{"id":2513,"date":"2015-05-26T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2015-05-26T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T22:03:07","slug":"yemens-houthi-militants-and-allies-capture-saudi-military-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/yemens-houthi-militants-and-allies-capture-saudi-military-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen&#8217;s Houthi militants and allies capture Saudi military base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fighters from Yemen\u2019s Houthi movement together with members of the allied popular resistance committees have taken control of a Saudi military base in retaliation to Riyadh&#8217;s ongoing air campaign against Yemen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Houthi\u00a0fighters and forces of the popular committees recaptured the base in the al-Makhrouq region of the\u00a0southwestern Saudi province of Najran during an operation late Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several military equipment and vehicles were destroyed in the operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The development comes as the Yemeni\u00a0fighters and army allies attacked a Saudi military base near the border area of Tuwayliq in Sa\u2019ada Province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the latest in a series of attacks by Houthi\u00a0as well as tribal forces against Saudi border positions over the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Yemeni army, backed by popular committee forces, also\u00a0on Monday destroyed four Saudi tanks after storming a base in Saudi Arabia\u2019s southwestern city of Jizan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yemenis say the attacks are in retaliation for Saudi airstrikes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday that a Saudi security officer was killed when &#8220;military missiles from inside Yemen&#8221; hit their location, leaving at least three others\u00a0injured.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and\u00a0Arab allies continues\u00a0fierce air campaign against Yemen\u2019s Shiite Houthi group.The Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes\u00a0on March 25, with the aim of toppling the Houthi government in Yemen, which it views as loyal to Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fighters from Yemen\u2019s Houthi movement together with members of the allied popular resistance committees have taken control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2517,"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":[16,30,356,15,5,101,114],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","tag-airstrike","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-militants","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\/05\/Houthi-Militants.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-Ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","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=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}