UN staff were evacuated from Yemen's capital Saturday after a third night of Saudi-led air strikes, as President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi urged his Arab allies to bomb Iranian-backed rebels into submission./ The deeply tribal and impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, on the front line of the US ...
Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, walk on the tarmac at Sanaa International Airport in Yemen. Yemen's President Abed Raboo Mansour Hadi called Shiite rebels who forced him to flee the country "stooges of Iran."/ Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt — Yemen's embattled president on Saturday called Shiite rebels ...
Sharm el Sheikh (Egypt) (AFP) - Egypt is hosting a weekend Arab summit at which regional leaders will discuss plans to form a joint military force against the backdrop of Saudi-led strikes on rebels in Yemen./ In a post-Arab Spring era of conflict and political turmoil in which jihadists have ...
A Yemeni man carries a box of ammunition he took from a military depot in Aden, Yemen, Friday, March 27, 2015. Shiite rebels, known as the Houthis, has seized the city since Wednesday. Looters have then taken weapons and ammunition from two abandoned army camps. (AP Photo/Yassir Hassan)/ SANAA, ...
British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond (pictured) listens during a joint press conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud bin al-Faisal bin Abdulaziz during a meeting on March 23, 2015 in Riyadh (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)/ Washington (AFP) - Britain will provide technical support to ...
An image grab taken from Hezbollah's al-Manar TV on March 27, 2015 shows Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the militant Shiite Muslim movement, giving a televised address from an undisclosed location in Lebanon (AFP Photo/)/ Beirut (AFP) - Saudi Arabia will be roundly "defeated" in its air campaign ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Geneva March 2, 2015./ (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister accused Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday of fomenting strife in the Middle East, rebuffing his accusation that Iran was trying to dominate the region. "It would be better if ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Defense Department official says U.S. forces rescued two Saudi airmen after they ejected from an F-15 fighter jet over waters south of Yemen, where Saudi Arabia is leading airstrikes against Iran-allied Houthi rebels. The official says a U.S. helicopter flew Thursday from ...
SHEIKH, Egypt (AP) — Arab leaders meeting this weekend in this Egyptian Red Sea resort are moving closer than ever to creating a joint Arab military force, a sign of a new determination among Saudi Arabia, Egypt and their allies to intervene aggressively in regional hotspots, whether against ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks at the National Palace in Mexico City on February 12, 2015 (AFP Photo/Yuri Cortez)/ Istanbul (AFP) - Turkey could provide "logistical" support for Saudi Arabia's operation against Iran-allied Huthi rebels in Yemen, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said ...
calls for cooperation among countries in the region to promote dialogues, and to bring peace to , Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said on Friday. Iran is fully ready to cooperate with other countries in the Middle East to facilitate dialog among regional stakeholders and ...
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon's Shiite Hezbollah group has slammed Saudi Arabia's intervention in Yemen, calling it "surprising and painful." Hassan Nasrallah rejected Riyadh's claim that it had assembled a coalition to conduct airstrikes against Shiite rebels in order to save Yemen, and ...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country could provide logistical support to the Saudi Arabia-led operation in Yemen. Separately, Erdogan has lashed out at Iran, accusing it of trying to "dominate the region." Erdogan told France 24 television in an interview ...
WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Barack Obama spoke with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday about pressing issues in the Middle East, including the crisis in Yemen, the White House said. The hour-long call was initiated by Turkey, sources in the Turkish president's office said ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States says Iran has been playing a key role in backing the Houthi advance in Yemen. Adel al-Jubeir says Iranian Revolutionary Guard officers, as well as operatives from the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah, are on the ground in ...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Iran has been trying to dominate the Middle East and its efforts have begun annoying Ankara, as well as Saudi Arabia and Gulf Arab countries. "It is really not possible to tolerate this. Iran has to understand," Erdogan told a press ...
President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Thursday as saying Turkey may consider providing logistical support to the Saudi-led military mission in Yemen and called on Iran and "terrorist groups" to withdraw from the country. "Turkey may consider providing logistical support based on the evolution ...
Scientists have issued a stern warning over the ongoing threat of rising sea levels caused by the ever-changing climate. revealed that coastal communities across eight states in the U.S. are facing "one of the most rapid sea level surges on Earth." Since 2010, satellite data shows that the Gulf ...
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A substitute teacher punched and slapped a Las Vegas valley high school student causing him to become unconscious after the student used a racial slur against the teacher, according to the arrest report. While the physical fight was caught on video, what led up to it was not. ...
for 'limited' operation/ Israel's military says it has begun ordering Palestinians to leave parts of eastern Rafah ahead of a "limited" operation in the southern Gaza city./ About 100,000 people are being directed to head for an "expanded humanitarian area" in Khan Younis and al-Mawasi./ After ...
Boston’s home for classic rock announced changes to its popular morning drive show on Monday. Pete McKenzie and Heather Ford have been dropped from 100.7 WZLX’s lineup of on-air personalities, a spokesperson for iHeartMedia confirmed. “First and foremost, we’d like to thank Pete McKenzie and ...
Palestinians have begun leaving parts of eastern Rafah in Gaza after Israel urged 100,000 people to move towards an expanded "humanitarian zone". The evacuation comes ahead of an expected offensive on the city, where more than 1.4 million people are sheltering. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) ...
In this photo released by the Russian Defense Ministry on March 19, 2024, a Russian tank fires at Ukrainian troops from a position near the border with Ukraine in Russia’s Belgorod region. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)/ Russia plans to hold drills simulating the use of ...
Play video Israel Tells Rafah Civilians to Evacuate from BBC News/ Hamas says Israel 'escalation' will have consequences/ Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri has told Reuters news agency that Israel's evacuation order in parts of Rafah is a "dangerous escalation that will have consequences". ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Relatives have identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend, Mexican authorities said Sunday. Baja California state prosecutors said the relatives had viewed the corpses recovered from a remote well ...
The boy was taken to hospital in a serious condition [BBC]/ A woman from Essex has been arrested after a five-month-old baby suffered a cardiac arrest at a theme park. The infant needed medical attention at Legoland Windsor Resort, at about 13:00 BST, on Thursday./ He was taken to hospital, ...
Israel's government has moved to shut down the operations of the Al Jazeera television network in the country, branding it a mouthpiece for Hamas./ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the cabinet agreed to the closure while the war in Gaza is ongoing./ Police raided the Qatari broadcaster's ...