{"id":4053,"date":"2018-08-16T13:17:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2018-08-16T13:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T13:17:48","slug":"inside-the-uaes-war-on-al-qaeda-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/16\/inside-the-uaes-war-on-al-qaeda-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"INSIDE THE UAE\u2019S WAR ON AL-QAEDA IN YEMEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_AIRSTRIKE_YEMEN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-323\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_AIRSTRIKE_YEMEN-1024x606.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_AIRSTRIKE_YEMEN-1024x606.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_AIRSTRIKE_YEMEN-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_AIRSTRIKE_YEMEN-560x331.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_AIRSTRIKE_YEMEN-260x154.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_AIRSTRIKE_YEMEN-160x95.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_AIRSTRIKE_YEMEN.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Independent<\/p>\n<p>By Bel Trew<\/p>\n<p>The Emirati soldiers in Yemen\u2019s port city of Aden were starting to get jumpy. We had only spent 15 minutes in Dar Saad, one of the city\u2019s worst hit districts from the ongoing war, when they thought security had been compromised. This section of the neighbourhood is deeply impoverished and divided.<\/p>\n<p>It is also where the Shia Houthi rebel group first entered the city back in March 2015 when they swept control of the country and ousted the recognised Yemeni government, prompting the UAE and Saudi Arabia\u2019s intervention in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to go back a different way, groups may have laid land mines or IEDs along the road we originally took while we\u2019ve been here,\u201d said one of the officers quietly. The 15-vehicle armoured convoy swiftly rolled away.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/uae-yemen-civil-war-al-qaeda-aden-dar-saad-gulf-saudi-arabia-conflict-a8492021.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Independent By Bel Trew The Emirati soldiers in Yemen\u2019s port city of Aden were starting to get jumpy. We had only spent 15 minutes in Dar Saad, one of the city\u2019s worst hit districts from the ongoing war, when they thought security had been compromised. This section of the neighbourhood is deeply impoverished&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/16\/inside-the-uaes-war-on-al-qaeda-in-yemen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INSIDE THE UAE\u2019S WAR ON AL-QAEDA IN YEMEN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","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=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}