A member of the Southern Resistance Committees aims his sniper weapon during clashes with Houthi fighters in Yemen's southern city of Aden, April 24, 2015./ An Iranian naval convoy suspected of possibly trying to deliver weapons to Yemen’s Houthi rebels appears to be on its way back to Iran, ...
Yemen's influential former president urged his rebel allies Friday to heed UN demands to withdraw from territory seized in months of fighting, so Saudi-led air strikes can end and reconciliation begin./ Ali Abdullah Saleh, who still holds sway over army units allied with the Iran-backed Huthi ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Ousted Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh called upon his Shiite rebel allies to withdraw from occupied cities Friday as a United Nations report concluded that more than 500 civilians, including 115 children, have been killed since the start of a month-long Saudi-led ...
A Saudi border guard watches as he stands in a boat off the coast of the Red Sea on Saudi Arabia's maritime border with Yemen, near Jizan, April 8, 2015./ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A flotilla of nine Iranian military and cargo ships that U.S. officials feared was carrying arms to strife-torn Yemen ...
Aircraft carrier 'Big Stick' made up for speaking incoherently./ In this Wednesday, April 15, 2015 image released by the U.S. Navy, a shooter launches an F/A-18F Super Hornet, assigned to the Red Rippers of Strike Fighter Attack Squadron 11, off the flight deck aboard Nimitz-class aircraft ...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A month of "devastating" conflict in Yemen has killed or injured hundreds of children, and dozens more have been mobilized as fighters, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Friday. At least 115 children have been killed and 172 maimed since ...
A flotilla of nine Iranian military and cargo ships that U.S. officials feared was carrying arms to strife-torn Yemen sailed northeast in the direction of Iran on Friday, a move the Pentagon said helped to ease U.S. concerns. "The (Iranian) ships have turned around ... Obviously what their ...
An Iranian ship convoy suspected of carrying weapons for Shiite rebels in Yemen has turned back, US officials said, as Saudi-led warplanes kept up air strikes on the anti-government forces./ The conflict has sent tensions soaring between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, which backs the ...
Saudi-led warplanes launched more deadly strikes in Yemen despite a demand by Iran-backed rebels for a complete halt to the raids as a condition for UN-sponsored peace talks./ The military coalition has declared an end to the first phase of its operations against the Huthi Shiite rebels and ...
An aerial handout image from the US Navy showing the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy operating in the Arabian Sea on April 21./ WASHINGTON – The Iranian ship convoy suspected of ferrying arms to Houthi rebels in Yemen consists of several small ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A flotilla of nine Iranian military and cargo ships that U.S. officials feared was carrying arms to strife-torn Yemen sailed northeast in the direction of Iran on Friday, a move the Pentagon said helped to ease U.S. concerns./ Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon ...
An Iranian flotilla suspected of carrying weapons bound for rebels in Yemen reversed course and appeared to be heading home, averting a potential confrontation in the Gulf of Aden, U.S. defense officials said Thursday. The cargo ships, accompanied by two Iranian warships, shifted course as a U.S ...
Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday called on all Yemenis to return to political dialogue to end to the country's conflict. "I call on all conflicting parties in all provinces to stop fighting and return to dialogue in all provinces," Saleh said in an emailed statement. The ...
WASHINGTON — A Pentagon official says tension has abated over the prospect of Iranian cargo ships delivering advanced weaponry to Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Iranian convoy is now headed back in the direction of Iran. Col. Steve Warren is a Pentagon spokesman. He says he cannot be sure where the ...
Saudis, U.S. trying to prevent arms from reaching Houthis/ WASHINGTON—An Iranian flotilla suspected of carrying weapons bound for rebels in Yemen has reversed course and appeared to be heading home, averting a potential confrontation in the Gulf of Aden, U.S. defense officials said Thursday. The ...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (left) and Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz hold talks in Riyadh, on April 23, 2015 (AFP Photo/)/ Pakistan's prime minister expressed "solidarity" with Saudi Arabia during a visit on Thursday after his parliament refused to send forces to help a Saudi-led ...
