{"id":1608,"date":"2015-03-25T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2015-03-25T18:05:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:05:29","slug":"yemen-crisis-houthi-rebels-capture-air-base-near-aden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/yemen-crisis-houthi-rebels-capture-air-base-near-aden\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen crisis: Houthi rebels capture air base near Aden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/yemen.jpg\" alt=\"yemen\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1609\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sanaa &#8211; Houthi rebels have taken a key air base from forces loyal to Yemen&#8217;s President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, continuing an advance towards his stronghold of Aden.<\/p>\n<p>Locals said rebel fighters backed by allied army units seized al-Anad early on Wednesday after heavy fighting.<br \/>\nHours after the fall of the base, only 60km (37 miles) north of Aden, there were reports that Mr Hadi had fled his palace for an undisclosed location.<br \/>\nBut aides to the president swiftly denied that he had left the country.<br \/>\nLater, unidentified warplanes targeted the palace compound in Aden, officials and witnesses said, in the third such attack in a week.<br \/>\nMr Hadi took refuge in the city last month after fleeing Sanaa.<br \/>\nThe rebels took full control of the capital in January, placing him under house arrest and declaring a &#8220;presidential council&#8221; would rule the country. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanaa &#8211; Houthi rebels have taken a key air base from forces loyal to Yemen&#8217;s President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, continuing an advance towards his stronghold of Aden. Locals said rebel fighters backed by allied army units seized al-Anad early on Wednesday after heavy fighting. Hours after the fall of the base, only 60km (37 miles) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-13","category-world"],"views":613,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}