{"id":11056,"date":"2017-11-06T20:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=11056"},"modified":"2017-11-06T20:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T20:02:27","slug":"saudi-arabia-seals-yemen-borders-accuses-iran-over-missile-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/saudi-arabia-seals-yemen-borders-accuses-iran-over-missile-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia seals Yemen borders, accuses Iran over missile strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"lead\">The Saudi-led coalition battling Huothi fighters in Yemen closed the country&#8217;s air, sea and land borders Monday and accused Iran of being behind a weekend missile attack on Riyadh, saying it &#8220;may amount to an act of war&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>(AFP) &#8212;\u00a0Saudi Arabia intercepted and destroyed the ballistic missile, which was launched from Yemen, near Riyadh&#8217;s international airport on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The missile was the first aimed by the Yemeni fighters at the heart of the Saudi capital, underscoring the growing threat posed by the raging conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The leadership of the coalition forces therefore considers this&#8230; a blatant military aggression by the Iranian regime which may amount to an act of war,&#8221; the official Saudi news agency SPA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Smouldering debris landed inside the King Khalid International Airport, just north of Riyadh, after the missile was shot down but authorities reported no major damage or loss of life.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the temporary closure of the air, sea and land ports, Saudi would protect &#8220;the entry and exit of relief and humanitarian personnel&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the World Health Organization, more than 8,650 people have been killed since the conflict erupted in 2015 and nearly 49,000 wounded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi-led coalition battling Huothi fighters in Yemen closed the country&#8217;s air, sea and land borders Monday and accused Iran of being behind a weekend missile attack on Riyadh, saying it &#8220;may amount to an act of war&#8221;. (AFP) &#8212;\u00a0Saudi Arabia intercepted and destroyed the ballistic missile, which was launched from Yemen, near Riyadh&#8217;s international &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11058,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions\/11058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}