CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Thursday that it carried out attacks on military sites in Jizan Airport in Saudi Arabia, the group’s Al-Masirah TV reported. There was no Saudi confirmation of the attacks. The Houthis, who are fighting in neighboring ...
SANAA, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi militia on Sunday claimed responsibility for its overnight attacks targeting vital energy facilities, including Aramco oil facilities, in several cities in Saudi Arabia. "A barrage of ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones targeted Aramco oil facilit...
So far the cease-fire in Yemen has been largely held despite occasional accusations of breaches traded between the warring sides. Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Iran-backed Houthi militia seized control of several northern provinces and forced the Saudi-backed Yemen...
The Saudi Arabian War on Yemen is also a British one. April 18, 2015Churchill's KarmaLeave a comment Three days before the Saudi led air force began its bombing of the Republic of Yemen on Thursday 26th March, the British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond was in the Saudi capital, Riyadh...
According to local media reports, the convoy traveled from southern Yemen's port city of Aden via a treacherous and challenging route, on which a military vehicle overturned, injuring two soldiers from the Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces who were accompanying Al-Alimi. ...
Other analysts believe that after weathering thousands of Saudi-led coalition airstrikes since 2015, the Houthis have developed robust mechanisms for minimizing losses from airstrikes. Colonel Hamid Abu Badrin, a military observer, said, "The group had invented methods to absorb strikes through conce...
During the meeting, Zarif stressed the need for an immediate stop to the war and bombing of Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition. Given the human catastrophe in Yemen, there is a necessity for the international community to send humanitarian assistance to Yemen immediately, he was quoted as saying...
Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Iran-backed Houthi militia seized control of several northern provinces and forced the Saudi-backed Yemeni government out of the capital Sanaa.■
The escalation came after the Houthi militia lost several strategic districts in the oil-rich provinces of Shabwa and Marib in central Yemen. Yemen has been mired in a civil war since late 2014 when the Iran-backed Houthi militia seized control of the northern provinces and forced the Saudi-...
Yemen's protracted conflict erupted in 2014 when the Houthis seized control of the capital Sanaa, sparking one of the world's most severe humanitarian crises. In 2015, a Saudi-led military coalition intervened in an attempt to restore the government. ...