{"id":26262,"date":"2018-12-20T12:31:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26262"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:31:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:31:04","slug":"turkey-says-syrian-kurdish-militants-will-be-buried-in-ditches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26262","title":{"rendered":"Turkey says Syrian Kurdish militants will be buried in ditches"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDUBAI: The battleground of Hodeidah was calm on Thursday after a minor exchange of fire between the warring parties overnight, a pro-government official said.<\/p>\n

\nMilitary officials and residents have said that there has been intermittent fighting between loyalists – backed by a Saudi-led coalition – and the Iran-aligned Houthis since a truce in the lifeline Red Sea port city and its surroundings came into force on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\nA pro-government official told AFP that four loyalists were wounded on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cThe exchange of fire lasted for about half an hour, and there is uneasy calm this morning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nThe official added there has been intermittent fighting on a number of battlefronts in Hodeidah province, including the districts of Hays and Al-Tuhayta.<\/p>\n

\nThe pro-government forces and the Houthi militia exchanged accusations on Thursday that the other side was violating the ceasefire agreement reached at talks in Sweden earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\nUN observers are due in Yemen to head up monitoring teams made up of government and Houthi representatives tasked with overseeing the implementation of the UN-brokered ceasefire, under the auspices of a Redeployment Coordination Committee.<\/p>\n

\nThe UN chair of that committee, Patrick Cammaert, convened its first meeting by video conference from New York on Wednesday \u201cto discuss the general outlines of its work, including agreement of a code of conduct\u201d, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.<\/p>\n

\nUN chief Antonio Guterres was \u201cbreathing down the neck\u201d of officials to make sure the UN observers are deployed as soon as possible, Dujarric said.<\/p>\n

\nHe added that Cammaert will head on Thursday to Jordan\u2019s capital Amman, from where he will travel to the Yemeni capital Sanaa and Hodeida.<\/p>\n

\nBrigadier Ahmed Al-Kokbani, a Yemeni government representative on the committee, told AFP that the observers\u2019 meeting with Cammaert covered the bases of the committee\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cCammaert asked members of the team to work diligently in calming the situation and to reject any violations (of the truce deal),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nThe Saudi-led coalition warned Wednesday that the hard-won ceasefire agreement will collapse if Houthi violations persist and the United Nations does not intervene.<\/p>\n

\nThe Redeployment Coordination Committee\u2019s observers are due to oversee the withdrawal of the warring parties from Hodeidah, including a militia pullout from the city\u2019s docks that are the point of entry for 80 percent of Yemeni imports and nearly all UN-supervised humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n

\nThe committee chair is expected to report to the Security Council on a weekly basis as part of a major diplomatic push that is seen as the best chance yet to end the four-year conflict.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DUBAI: The battleground of Hodeidah was calm on Thursday after a minor exchange of fire between the warring parties overnight, a pro-government official said. Military officials and residents have said that there has been intermittent fighting between loyalists – backed by a Saudi-led coalition – and the Iran-aligned Houthis since a truce in the lifeline…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26262","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\/26262","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=26262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}