{"id":2870,"date":"2026-10-18T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:03:57","slug":"houthis-claim-to-have-shot-down-saudi-apache-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2870","title":{"rendered":"Houthis claim to have shot down Saudi Apache helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Yemen\u2019s Houthi group claimed that it had shot down a Saudi Apache military helicopter near the Najran region in southern Saudi Arabia while it was conducting operations against Houthi positions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, made the claim in a statement carried by the Houthi-run version of Yemen\u2019s Saba news agency on Saturday, saying Houthi forces had targeted the helicopter as it carried out what he described as \u201chostile operations\u201d along the Saudi-Yemeni border.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi officials had not immediately commented on the claim, and the reported downing of the helicopter had not been independently confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid escalating hostilities in Yemen and continued Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia since July.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have reportedly targeted civilian aviation facilities and energy infrastructure within the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen\u2019s Houthi group claimed that it had shot down a Saudi Apache military helicopter near the Najran region in southern Saudi Arabia while it was conducting operations against Houthi positions. The group\u2019s military spokesperson, Yahya Saree, made the claim in a statement carried by the Houthi-run version of Yemen\u2019s Saba news agency on Saturday, saying Houthi forces had targeted the helicopter as it carried out what he described as \u201chostile operations\u201d along the Saudi-Yemeni border. Saudi officials had not immediately commented on the claim, and the reported downing of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}