{"id":19311,"date":"2021-02-28T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T14:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=19311"},"modified":"2021-02-28T19:44:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T14:44:05","slug":"yemen-ballistic-missiles-attack-including-five-drone-strikes-thwarted-by-arab-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/19311","title":{"rendered":"Yemen Ballistic missiles attack, including five drone strikes thwarted by Arab coalition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zaka Mohsin, Riyadh,<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">Saudi Arabia was attacked by ballistic missiles, including five drone strikes, in Yemen in 24 hours. The Arab Coalition thwarted a second attack by the Iran-backed Houthi militia on Saudi Arabia just hours after it had destroyed a drone that was launched by the group towards the Kingdom\u2019s Khamis Mushait.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">The Arab Coalition intercepted and destroyed a drone launched by the Iran-backed Houthi militia towards Saudi Arabia\u2019s Khamis Mushait, the coalition\u2019s spokesperson General Turki al-Maliki said on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"box ad25 hide-in-desktop \">\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div id=\"adSlot-mpumob\">\u201cJoint Coalition Forces have intercepted and destroyed this morning (Friday) a bomb-laden UAV launched systematically and deliberately by the terrorist Houthi militia to target civilians and civilian objects in (Khamis Mushait),\u201d al-Maliki said, according to the Saudi news agency.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">\u201cThese acts of aggression to deliberately and systematically target civilians and civilian objects by the terrorist, Iran-backed Houthi militia amount to war crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">The Arab Coalition said it would continue to take the necessary measures to protect civilians in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in accordance with international humanitarian law. The terrorist group has been\u00a0ramping up its efforts to strike Saudi Arabia and several areas in Yemen\u00a0outside its control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">Iran has been backing the Houthis in\u00a0Yemen\u2019s civil war against the internationally-recognized government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-1 paragraph\" data-aa-component=\"paragraph\" data-allow-readmode=\"\">Currently, the Houthis have control of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, while the government is based in the city of Aden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zaka Mohsin, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was attacked by ballistic missiles, including five drone strikes, in Yemen in 24 hours. The Arab Coalition thwarted a second attack by the Iran-backed Houthi militia on Saudi Arabia just hours after it had destroyed a drone that was launched by the group towards the Kingdom\u2019s Khamis Mushait. The Arab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31,1473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news","category-saudi-arab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19314,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions\/19314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}