{"id":20685,"date":"2018-11-01T16:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20685"},"modified":"2018-11-01T16:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:23:01","slug":"un-over-7-million-yemeni-children-face-serious-famine-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20685","title":{"rendered":"UN: Over 7 million Yemeni children face \u2018serious\u2019 famine threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1397621\/middle-east\" readability=\"55\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Militants on Thursday killed four pro-regime fighters in Idlib province, the rebel stronghold where Russia and Turkey have agreed to set up a buffer zone, a monitor said.<br \/>The northwestern province is the last major area still outside regime control, after a string of ferocious assaults this year put most of the country back in government hands.<br \/>Regime ally Russia and rebel backer Turkey agreed to establish the buffer zone in September.<br \/>It was due to come into force in mid-October but some clauses of the plan have been delayed, as repeated clashes erupted between militants, rebels and government forces.<br \/>At dawn on Thursday, militants from Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, a faction led by former Al-Qaeda fighters, attacked a government position in the east of the province, said the Britain based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.<br \/>\u201cFour regime fighters were killed in the assault, and a member of HTS also died,\u201d said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.<br \/>\u201cThere is an ongoing exchange of artillery fire between the two parties\u201d in land that is part of the planned demilitarized zone, he added.<br \/>The agreement between Russia and Turkey to create the buffer zone was aimed at staving off a government military assault on the province.<br \/>As set out under the deal, rebel groups announced they had withdrawn heavy artillery from the zone, but militants including HTS refused to leave the area.<br \/>Artillery fire by regime forces killed at least seven civilians in Idlib on Friday last week, the Observatory said.<br \/>Syria\u2019s Foreign Minister Walid Muallem expressed dissatisfaction this week with the implementation of the agreement, and criticized Turkey for shortcomings.<br \/>\u201cTerrorists are still present in this sector with their heavy weapons,\u201d he was quoted as saying by the official SANA news agency on Monday, referring to the buffer zone.<br \/>\u201cThis indicates that Turkey does not want to respect its obligations,\u201d he added.<br \/>Syria\u2019s war has killed more than 360,000 people since it erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Militants on Thursday killed four pro-regime fighters in Idlib province, the rebel stronghold where Russia and Turkey have agreed to set up a buffer zone, a monitor said.The northwestern province is the last major area still outside regime control, after a string of ferocious assaults this year put most of the country back in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20685","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\/20685","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=20685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}