{"id":18423,"date":"2019-05-12T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=18423"},"modified":"2019-05-12T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T10:35:20","slug":"saudi-forces-kill-8-in-shiite-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2019\/05\/12\/saudi-forces-kill-8-in-shiite-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi forces kill 8 in Shiite area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi security forces have killed eight people during an operation in the predominantly Shiite eastern Al-Qatif region, state news agency SPA said Saturday, reports Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The oil-producing province is a regular flash point between the Sunni-dominated government and minority Shiites, who complain of discrimination and marginalization. Saudi authorities deny mistreatment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The operation occurred on Tarout island, just off the city of Qatif, and targeted a newly formed &#8220;terrorist cell,&#8221; SPA said in a statement, adding there were no casualties among civilians or policemen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Security forces were still at the site, it said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Saudi security services regularly carry out operations in the area, with fatalities reported during operations in January and September, according to Saudi media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi security forces have killed eight people during an operation in the predominantly Shiite eastern Al-Qatif region, state news agency SPA said Saturday, reports Reuters. &nbsp; The oil-producing province is a regular flash point between the Sunni-dominated government and minority Shiites, who complain of discrimination and marginalization. Saudi authorities deny mistreatment. &nbsp; The operation occurred on Tarout island, just off the city of Qatif, and targeted a newly formed &ldquo;terrorist cell,&rdquo; SPA said in a statement, adding there were no casualties among civilians or policemen. &nbsp; Security forces were still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18424,"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\/18423"}],"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=18423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18425,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18423\/revisions\/18425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}