{"id":2578,"date":"2000-12-31T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2000-12-31T23:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2013-04-24T18:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T18:46:30","slug":"iraq-railway-news-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/iraq-railway-news-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq railway news 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>2000-10-13 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metimes.com\/2K\/issue2000-41\/bus\/iraq_ready_for.htm\">Iraq ready for Turkey rail link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>2000-09 <q>Rail services between Iraq and Syria resumed on August 1 after a break of 19 years. Reopening of the border at El Yaroubieh and restoration of Mosul &#8211; Aleppo services followed discussions between new Syrian President Bachar el Assad and Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed al Sahaf in July.<\/q> <cite>Railway Gazette International<\/cite> September 2000.<\/li>\n<li>2000-08-04 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/iraq-report\/2000\/08\/26-040800.html\">SYRIA-IRAQ RAIL LINK TO REOPEN.<\/a> Rail service between Syria and Iraq is to resume on 11 August, AFP reported. Service was suspended in 1981.<\/li>\n<li>2000-01-14 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabicnews.com\/ansub\/Daily\/Day\/000114\/2000011447.html\">Severe lack of railway equipment in Iraq.<\/a> <q>An Iraqi statement issued today said that the railway system in the country suffers from a severe lack of equipment and spare parts, which negatively effects the interior transportation movement, especially transferring supplies exported to Iraq according to agreements with the UN.<\/q><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2000-10-13 Iraq ready for Turkey rail link 2000-09 Rail services between Iraq and Syria resumed on August 1 after a break of 19 years. Reopening of the border at El Yaroubieh and restoration of Mosul &#8211; Aleppo services followed discussions between new Syrian President Bachar el Assad and Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed al Sahaf in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/iraq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}