{"id":466891,"date":"2012-07-20T09:39:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T09:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mecouncil.org\/?p=466891"},"modified":"2022-09-21T06:41:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T06:41:35","slug":"syria-leading-up-to-the-day-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/syria-leading-up-to-the-day-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria: Leading Up to \u201cThe Day After\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Salman Shaikh spoke to Foreign Policy at Brookings on July 19 and described the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/2012\/07\/18\/the-deteriorating-situation-in-syria-a-discussion-among-four-brookings-middle-east-experts\/\">rapidly deteriorating situation <\/a>in Damascus. His comments follow the July 18 bombing that resulted in the deaths of Syria\u2019s defense minister and deputy defense minister and Russia and China\u2019s veto of the U.S.-backed U.N. resolution calling for further sanctions. The failure of the U.N. resolution made it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/2012\/07\/13\/the-uns-handling-of-syria-another-horrific-episode-of-ineptitude\/\">unclear what would happen<\/a> after the current\u00a0 mandate expires on July 20. (<a class=\"js-external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/middle-east-live\/2012\/jul\/20\/syria-crisis-rebels-seize-borders-live?newsfeed=true\">The U.N. Security Council has since approved a 30-day\u00a0monitoring extension.<\/a>)\u00a0Shaikh further spoke about the international community\u2019s responsibility in addressing these developments and the opposition\u2019s readiness to take control if and when the Assad regime loses power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salman Shaikh spoke to Foreign Policy at Brookings on July 19 and described the rapidly deteriorating situation in Damascus. His comments follow the July 18 bombing that resulted in the deaths of Syria\u2019s defense minister and deputy defense minister and Russia and China\u2019s veto of the U.S.-backed U.N. resolution calling for further sanctions. The failure&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/syria-leading-up-to-the-day-after\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Syria: Leading Up to \u201cThe Day After\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":466892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication_archive_type":[297],"class_list":["post-466891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","publication_archive_type-issue-brief","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466894,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466891\/revisions\/466894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466891"},{"taxonomy":"publication_archive_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mecouncil-afkar.fuegodigitalmedia.qa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_archive_type?post=466891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}