{"id":216505,"date":"2026-03-31T22:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216505"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:48:27","slug":"israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=216505","title":{"rendered":"Israel strikes central Beirut as war expands, World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI\/TEL AVIV\/BEIRUT &#8211; Israeli warplanes hit central Beirut in the early hours of Wednesday (March 18), destroying apartment buildings in some of the most intense airstrikes on the centre of the Lebanese capital for decades, an expansion of the US-Israeli war against Iran. A day after killing Iran&#8217;s powerful security chief Ali Larijani in the<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/world\/israel-strikes-central-beirut-war-expands\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI\/TEL AVIV\/BEIRUT &#8211; Israeli warplanes hit central Beirut in the early hours of Wednesday (March<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/216505-israel-strikes-central-beirut-as-war-expands-world-news-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/216506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}