{"id":416870,"date":"2021-05-26T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T03:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416870"},"modified":"2021-05-26T10:08:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T04:38:37","slug":"mysterious-airbase-being-built-on-volcanic-island-off-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mysterious-airbase-being-built-on-volcanic-island-off-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious airbase being built on volcanic island off Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai: A mysterious airbase is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world&#8217;s crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo.<\/p>\n<p>While no country has claimed the Mayun Island airbase in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, shipping traffic associated with a prior attempt to build a massive runway across the 5.6-kilometer (3.5 mile)-long island years ago links back to the United Arab Emirates. <\/p>\n<p>Officials in Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognized government now say the Emiratis are behind this latest effort as well, even though the UAE announced in 2019 it was withdrawing its troops from a Saudi-led military campaign battling Yemen&#8217;s Houthi rebels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai: A mysterious airbase is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world&#8217;s crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo. While no country has claimed the Mayun Island airbase in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, shipping traffic associated with a prior attempt to build a massive runway across the 5.6-kilometer (3.5 mile)-long island years ago links back to the United Arab Emirates. Officials in Yemen&#8217;s internationally recognized government now say the Emiratis are behind this latest effort as well, even though the UAE announced in 2019 it was withdrawing its troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}