{"id":41165,"date":"2019-10-12T05:22:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41165"},"modified":"2019-10-12T05:22:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:22:53","slug":"yemeni-minister-hails-saudi-backing-against-houthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41165","title":{"rendered":"Yemeni minister hails Saudi backing against Houthis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"43\">\n<p>\nWASHINGTON: US troops near the northern Syrian border came under artillery fire from Turkish positions on Friday, a Pentagon spokesman said, warning that the US was prepared to meet aggression with \u201cimmediate defensive action.\u201d<br \/>The US military confirmed an explosion around 9.00pm (1800 GMT) within a few hundred meters of its post near the town of Kobani, in an area \u201cknown by the Turks to have US forces present.\u201d<br \/>\u201cAll US troops are accounted for with no injuries. US forces have not withdrawn from Kobani,\u201d Navy captain Brook DeWalt said in a statement.<br \/>US President Donald Trump has faced a firestorm of criticism for appearing to greenlight Turkey\u2019s offensive into northeastern Syria, which began after Trump ordered US troops to pull back from the border.<br \/>Turkey is targeting the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a key US ally in the five-year battle to crush the Daesh group. The SDF lost 11,000 fighters in the US-led campaign.<br \/>Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said earlier Friday Trump had authorized \u2014 but not yet activated \u2014 \u201cvery significant new sanctions\u201d to dissuade Turkey from further offensive military action.<br \/>\u201cThe United States remains opposed to the Turkish military move into Syria and especially objects to Turkish operations outside the security mechanism zone and in areas where the Turks know US forces are present,\u201d DeWalt added.<br \/>\u201cThe US demands that Turkey avoid actions that could result in immediate defensive action.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: US troops near the northern Syrian border came under artillery fire from Turkish positions on Friday, a Pentagon spokesman said, warning that the US was prepared to meet aggression with \u201cimmediate defensive action.\u201dThe US military confirmed an explosion around 9.00pm (1800 GMT) within a few hundred meters of its post near the town of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41165","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\/41165","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=41165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}