{"id":10751,"date":"2019-08-22T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2019-08-22T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T07:06:48","slug":"arab-coalition-forces-shoot-down-two-saudi-bound-houthi-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/08\/22\/arab-coalition-forces-shoot-down-two-saudi-bound-houthi-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Coalition Forces shoot down two Saudi-bound Houthi drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab Coalition Forces on Thursday morning intercepted and shot down two drones launched by the Houthi militia from Yemen&#8217;s Amran province towards Khamis Mushait in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi Press Agency, SPA, quoted the Coalition Spokesman Colonel Turki Al Maliki as saying that &#8220;all attempts by the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia to launch drones are doomed to fail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the Coalition follows rules of engagement to prevent civilian casualties when responding to such threats, adding that the &#8220;repeated attempts reflect the despair of the terrorist militia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Al Maliki added that by resorting to misleading media reporting of its false successes, further confirms the magnitude of losses the militia is suffering and the popular discontent its facing.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded by stressing that the Joint Forces Command of the Coalition continues to implement deterrent measures against the terrorist militia to &#8220;neutralise and destroy these capabilities strictly and in accordance with international humanitarian law.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arab Coalition Forces on Thursday morning intercepted and shot down two drones launched by the Houthi militia from Yemen&#8217;s Amran province towards Khamis Mushait in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Press Agency, SPA, quoted the Coalition Spokesman Colonel Turki Al Maliki as saying that &#8220;all attempts by the Iranian-backed terrorist Houthi militia to launch drones &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10753,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions\/10753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}