{"id":21219,"date":"2018-11-05T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21219"},"modified":"2018-11-05T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T18:23:47","slug":"oman-and-britain-to-open-joint-military-training-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21219","title":{"rendered":"Oman and Britain to open joint military training base"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1399731\/middle-east\" readability=\"62\">\n<p>\nLONDON: Oman and Britain will open a joint military training base next year to help counter the activities of hostile states and extremist groups.<\/p>\n<p>\nUK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said\u00a0the base would open in March.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe made the announcement as he visited the country to observe the end of a large-scale joint military exercise involving tens of thousands of personnel practicing desert combat.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cOur relationship with Oman is built on centuries of cooperation and we are cementing that long into the future with the opening of our new joint base,\u201d Williamson said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThis has never been more important as malign activity by hostile states and violent extremist organisations seek to undermine stability and subvert the rules based order on which we all rely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nEarlier this year, Britain opened a permanent military base in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Al Saif Al Sareea 3 military exercises included 70,000 defence personnel from Oman and 5,500 soldiers, sailors, pilots and engineers from the British Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>\nMilitary commanders from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, Jordan and Egypt on Friday to attended the conclusion of Al Saif Al Sareea 3.<\/p>\n<p>\n*With Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Oman and Britain will open a joint military training base next year to help counter the activities of hostile states and extremist groups. UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson said\u00a0the base would open in March. He made the announcement as he visited the country to observe the end of a large-scale joint military exercise involving&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21219","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\/21219","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=21219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}