{"id":6656,"date":"2023-08-29T18:30:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2023-08-29T18:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:30:49","slug":"french-soldier-killed-in-iraq-anti-terror-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/french-soldier-killed-in-iraq-anti-terror-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"French soldier killed in Iraq &#8216;anti-terror&#8217; operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A member of an elite French commando unit was killed Monday in Iraq while &#8220;supporting an Iraqi unit in an anti-terrorist operation&#8221;, French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s office said Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sergeant Nicolas Mazier, an air force paratrooper, &#8220;fell in combat while carrying out his mission&#8221;, the Elysee Palace said in a statement, expressing Macron&#8217;s &#8220;profound respect&#8221; for his &#8220;sacrifice&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said other soldiers from the unit were also wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An Iraqi security source in northeastern Kirkuk said that Iraqi and French troops were ambushed by Islamic State group jihadists late Monday in neighbouring Salah al-Din province.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of an elite French commando unit was killed Monday in Iraq while &#8220;supporting an Iraqi unit in an anti-terrorist operation&#8221;, French President Emmanuel Macron&#8217;s office said Tuesday. Sergeant Nicolas Mazier, an air force paratrooper, &#8220;fell in combat while carrying out his mission&#8221;, the Elysee Palace said in a statement, expressing Macron&#8217;s &#8220;profound respect&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}