{"id":34559,"date":"2019-07-25T09:51:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T01:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=34559"},"modified":"2019-07-25T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T01:58:25","slug":"pro-government-forces-seize-strategic-sites-from-houthis-in-southern-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=34559","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Government Forces Seize Strategic Sites From Houthis In Southern Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ADEN, Yemen, July 25 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; Forces loyal to the Yemeni government, announced seizure of strategic military sites from the Houthis in the province of Dhalea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Defence Ministry, &#8220;The armed forces, backed by local fighters, liberated a number of strategic military sites near Qataba, in Dhalea&#8217;s northern part, after intense battles.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;More than 30 Houthis, including the field military commanders of the militia, were killed by the armed forces,&#8221; the website said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of armoured vehicles and large quantities of weapons, including various types of ammunition, were recovered by the pro-government armed forces, after the Houthis&#8217; withdrawal, the statement added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No information, however, was given about casualties among pro-government forces, following the battles. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Houthi military authorities, based in Sanaa, made no comments regarding the pro-government reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pro-government forces managed to make on-ground advancement and managed to expel the Houthis out from several villages located in Dhalea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In April, the Iranian-allied Houthi fighters launched a series of intense armed attacks on the positions of the government forces and succeeded in seizing the district of Al Husha in the west of Dhalea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The areas in the north and west of Dhalea, 138 km north of Aden, have been witnessing non-stop fighting between government forces and Houthi fighters.&#8211; NNN-SABA <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADEN, Yemen, July 25 (NNN-SABA) &#8211; Forces loyal to the Yemeni government, announced seizure of strategic military sites from the Houthis in the province of Dhalea. According to the Defence Ministry, &#8220;The armed forces, backed by local fighters, liberated a number of strategic military sites near Qataba, in Dhalea&#8217;s northern part, after intense battles.&#8221; &#8220;More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":34561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34559"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}