{"id":26585,"date":"2015-04-21T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T19:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=26585"},"modified":"2015-04-21T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T19:45:33","slug":"saudi-led-coalition-announces-end-to-yemen-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2015\/04\/saudi-led-coalition-announces-end-to-yemen-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-led coalition announces end to Yemen operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/yemenbomb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26591\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/yemenbomb-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke rises during an air strike on an army weapons depot on a mountain overlooking Yemen's capital Sanaa\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/yemenbomb-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/yemenbomb-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/yemenbomb-400x266.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/yemenbomb.jpg 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen for almost a month announced on Tuesday the end to its military operation, but a Saudi spokesman said forces would continue to target the Iran-allied Houthi movement as necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Operation Decisive Storm has achieved its goals&#8230;(including) removing the threat to Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries especially in terms of heavy weapons,&#8221; said a statement carried by Saudi state news agency SPA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With its end, the new Operation Restoring Hope begins with the following goals: continuing to protect civilians, continuing to fight terrorism and continuing to facilitate the evacuation of foreign nationals and to intensify relief and medical assistance to the Yemeni people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move suggests the campaign&#8217;s next phase is more political than military, especially after almost a month of bombing that destroyed or damaged heavy weaponry held by the Houthis&#8217;s allies in Yemen&#8217;s army, but that hostilities are not definitively over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/04\/21\/us-yemen-security-saudi-idUSKBN0NC24T20150421\"target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt; Read original full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen for almost a month announced on Tuesday the end to its military operation, but a Saudi spokesman said forces would continue to target the Iran-allied Houthi movement as necessary. &#8220;Operation Decisive Storm has achieved its goals&#8230;(including) removing the threat to Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries especially in terms of heavy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9,18],"tags":[1742,1808,1807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26585"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26585"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26593,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26585\/revisions\/26593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}