{"id":6832,"date":"2023-09-06T19:34:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2023-09-06T19:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T14:34:38","slug":"armenia-us-forces-to-hold-joint-drills-amid-moscow-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/news\/armenia-us-forces-to-hold-joint-drills-amid-moscow-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia, US forces to hold joint drills amid Moscow tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Armenia will host joint drills with US forces next week, officials in Yerevan said Wednesday, the latest sign of the ex-Soviet republic&#8217;s drift from its traditional ally Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The announcement came a day after Moscow dismissed criticism from Armenia that Russian peacekeepers were failing to maintain order over the only route linking Armenia to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Armenian defence ministry said the Eagle Partner 2023 drills aim to &#8220;increase the level of interoperability&#8221; between Armenian and US forces in international peacekeeping missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They will be held on September 11-20 in Armenia&#8217;s Zar training centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kremlin responded saying the announcement &#8220;raises concerns&#8221; and vowed to &#8220;thoroughly analyse&#8221; the exercises.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia will host joint drills with US forces next week, officials in Yerevan said Wednesday, the latest sign of the ex-Soviet republic&#8217;s drift from its traditional ally Russia. The announcement came a day after Moscow dismissed criticism from Armenia that Russian peacekeepers were failing to maintain order over the only route linking Armenia to the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2,2621,73,2623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-russia","category-security","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832"}],"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=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}