{"id":22068,"date":"2018-11-16T07:23:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22068"},"modified":"2018-11-16T07:23:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:23:59","slug":"egypt-5-arab-nations-in-live-ammunition-military-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=22068","title":{"rendered":"Egypt, 5 Arab nations in live ammunition military drills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1405436\/middle-east\" readability=\"45\">\n<p>\nMARSA MATROUH, EGYPT: Military units from Egypt and five other Arab nations have conducted war drills with live ammunition in the Egyptian desert west of Cairo.<br \/>Thursday\u2019s drills were held in the western desert around the \u201cMohammed Naguib\u201d military base near the coastal Mediterranean city of Marsa Matrouh.<br \/>The drills, codenamed \u201cArab Shield,\u201d bring together ground, naval and air units from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait. They are scheduled to end Friday.<br \/>Thursday\u2019s drills involved target practice by rocket launchers, tanks and fighter-jets.<br \/>Egypt has been holding separate drills with each of these five Arab nations in recent years, but Arab Shield marked the first time that all six allies simultaneously participated in war games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSA MATROUH, EGYPT: Military units from Egypt and five other Arab nations have conducted war drills with live ammunition in the Egyptian desert west of Cairo.Thursday\u2019s drills were held in the western desert around the \u201cMohammed Naguib\u201d military base near the coastal Mediterranean city of Marsa Matrouh.The drills, codenamed \u201cArab Shield,\u201d bring together ground, naval&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":22069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22068","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\/22068","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=22068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}