{"id":12162,"date":"2018-08-20T13:24:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12162"},"modified":"2018-08-20T13:24:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T13:24:31","slug":"yemeni-army-takes-control-of-strategic-mountains-in-al-malagim-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=12162","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni army takes control of strategic mountains in Al-Malagim front"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1359306\/middle-east\" readability=\"68\">\n<p>\nJEDDAH: The Yemeni National Army, supported by the Saudi-led coalition, took full control on Monday, of the most important mountains in the strategic Al-Bayad mountain range in Al-Malagim front east of Al-Bayda governorate, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.<\/p>\n<p>\nLieut. Col. Abdul Wahab Buhaibeh, assistant commander of Yemeni forces in Bihan, confirmed that the army has reestablished control over the most important mountains in the strategic Al-Bayad mountain range after clashing with the Houthi militia and causing them heavy losses.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a press statement published by the Yemeni armed forces\u2019 website, 26Sep.Net, Buhaibeh said: \u201cThe army has taken control of approximately 18 square kilometers of the Al-Malagim front as well as the strategic Dhahr Al-Bayad junction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said the Houthi militia suffered heavy losses during the two-day clashes, including more than 26 deaths, dozens of injured militants, and a number of prisoners. The Yemeni army also seized the combat vehicles and machines used by the Houthi militia.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Yemeni National Army forces launched last Saturday a large-scale military operation to fully liberate Al-Malagim district and, until today, managed to advance approximately 60 kilometers after controlling Al-Fadhatain mountains, Al-Qard, Al-Ashar district, Al-Kibar mountains, and large parts of the Al-Bayad mountain range.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JEDDAH: The Yemeni National Army, supported by the Saudi-led coalition, took full control on Monday, of the most important mountains in the strategic Al-Bayad mountain range in Al-Malagim front east of Al-Bayda governorate, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. Lieut. Col. Abdul Wahab Buhaibeh, assistant commander of Yemeni forces in Bihan, confirmed that the army&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}