Fighting between Yemen's warring factions raged in southern and central parts of the country and air strikes hit Houthi militia forces in Aden on Friday, but there were no fresh moves toward dialogue. Saudi Arabia says it is winding down its month-old bombing operation against the Iran-allied ...
ship Iranian convoy believed to be laden with weapons bound for rebels in Yemen turned around Thursday after being followed by U.S. warships stationed in the area to prevent arms shipments, multiple sources in the Pentagon told Fox News. The sources said the nine-ship convoy is south of Salalah, ...
Yemenis dig graves to bury the victims of a reported airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition against Shiite Huthi rebel positions in the village of Bani Matar, on April 4, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Geneva (AFP) - The death toll from fighting in Yemen since late March has now topped 1,000, ...
Saudi-led coalition warplanes launched new strikes in Yemen on Thursday despite a demand by rebels for a complete halt to the raids as a condition for UN-sponsored peace talks./ The regional alliance on Tuesday declared an end to the first phase of its operations against the Iran-backed Huthi ...
Saudi Arabia has bombed Yemen for four weeks but may be little closer to imposing influence in its war-torn neighbor. As the kingdom winds down the campaign it led against Yemen's Houthis, a militia allied to its regional rival Iran, Riyadh faces a test of its diplomatic skills in trying to ...
Iranian Ships Moving Away From Yemen/ U.S. officials say Iranian ships suspected of carrying weapons for Shi’ite Huthi rebels are moving away from Yemen. The unidentified officials were quoted as saying on April 23 that the nine-ship convoy had turned around and headed north, away from the ...
WASHINGTON — A U.S. defense official says the convoy of Iranian cargo ships that had been headed toward war-torn Yemen, possibly with advanced weaponry for Houthi rebels, has reversed its direction, at least temporarily. The official said it remains unclear where the nine-ship convoy may be ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian ships are moving northeast away from Yemen, a U.S. official said on Thursday after a convoy of Iranian cargo ships prompted U.S. concerns that Tehran was sending weapons into region. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called the move a "promising ...
A convoy of Iranian ships in the Arabian Sea, headed for Yemen, reversed course when confronted by opposition warships. The convoy was believed to be carrying arms to Houthi rebels in Yemen, who have overtaken the government and are being fought by the Yemeni military, with air support from a ...
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (Reuters) -Dallas Federal Reserve President Lorie Logan on Friday said it's not clear if monetary policy is tight enough to bring inflation down to the U.S. central bank's 2% goal, and with price pressures still too strong, it is too soon to be cutting interest rates. ...
China's car exports surged to a record high in April, data showed on Friday, as domestic sales slipped 5.8% from a year earlier amid intensifying price competition and consumers' caution about spending on big items during a shaky economic recovery. Car exports jumped 38% year-on-year to 417,000 ...
scale Israeli ground invasion, Rafah's medical facilities have been overwhelmed./ Medics say more than a million people sheltering in the southern Gaza city are at risk of being deprived of healthcare after the Israeli military began a "limited" operation against Hamas on its eastern outskirts ...
Unfortunately, cancer can happen to anyone—a fact that is physically and emotionally painful and unfair. We don't always know why happens to someone, and people can't control every aspect of their health. However, food choices are one factor people should feel empowered to make, knowing they can ...
A Family Fare store is shown in Midland, Mich., Thursday, May 9, 2024. Contractors curious about an extension cord on the roof of a Michigan grocery store made a startling discovery: A 34-year-old woman was living inside the business sign, with enough space for a computer, printer and coffee ...
Ukraine's parliament voted on Thursday to dismiss Deputy Prime Minister , who has overseen the wartime reconstruction effort and championed efforts to set up a vital Black Sea shipping lane, lawmakers said. Kubrakov also helped ensure key logistical routes for millions of people fleeing the ...
Play video Biden Warns Israel over Rafah from BBC News/ Half of Gaza water sites damaged or destroyed, BBC satellite data reveals/ Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify ...
Hundreds of Gaza's water and sanitation facilities have been damaged or destroyed since Israel began military action against Hamas, satellite analysis by BBC Verify has found./ Damage to a major supplies depot has also severely disrupted repairs./ The lack of clean water and flows of untreated ...
MIAMI (AP) — Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said Wednesday. , 23, who was based at the ...
Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, or Auto China 2024, in Beijing/ LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) -Top executives at BMW and Volkswagen on Wednesday warned against imposing EU import duties on electric vehicles from Chinese automakers, saying it could upend the bloc's Green Deal plan and harm ...