{"id":3175,"date":"2018-03-23T00:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2018-03-23T00:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T00:22:42","slug":"mattis-says-saudi-arabia-is-part-of-the-solution-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/23\/mattis-says-saudi-arabia-is-part-of-the-solution-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"MATTIS SAYS SAUDI ARABIA IS \u201cPART OF THE SOLUTION\u201d IN YEMEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2663\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-1024x522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-1024x522.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-768x392.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-560x286.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-260x133.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman-160x82.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/11\/Mohammed-bin-Salman.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Military Times<\/p>\n<p>By: Robert Burns<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday said Saudi Arabia was \u201cpart of the solution\u201d in Yemen, where the Saudis are leading a U.S.-supported military campaign against Houthi rebels that is heavily criticized for inflicting civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Mattis spoke at the start of a Pentagon meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is on a three-week U.S. visit. Earlier this week, the Senate debated and then shelved a resolution calling for an end to U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>Mattis had opposed the measure, saying it would be counterproductive by increasing civilian casualties, jeopardizing counterterrorism cooperation and emboldening Iran to increase its support for Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/03\/22\/mattis-says-saudis-arabia-part-of-the-solution-in-yemen\/?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Socialflow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Military Times By: Robert Burns Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Thursday said Saudi Arabia was \u201cpart of the solution\u201d in Yemen, where the Saudis are leading a U.S.-supported military campaign against Houthi rebels that is heavily criticized for inflicting civilian casualties. Mattis spoke at the start of a Pentagon meeting with Saudi Crown Prince&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/03\/23\/mattis-says-saudi-arabia-is-part-of-the-solution-in-yemen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MATTIS SAYS SAUDI ARABIA IS \u201cPART OF THE SOLUTION\u201d IN YEMEN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1820,1677],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-jim-mattis","tag-saudi-crown-prince-mohammed-bin-salman","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3176,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions\/3176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}