{"id":6611,"date":"2019-07-15T11:11:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6611"},"modified":"2019-07-15T11:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:11:42","slug":"qatar-opens-its-biggest-coast-guard-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6611","title":{"rendered":"Qatar opens its biggest coast guard base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar inaugurated its largest coast guard base on Sunday as a standoff between Iran and the United States continues to boost tensions in strategic Gulf waters.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani and commander of US Naval Forces in the Middle East Vice Admiral Jim Malloy attended the ceremony at the Al-Daayen naval base in Semaisima, 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Doha on Qatar&#8217;s eastern coast.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar, a key US ally in the region, is home to Washington\u2019s largest Middle East military base.<\/p>\n<p>Malloy, commander of the US Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain, said the new base was \u201ca wonderful opportunity for us to interface more strongly with the Qatari coast guard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The coastguard conducts search-and-rescue operations for persons and maritime vessels. It also guards ports, marine, industrial and oil installations in addition to providing security coverage of the waterfront<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar inaugurated its largest coast guard base on Sunday as a standoff between Iran and the United States continues to boost tensions in strategic Gulf waters. Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani and commander of US Naval Forces in the Middle East Vice Admiral Jim Malloy attended the ceremony at the Al-Daayen naval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611","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=6611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6614,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6611\/revisions\/6614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}