{"id":28539,"date":"2019-01-10T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28539"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T09:22:19","slug":"houthi-drone-attack-hits-military-base-in-yemen-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28539","title":{"rendered":"Houthi drone attack hits military base in Yemen: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"83.0375\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/houthis.html\">Houthi<\/a> drone attack has hit a Yemeni government military parade in Lahij Province, killing several, according to Houthi media and Sky News Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The attack on the airbase in southern town of al-Anad on Thursday reportedly wounded dozens of military personnel, including the Yemeni army chief of staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Six people were killed in the raid, sources at a local hospital told AFP news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Malik Al-Houthi, leader of the Houthi group, announced the strategy of using ballistic missiles and drones in 2017. The group is at war with a Saudi-UAE-led coalition which began its military campaign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/yemen.html\">Yemen<\/a> in March 2015, after the Houthis overran the capital, Sanaa, in 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>The Houthis claim to possess five different drone models according to an infographic on their official Telegram channel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In November, the rebels said they were halting drone and missile attacks, but tensions have risen recently over how to implement a UN-sponsored peace deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Houthi drone attack has hit a Yemeni government military parade in Lahij Province, killing several, according to Houthi media and Sky News Arabia. The attack on the airbase in southern town of al-Anad on Thursday reportedly wounded dozens of military personnel, including the Yemeni army chief of staff.\u00a0 Six people were killed in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28539","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\/28539","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=28539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}