{"id":13913,"date":"2018-09-05T05:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T05:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2018-09-05T05:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T05:24:48","slug":"yemen-foes-head-to-peace-talks-as-ugly-war-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13913","title":{"rendered":"Yemen foes head to peace talks as \u2018ugly war\u2019 rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1366941\/middle-east\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Yemen\u2019s warring parties meet in Geneva Thursday for a new round of peace talks with little hope of a breakthrough in an \u201cugly war\u201d between the government and Houthi militias linked to Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey are the first public meetings between the government of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Yemen\u2019s Houthi militias since 2016, when 108 days of negotiations in Kuwait failed to broker a power-sharing deal.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut the chance of face-to-face sitdowns between Hadi\u2019s delegation and the militias in Geneva are slim to none, Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Yamani told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe talks, overseen by UN envoy Martin Griffiths, are aimed at charting a path toward reviving formal UN-backed negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey will likely focus on a prisoner exchange deal and the fate of embattled Hodeida, the port city at the frontline of the war.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThis war has been and remains an ugly war,\u201d said Anwar Gargash, UAE minister of state for foreign affairs, whose country is the senior partner in the coalition backing Hadi. \u201cWe have seen civilians shot at, bombed, killed and unfortunately&#8230; this is part of any confrontation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, a boat carrying at least 150 African migrants capsized off a southern Yemeni province, killing at least 30 people including five women and children.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Yemen\u2019s warring parties meet in Geneva Thursday for a new round of peace talks with little hope of a breakthrough in an \u201cugly war\u201d between the government and Houthi militias linked to Iran. They are the first public meetings between the government of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and Yemen\u2019s Houthi militias since 2016, when&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13913","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\/13913","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=13913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}