{"id":40416,"date":"2025-03-31T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40416"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:15:04","slug":"houthi-rebels-claim-to-have-shot-down-a-us-mq-9-drone-in-northeastern-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40416","title":{"rendered":"Houthi rebels claim to have shot down a US MQ-9 drone in northeastern Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Russian Satellite News Agency Doha, April 1. Yahya Sariya, military spokesman of the ruling Shiite military and political movement &#8220;Ansar Allah&#8221; (Houthi armed forces) in northern Yemen, announced that the air defense forces used domestically-made missiles to shoot down the US MQ-9 reconnaissance drone over Marib province in northeastern Yemen.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250305\/1064362649.html\">&#8220;The air defense forces shot down the US MQ-9 drone<\/a>&nbsp;over Marib province using appropriate missiles&nbsp;,&#8221; Sarria noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sarria noted that this was the 16th drone shot down by Yemeni air defense forces in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.cn\/20250401\/1064780088.html\">sputniknews<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Satellite News Agency Doha, April 1. Yahya Sariya, military spokesman of the ruling Shiite military and political movement &#8220;Ansar Allah&#8221; (Houthi armed forces) in northern Yemen, announced that the air defense forces used domestically-made missiles to shoot down the US MQ-9 reconnaissance drone over Marib province in northeastern Yemen. &#8220;The air defense forces shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[1517,25845,32851,27830,10442,2510],"class_list":["post-40416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-drone","tag-houthi","tag-mq-9","tag-shot-down-2","tag-us","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40418,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40416\/revisions\/40418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}