{"id":935,"date":"2026-09-05T13:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/over-60-killed-as-yemen-ground-fighting-escalates-on-western-coast\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T13:47:19","slug":"over-60-killed-as-yemen-ground-fighting-escalates-on-western-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/05\/over-60-killed-as-yemen-ground-fighting-escalates-on-western-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 60 Killed as Yemen Ground Fighting Escalates on Western Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fighting between Yemen\u2019s Saudi-backed government forces and Iran-aligned Houthi rebels has resulted in more than 60 fatalities, marking some of the deadliest combat in the region in recent years. The escalation follows a Houthi military offensive targeting government positions along the country\u2019s western coast.<\/p>\n<p>According to medical and military sources speaking to Agence France-Presse, intense exchanges over several hours in the southwest on Saturday claimed the lives of 26 government troops and 31 Houthi fighters. The violence also severely impacted non-combatants, with a missile strike on a bus in the city of Taiz killing six civilians and wounding seven others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deadliest clashes in years claim over 60 lives, including civilians, as Houthi rebels and government forces engage in intense combat along Yemen&#8217;s western coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[288,1193,33,10,1192],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-conflict","tag-houthis","tag-middle-east","tag-world","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yovao.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}