of-amhara-special-force-claim-to-have-broken-the-siege-by-rebel-forces-after-strenuous-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/356885","title":{"rendered":"Troops of Amhara Special Force claim to have broken the siege by rebel forces after strenuous fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troops of the Amhara Special Force, who were surrounded by rebel forces at a place called Robit in Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara Regional State, said they broke the siege after strenuous fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Backed by the National Defense Force, the troops reportedly managed to break the siege and set themselves free from the looming attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had been defending the joint and massive attacks by the rebel groups until the National Defense Forces arrived,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cMajority members of the rebel force have been routed,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The troops had made a call to the Amhara people and government to rescue them from attacks of joint rebel forces from neighboring Qimant zone and troops of the outlawed Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troops of the Amhara Special Force, who were surrounded by rebel forces at a place called Robit in Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara Regional State, said they broke the siege after strenuous fighting. Backed by the National Defense Force, the troops reportedly managed to break the siege and set themselves free from the looming attacks. \u201cWe had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":356825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/AMHARA-SP.jpg?fit=335%2C150&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1uQd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356886,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356885\/revisions\/356886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}