Yemeni supporters of the Shiite Huthi militia hold a portrait the movement's leader, Abdulmalik al-Huthi, on March 26, 2015, during a gathering in Sanaa to show support the militia and against the Saudi-led intervention in the country (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Sanaa (AFP) - Yemen rebel leader ...
Pakistan's government said Thursday it will dispatch a top civil-military delegation to Saudi Arabia following Riyadh's request that it join a coalition to defend Yemen's president, promising a "strong response" to any threat to the Gulf kingdom./ Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif decided to send the ...
A picture released by the official website of the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani shows him giving a speech on December 24, 2014 in Birjand, Iran (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani condemned Saudi Arabia's military intervention Thursday in Yemen and urged all ...
Airstrikes by Saudi Arabia against Iran-backed Shiite rebels in turbulent Yemen have added a regional dimension to the conflict in the Arab world's poorest country. Five reasons why the world should care about what is happening there:/ Yemen is home to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, ...
When the Saudi ambassador in Washington announced the launching of airstrikes and a military intervention in Yemen on Wednesday night, the kingdom surprised everyone - not least Iran. Conventional wisdom was that Riyadh had dithered and left it too late. The Houthis and elements of the army ...
Yemeni members of an armed resistance group supporting President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi arrive on March 23, 2015 from the city of Abyan in Aden, southern Yemen before being deployed around the city of Lahj (AFP Photo/Saleh al-Obeidi)/ Aden (AFP) - At least 18 people were killed Thursday as ...
People gather at the site of an air strike at a residential area near Sanaa Airport March 26, 2015./ (Reuters) - Iran demanded an immediate halt to Saudi-led military operations in Yemen on Thursday and said it would make all necessary efforts to control the crisis there, Iranian news agencies ...
Saudi Arabia began airstrikes against rebels in Yemen. Video from rebels in Yemen appeared to show devastation on the ground, including damaged buildings and cars. (March 26)/ Iran's foreign ministry said airstrikes in Yemen are a "dangerous step" Thursday, after Saudi Arabia launched the ...
People search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi airstrikes near Sanaa Airport, Yemen. Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes Thursday targeting military installations in Yemen held by Shiite rebels who were taking over a key port city in the country's south and had driven the ...
Yemeni civilians and security forces stand at the site of a Saudi air strike against Huthi rebels near Sanaa Airport on March 26, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran condemned regional rival Saudi Arabia on Thursday for launching air strikes on Huthi rebels in Yemen, saying it ...
Iranian demanded an immediate halt to Saudi-led military operations in Yemen on Thursday and said it would make all necessary efforts to control the crisis there, Iranian news agencies reported. Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies on Thursday struck Iran-allied Houthi forces fighting to ...
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — The flag of once-independent South Yemen is visible everywhere around this port city, once the country's capital. The banner — red, white, black and blue with a red star — is painted on walls, flown from homes, and flutters from the vehicles and checkpoints of militiamen in ...
TEHRAN, March 26 (Xinhua) -- The Saudi-led airstrike on Yemen is not in the interest of any country and should be stopped immediately, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif said on Thursday. "This operation violates Yemen's sovereignty and will only result in bloodshed," Zarif was quoted ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's office said on Thursday any threat to Saudi Arabia would "evoke a strong response" from Islamabad. Sharif chaired a "high-level meeting" in which he said Pakistan enjoyed close and brotherly relations with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf ...
Saudi Arabia carried out air strikes against Huthi rebels in Yemen, launching an operation by a regional coalition to save the government of embattled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi as the country teetered on the brink of civil war./ The aistrikes were announced by the Saudi ambassador to the ...
Egypt sends warships through Suez Canal to support Saudi action, taken in support of Yemen's President Hadi. The US says it supports its Gulf Cooperation Council 'partners.'/ early Thursday in an attempt to roll back the advances of the northern rebel Houthi movement and in support of the ...
ADEN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday it had launched military operations in Yemen, carrying out air strikes in coordination with a 10-country coalition seeking to beat back Houthi militia forces besieging the southern city of Aden where the country's president had ...
Lebanon's Hezbollah condemned as "unjust aggression" Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen on Thursday and said it takes the region towards increased tension. The Shi'ite group, which is backed by Iran, also called on Saudi Arabia and its allies to immediately and unconditionally halt the strikes. ...
Residents of Aden run towards a weapons depot to take up arms in preparation for a potential advance on the southern Yemeni city by Huthi Shiite militia and their allies on March 25, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saleh al-Obeidi)/ Riyadh (AFP) - Five Gulf states said Thursday that they will protect Yemen's ...
A member of a coalition of fighters made up of local tribes and supporters of the southern Yemeni separatist movement, who are all opposing the Shiite-Huthi movement, drives a tank at the Al-Anad airbase, in Yemen's southern Lahj, on March 24, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saleh Al-Obeidi)/ Washington (AFP) - ...
Saudi Arabia and allies launched air strikes in Yemen on Thursday to stop the advance of the Iran-allied Houthi militia towards President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's southern refuge of Aden. [ID:nL2N0WS02B]/ Saudi Ambassador to Washington Adel al-Jubeir said a coalition of more than 10 countries ...
People flee after a gunfire on a street in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi fled the country by sea Wednesday on a boat from Aden, as Shiite rebels and their allies advanced on the city where he had taken refuge. Aden was ...
