{"id":20769,"date":"2018-11-02T06:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20769"},"modified":"2018-11-02T06:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:23:04","slug":"us-calls-for-halt-to-the-saudi-backed-war-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=20769","title":{"rendered":"US calls for halt to the Saudi-backed war in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"83\">\n<p>Enough is enough. That&#8217;s the message from the United States to the warring parties in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Washington wants a halt to more than three years of combat between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-UAE-led coalition supporting Yemeni government troops.<\/p>\n<p>James Mattis, the US defence secretary, is calling for a ceasefire by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations is welcoming the US appeal to replace combat with compromise.<\/p>\n<p>But Washington&#8217;s message to Saudi and Emirati allies could fall on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of reinforcements have been sent this week to the rebel-held city of Hodeidah &#8211; the major port for the massive amounts of food and aid needed to keep millions of Yemenis from starving to death.<\/p>\n<p>But with many failed peace efforts in the past, will this time be any different?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Richelle Carey<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eric Eikenberry &#8211; Yemen Peace Project<\/p>\n<p>Hussain Albukhaiti &#8211; Yemen affairs specialist<\/p>\n<p>Sigurd Neubauer &#8211; Middle East specialist<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough is enough. That&#8217;s the message from the United States to the warring parties in Yemen. Washington wants a halt to more than three years of combat between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-UAE-led coalition supporting Yemeni government troops. James Mattis, the US defence secretary, is calling for a ceasefire by the end of the month.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20769","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\/20769","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=20769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}