Clashes between rebels and pro-government forces in Yemen and Saudi-led air strikes killed 44 people, medics and local sources said Sunday, as Riyadh pledged to cover a UN humanitarian aid appeal./ The UN says hundreds of people have died and thousands of families fled their homes since the air ...
A Iranian flag flutters in the winds at the Iranian ambassador's residence in Sanaa January 18, 2014./ (Reuters) - Yemen's government has rejected a four-point peace plan for the country that Iran submitted to the United Nations, a spokesman said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Arab ...
Fighting along Saudi Arabia's border with Yemen has killed a soldier from the kingdom, the Saudi-led coalition spokesman said on Saturday./ The soldier is the seventh to die since coalition aircraft on March 26 began air strikes in Yemen to stop a southern advance by Iran-backed Huthi rebels. ...
Tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia continued to escalate Saturday, with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani slamming Saudi-led airstrikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. "You planted the seeds of hatred in the hearts" of people in the region, said Rouhani at Iran's National Army Day ceremony, ...
Yemeni tribal gunmen of the Popular Resistance Committees loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi on April 16, 2015 in the city of Taez (AFP Photo/Taha Saleh)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Saudi Arabia, which is leading a three-week-old air war against rebel forces in Yemen, on Saturday announced $274 ...
Yemen's government has rejected a four-point peace plan for the country that Iran submitted to the United Nations, a spokesman said on Saturday. Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Arab coalition partners have been bombing Iranian-allied Houthi rebels for three weeks in order to halt advances that could ...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for international action to end the Saudi-led air campaign on Huthi rebels as intense bombing hit Yemen again Friday and Al-Qaeda seized more ground in the chaos./ Columns of smoke rose over an arms depot targeted by warplanes east of the capital Sanaa, ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to a question during a joint news conference with his Spanish counterpart Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo (unseen) at the foreign ministry in Madrid, April 14, 2015./ (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister on Friday submitted a letter to U.N. chief ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister on Friday submitted a letter to U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon outlining a four-point peace plan for Yemen, where Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have been targeted for weeks by Saudi-led air strikes. The plan, which Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, speaks via video link to his supporters during a rally titled "in solidarity with oppressed Yemen" in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2015. The leader of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has launched his harshest criticism yet ...
A newspaper hails Saudi Arabia's "brave armed men". Students build a remote-controlled fighter plane as a tribute to warplanes bombing Yemeni rebels. A phone company offers patriotic songs as ringtones./ This is wartime in Saudi Arabia, a tightly controlled Islamic kingdom where almost every ...
President Hasan Rouhani warns the country will harvest the hatred it is sowing in Yemen/ TEHRAN—Iranian President Hasan Rouhani harshly criticized Saudi Arabia Saturday, warning that the Saudi royal family in Riyadh will harvest the hatred it is sowing in Yemen through its airstrike campaign. ...
UNITED NATIONS — Iran’s foreign minister urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday to try to end “the senseless aerial attacks” in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition and establish a cease-fire. Javad Zarif said in a letter, obtained by The Associated Press, that airstrikes by the regional ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is harshly criticizing Saudi Arabia, warning that the Saudi royal family in Riyadh will harvest the hatred it is sowing in Yemen through its airstrike campaign. Since March 26, the Saudi-led coalition has been attacking Shiite rebels known as ...
Iran’s foreign minister on Friday submitted a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon outlining a four-point peace plan for Yemen, where Houthi revolutionaries have been targeted for three weeks by Saudi-led air strikes, Reuters reported. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced the ...
Hugh Grant arrives at the premiere of "Wonka" on Dec. 10, 2023, at Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Calif. Hugh Grant says he received “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into ...
Iran's brazen attack directly targeting Israel on Saturday means that the one thing President Biden most feared and desperately sought to avert in the wake of the 7 October Hamas attack has happened - an escalation of the conflict to the wider region./ For the US president, the tightrope he was ...
Police have released a grainy image taken from surveillance footage of a man believed to be responsible for a violent sexual assault on a woman who was sitting in her car outside of a restaurant in Pasadena on Saturday. The terrifying ordeal unfolded at around 8:40 p.m. on Sierra Madre Villa ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis answers questions from the media, March 7, 2023, at the state Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. DeSantis admits the book challenge law he enacted two years ago is causing problems for school districts. He signed a bill Tuesday, April 16, 2024, that adjusts the law that made ...
The Shah of Iran with his third wife, Empress Farah Diba, and their son Crown Prince Reza./ From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah./ On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country./ The government was replaced with an Islamic republic, which ...
It wasn't many days ago that Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was under enormous pressure./ After seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen were killed by the Israeli army in Gaza on 1 April, US President Joe Biden seemed finally to lose patience with his troublesome ally./ On the ...
Play video Israel Vows Response to Iran Attack from BBC News/ Stabbed Iranian journalist says UK should proscribe Iran's IRGC/ Israel urges new sanctions on Iran's missile programme/ As everyone waits to see how Israel responds militarily to Iran, it is also acting diplomatically. Israel looks ...
People walk on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on March 21, 2024./ said its valedictorian will no longer deliver a graduation speech this year, citing "substantial risks relating to security" over social media chatter surrounding the Israel-Hamas conflict. , a ...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The parents of a woman who was gunned down by her ex-father-in-law said a family court judge ignored warning signs. Ashley Prince, 30, was shot and killed on April 8 and her husband, Dennis Prince, 57, who was representing her at a child custody deposition at his Las Vegas law ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas lawyer and his wife had been in the middle of a contentious battle for custody of her children from a previous marriage when the woman's former father-in-law, also an attorney, fatally shot them last week during a deposition hearing in the case, according to ...