{"id":159908,"date":"2018-04-14T03:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T07:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159908"},"modified":"2018-04-14T03:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T07:22:36","slug":"saudi-arabia-intercepts-new-missile-fired-by-yemen-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/14\/saudi-arabia-intercepts-new-missile-fired-by-yemen-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia intercepts new missile fired by Yemen rebels"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111218\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/750px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-111218\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/750px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg_.png\" alt=\"A Vernon, New Jersey-based group representing Sept. 11 families and survivors said there is plenty of evidence for the judge to consider.  (Photo by wikimedia commons, CC0)\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/750px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg_.png 750w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/750px-Flag_of_Saudi_Arabia.svg_-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Wednesday, Saudi air defense forces intercepted three ballistic missiles over Saudi Arabia (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=27000408\">Photo by Wikimedia Commons, CC0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>RIYADH &#8212;<\/strong>\u00a0Saudi air defense forces intercepted on Thursday evening another ballistic missile over the border city of Jazan, which was fired by the Houthi militia, Al Arabiya local news reported.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Saudi air defense forces intercepted three ballistic missiles over Saudi Arabia, including one that targeted the capital Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>The joint forces command of the Saudi-led coalition warned the Iranian-backed Houthi militias of targeting civilian locations or civilians and said that such terrorist acts would be firmly retaliated.<\/p>\n<p>The joint forces command vowed to take all deterrent measures in accordance with international humanitarian law and its customary rules.<\/p>\n<p>The intensity of such attack has increased since the completion of the third year of the coalition&#8217;s war in Yemen against Houthis in March. The coalition has been accusing Iran of standing behind the militias through weapons supply and other supports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH &#8212;\u00a0Saudi air defense forces intercepted on Thursday evening another ballistic missile over the border city of Jazan, which was &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":111218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[49662,2396,2108],"class_list":["post-159908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-iranian-backed-houthi-militias","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-yemen","mauthors-xinhua","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}