{"id":3944,"date":"2026-11-06T20:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2026-11-06T20:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T15:03:46","slug":"saudi-led-coalition-intercepts-drone-in-makkah-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3944","title":{"rendered":"Saudi-led coalition intercepts drone in Makkah region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen\u2019s Houthis said on Friday it had intercepted a drone in the region of the holy city of Makkah following repeated attacks on the kingdom by the pro-Iran group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInterception and destruction of a drone in the Makkah region,\u201d Turki al-Malki, the coalition\u2019s spokesman, wrote on social media, without elaborating on the source of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Since the breakdown of a truce in July, Saudi Arabia has traded blows with the Houthis, who have struck Saudi airports, energy infrastructure and military sites.<\/p>\n<p>But the group has repeatedly said their forces will not target the holy cities of Makkah or Madinah.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Saudi coalition said it had intercepted a missile fired by the Houthis at the Madina region, a claim denounced by the group as \u201cblatant and grave falsehood\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the ground in Yemen, the Houthis have also been fighting forces from the country\u2019s Saudi-backed internationally recognised government.<\/p>\n<p>A September offensive saw the Houthis capture areas overlooking the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, which links Europe to Asia via the Red Sea and Suez Canal.<\/p>\n<p>Government forces have since been trying to retake territory, backed by Saudi air power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen\u2019s Houthis said on Friday it had intercepted a drone in the region of the holy city of Makkah following repeated attacks on the kingdom by the pro-Iran group. \u201cInterception and destruction of a drone in the Makkah region,\u201d Turki al-Malki, the coalition\u2019s spokesman, wrote on social media, without elaborating on the source of the attack. Since the breakdown of a truce in July, Saudi Arabia has traded blows with the Houthis, who have struck Saudi airports, energy infrastructure and military sites. But the group has&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-3944","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\/3944","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=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}