{"id":859551,"date":"2026-08-18T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859551\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:22:13","slug":"syria-youth-basketball-team-loses-to-bahrain-at-asia-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/859551\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria youth basketball team loses to Bahrain at Asia Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug. 18 (SANA) Syria\u2019s youth basketball team lost 92-68 to <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sananews.sy\/2026\/07\/Syria-Bahrain-discuss-regional-developments-in-Brussels-meeting.jpg\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"2326969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bahrain <\/a>on Monday in the third round of the <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/sport\/2328836\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2328836\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asia Cup<\/a> in Ahmedabad, India.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/syria\/2296935\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2296935\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Syria <\/a>defeated Lebanon 72-64 in the second round after losing its opening match 67-58 to <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/international\/2267203\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2267203\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand<\/a>, finishing third in its group at the end of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament features 16 teams divided into four groups. The winners of the four groups qualify directly for the quarterfinals, while the second- and third-placed teams compete in a qualifying playoff for places in the same round.<\/p>\n<p>R.A\/ M.F<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi, Aug. 18 (SANA) Syria\u2019s youth basketball team lost 92-68 to Bahrain on Monday in the third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-859551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}