{"id":1929,"date":"2015-04-18T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T21:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2015-04-18T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T21:22:24","slug":"saudi-soldier-killed-in-yemen-border-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/saudi-soldier-killed-in-yemen-border-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi soldier killed in Yemen border clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>At least one Saudi soldier has been killed in border clashes with Yemeni tribesmen in a southwestern region of the kingdom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri told reporters there was continuous fighting from Friday afternoon until late that night along the frontier in the southwestern Saudi region of Najran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;One of our Saudi soldiers was killed,&#8221; Assiri said, adding that the coalition has carried out more than 2,000 aerial sorties during the three-week campaign.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429390917785_1135\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Western diplomats have said Saudi warplanes conducted most of the coalition strikes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429390917785_1179\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Three other Saudi soldiers and three members of the kingdom&#8217;s Border Guard force have also been killed in clashes along the southwestern frontier.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-related\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n<div class=\"cta-overlay\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the seventh Saudi soldier killed since Riyadh began air campaign\u00a0against its southern neighbor more than three weeks ago.<\/div>\n<div class=\"cta-overlay\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cta-overlay\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia has deployed more troops and weaponry near its frontline with its ground forces shelling Yemen\u2019s border regions over the past weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This comes as popular committees backed by Ansarullah fighters of the Houthi movement have made fresh gains in Yemen\u2019s southern port city of Aden and the southern province of Abyan.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429391428309_991\">The United Nations says hundreds of civilians have died in the fighting which has left food, water and other essentials in short supply.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429391428309_983\">Aid has only trickled into Yemen, largely because of restrictions imposed by the coalition on its airspace and ports.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429391428309_985\">Assiri said two cargo loads of relief supplies and food donated by Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have reached Aden and Yemen&#8217;s Red Sea city of Hodeida, via Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429391428309_997\">&#8220;Other cargos will follow in the coming days,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will be speaking about a sea bridge to get aid to the Yemeni people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1429391428309_1002\">He reiterated that the movement of ships or aircraft must be coordinated with the coalition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">TN\/YN\/MSM\/NT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least one Saudi soldier has been killed in border clashes with Yemeni tribesmen in a southwestern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[75,6,356,5,101,114],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-conflict","tag-defense","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Saudi-Soldier-border.jpg?fit=650%2C335&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-v7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1933,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions\/1933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}