{"id":93718,"date":"2026-09-28T14:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/inside-yemens-front-line-city-as-houthis-battle-for-control-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T14:44:50","slug":"inside-yemens-front-line-city-as-houthis-battle-for-control-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/inside-yemens-front-line-city-as-houthis-battle-for-control-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Yemen&#8217;s front-line city as Houthis battle for control | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi-backed pro-government forces are battling to push back Houthi fighters in the city of Taiz, Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The fighters swept down <!--more--> the coast of the Red Sea earlier this month, taking control of a key shipping chokepoint and escalating Yemen&#8217;s civil war.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC travelled with government forces from Taiz through checkpoints to the line where their control ends and no man&#8217;s land begins, in order to see the fighting up close.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Yemen #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi-backed pro-government forces are battling to push back Houthi fighters in the city of Taiz, Yemen. The fighters swept down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}