{"id":18353,"date":"2026-07-25T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/25\/yemen-air-defenses-force-saudi-fighter-jets-retreat\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:45:19","slug":"yemen-air-defenses-force-saudi-fighter-jets-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/25\/yemen-air-defenses-force-saudi-fighter-jets-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen Air Defenses Force Saudi Fighter Jets to Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A military source at Yemen&#8217;s Ministry of Defense announced that the country&#8217;s air defense systems targeted Saudi fighter jets, preventing them from entering Yemen&#8217;s airspace.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, whose statements were published by Al Masirah network, the Saudi jets were forced to retreat after the air defenses fired upon them.<\/p>\n<p>These developments come after Saudi warplanes bombed the port city of Al Hudaydah last night; Yemeni sources described this as a continuation of Riyadh&#8217;s hostile policies against Sanaa.<\/p>\n<p>The Yemeni armed forces have announced that they will issue a statement at 3 PM local time to provide details about a significant military operation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reports from inside Saudi Arabia indicate that early warning systems have been activated multiple times and flights at two airports have been disrupted. Media outlets also reported hearing several explosions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen&#8217;s air defenses forced Saudi fighter jets to retreat and prevented airspace violations amid ongoing attacks on Al Hudaydah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}