{"id":2883,"date":"2026-10-18T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2026-10-18T10:03:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T05:03:45","slug":"eight-yemeni-soldiers-killed-in-clashes-with-houthis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2883","title":{"rendered":"Eight Yemeni soldiers killed in clashes with Houthis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Eight Yemeni soldiers were killed on the Al Maqatirah front in the southern province of Lahj, the army said late Saturday, amid continued fighting with the Houthi group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The army-affiliated Tur Al Bahah Military Axis said in a statement that the soldiers were killed on the front line but provided no further details.<\/p>\n<p>The Houthis did not immediately comment on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Saturday, Houthi shelling killed three civilians, including two women, and wounded five others in separate attacks in neighbouring Taiz province, according to a government office.<\/p>\n<p>The latest violence comes amid a military escalation that began in July and marks the most significant fighting since a period of relative calm following a UN-brokered truce that took effect in April 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen has been mired in conflict since the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, and several other provinces in September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015 in support of the internationally recognised government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Yemeni soldiers were killed on the Al Maqatirah front in the southern province of Lahj, the army said late Saturday, amid continued fighting with the Houthi group. The army-affiliated Tur Al Bahah Military Axis said in a statement that the soldiers were killed on the front line but provided no further details. The Houthis did not immediately comment on the incident. Earlier on Saturday, Houthi shelling killed three civilians, including two women, and wounded five others in separate attacks in neighbouring Taiz province, according to a government office. 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-2883","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\/2883","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=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}