{"id":13077,"date":"2017-12-20T05:53:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=13077"},"modified":"2017-12-20T05:53:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T05:53:28","slug":"saudi-intercepts-yemen-rebel-missile-over-riyadh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/12\/20\/saudi-intercepts-yemen-rebel-missile-over-riyadh\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi \u2018intercepts Yemen rebel missile over Riyadh\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s Houthi movement fired a ballistic missile towards the Saudi capital Riyadh targeting a meeting of Saudi leaders at a royal palace on Tuesday, its spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Abdussalam said on Twitter that a Volcano 2-H ballistic missile was fired towards al-Yamama royal palace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saudi air defences intercepted the missile, Saudi-owned channel al-Arabiya reported in a news flash quoting a Saudi-led military coalition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reporters heard a blast in Riyadh on Tuesday and saw a plume of smoke rising above the Saudi capital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The plume of smoke appeared to be rising from the northeast of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The coalition is battling the armed Houthi movement in neighbouring Yemen. The Houthis said earlier they had fired a missile towards Riyadh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&rsquo;s Houthi movement fired a ballistic missile towards the Saudi capital Riyadh targeting a meeting of Saudi leaders at a royal palace on Tuesday, its spokesman said. &nbsp; Mohammed Abdussalam said on Twitter that a Volcano 2-H ballistic missile was fired towards al-Yamama royal palace. &nbsp; Saudi air defences intercepted the missile, Saudi-owned channel al-Arabiya reported in a news flash quoting a Saudi-led military coalition. &nbsp; Reuters reporters heard a blast in Riyadh on Tuesday and saw a plume of smoke rising above the Saudi capital. &nbsp; The plume of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13079,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions\/13079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}