{"id":41007,"date":"2019-09-29T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T09:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41007"},"modified":"2019-09-29T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T09:22:42","slug":"iraqs-removal-of-counterterrorism-chief-sparks-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41007","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s removal of counterterrorism chief sparks controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"41\">\n<p>\nUNITED NATIONS: Yemen\u2019s new foreign minister vowed on Saturday that the government will \u201cend any attempt to tear apart our homeland.\u201d<br \/>He sharply criticized Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who control much of the country\u2019s north and the United Arab Emirates, which supports forces seeking their own nation in the south.<br \/>Mohammed Abdullah Al-Hadrami called Iran \u201cthe main sponsor of terrorism throughout the world\u201d and urged an end to \u201cthis Iranian-Houthi coup d\u2019etat in Yemen.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"image\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/userimages\/20\/houthis_1.jpg\" width=\"630\"><figcaption>\nHouthi followers attend a gathering to receive food supplies from tribesmen in Sanaa on September 21, 2019. (REUTERS\/Khaled Abdullah\/File Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nHe thanked Saudi Arabia for helping his internationally recognized government resist Houthi \u201cmilitias who are dreaming of a theocracy.\u201d<br \/>Al-Hadrami told the UN General Assembly Saturday that attacks he said were carried out by southern separatists have also \u201cundermined the stability of our homeland.\u201d<br \/>A Saudi-led coalition that included the UAE has been fighting the Houthis since 2015 on behalf of the internationally recognized government. The civil war has killed tens of thousands of people and sparked the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis in the Arab world\u2019s most impoverished country.<br \/>Al-Hadrami said he hopes that \u201cwe will meet next year at a time when peace will have reigned in Yemen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS: Yemen\u2019s new foreign minister vowed on Saturday that the government will \u201cend any attempt to tear apart our homeland.\u201dHe sharply criticized Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who control much of the country\u2019s north and the United Arab Emirates, which supports forces seeking their own nation in the south.Mohammed Abdullah Al-Hadrami called Iran \u201cthe main sponsor&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41007","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\/41007","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=41007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}