In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 file photo,Yemen's Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi gestures as he enters a polling center to cast his vote in Sanaa. Yemen's embattled president fled his palace in Aden for an undisclosed location Wednesday as Shiite rebels offered cash bounty for his ...
The Syrian state news agency said a Saudi-led military operation launched in Yemen on Thursday was an act of "blatant aggression". "Gulf war planes led by the regime of the Saudi family launch a blatant aggression on Yemen," read a headline carried on the website of the state news agency SANA. ...
Yemenis run towards a weapons depot to take up arms in preparation for a potential advance on the southern city of Aden by Huthi Shiite militia and their allies on March 25, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saleh Al-Obeidi)/ Sanaa (AFP) - Shiite rebels, known as Huthis, bore down Wednesday on Yemeni President ...
Iranian Foreign Ministry demanded an immediate halt to all military "aggressions" in Yemen and warned that it might further complicate the crisis, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Thursday. "Iran wants an immediate halt to all military aggressions and air strikes against Yemen and ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is considering a request from Saudi Arabia for troops to send to Yemen, the foreign office said on Thursday. "We have been contacted by Saudi Arabia," said spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam in response to a question about whether Pakistan would send troops. "The matter is ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has fled his palace in the southern city of Aden as Shiite rebels are closing in on the country's third-largest city./ The rebels, known as Houthis and reportedly supported by Iran, offered a bounty for Hadi's capture on ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's embattled president fled his palace in Aden for an undisclosed location Wednesday as Shiite rebels offered cash bounty for his capture and arrested his defense minister./ President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi left just hours after the rebels' own television station said ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi Arabia launched airstrikes Thursday targeting military installations in Yemen held by Shiite rebels who were taking over a key port city in the country's south and had driven the embattled president to flee by sea, security officials said./ Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya News ...
Iran said on Thursday it will make all necessary efforts to control the crisis in Yemen, the Students News Agency quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying in the Swiss city of Lausanne. "The Saudi-led air strikes should stop immediately and it is against Yemen's sovereignty ...
Houthi forces in Yemen backed by allied army units seized a key air base on Wednesday and appeared poised to capture the southern port of Aden from defenders loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, local residents said. The Houthis and their military allies later advanced to within 40km (25 ...
Yemen's Houthis are prepared to confront a Saudi-led campaign of air strikes launched on Thursday without calling for help from their ally Iran, a Houthi official told Reuters. Asked if there had been any communications with Iran since the start of the attacks, or if the Houhtis would seek ...
Iranian state media said on Thursday the military operation by Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies in Yemen was a "U.S.-backed aggression". State television broadcast footage of some of the damage, showing dozens of bodies and some wounded people, saying "many Yemeni citizens were killed in ...
Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday it had launched military operations in Yemen, carrying out air strikes in coordination with a 10-country coalition seeking to beat back Houthi militia forces besieging the southern city of Aden where the country's president had taken refuge./ With the ...
By Mark Hosenball, Phil Stewart and Matt Spetalnick/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia is moving heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the ...
BATAYS, Yemen (AP) — In the Yemeni president's battle with Shiite rebels, one of his chief allies is a powerful southern militia leader, a one-time anti-government fighter who later led his men in a bloody campaign against al-Qaida./ At 34, Abdul-Lateef al-Sayed al-Bafqeeh is already a ...
Many see it the violence in Yemen as a proxy war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran. That's true to an extent, but risks oversimplification./ is in the midst of a civil war is now clear, contrary to the . Last week witnessed bloody fighting around the airport in the capital, ...
There were conflicting reports of whether President Hadi had fled his temporary capital in Aden after Shiite Houthi fighters took over Yemen's largest airbase, just 35 miles away./ ’s largest airbase Wednesday, located just 35 miles from the port city of set up a temporary capital last month. ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Yemen asked the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to back military action by "willing countries" to combat an advance by Shi'ite Muslim Houthi militia, according to a letter from President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi seen by Reuters. Hadi wants the 15-member body ...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that , killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, ...
The first grand opera to be produced in Saudi Arabia has had its opening performance in Riyadh - part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's massively ambitious plans to shift the kingdom into a new era, economically and socially./ Zarqa Al Yamama is the story of a blue-eyed tribal matriarch with ...
A baby rescued from her dying mother's womb after an Israeli air strike in southern Gaza has died, the BBC has learned./ Baby Sabreen al-Sakani was delivered by Caesarean section in a Rafah hospital shortly after midnight on Sunday./ Amid chaotic scenes doctors resuscitated the baby, using a ...
) — A video of a fight between a student and a substitute teacher at a Las Vegas valley high school was shared on social media Thursday, sources said. A substitute teacher and a student engaged in a fight, which was caught on camera at Valley High School in east Las Vegas. Sources indicated that ...
A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
A sign for the Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh's Market Square is pictured Feb. 8, 2016. Last week, the Newport Beach, California-based Mexican chain asked its U.S. and Canadian employees to temporarily select another protein option for their meals to preserve its supply of chicken. But the ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
The CCTV footage shown at the domestic abuse trial was disturbing: The defendant is seen dragging his wife by her hair, and then punching and kicking her. Hours after it was recorded, she died of brain trauma. The trial of businessman Kuandyk Bishimbayev, Kazakhstan's former economy minister, in ...
In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...