The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen on Monday blamed ceasefire violations by rebels for the resumption of air strikes against them./ "They did not respect the humanitarian pause. That's why we do what is necessary to be done," Brigadier General Ahmed al-Assiri told AFP. The Arab-dominated ...
Saudi-led coalition warplanes resumed strikes on rebel positions in southern Yemen on Monday after a five-day ceasefire expired, jeopardising efforts to deliver desperately needed aid./ The humanitarian truce ended at 2000 GMT Sunday despite calls from a UN envoy and relief agencies for an ...
Qahira castle, an ancient fortress that was recently taken over by Shiite rebels, following a Saudi-led airstrike in Taiz city, Yemen, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition kept up their airstrikes in Yemen on Tuesday, targeting the positions of Shiite rebels and their ...
Qahira castle, an ancient fortress that was recently taken over by Shiite rebels, following a Saudi-led airstrike in Taiz city, Yemen, Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition kept up their airstrikes in Yemen on Tuesday, targeting the positions of Shiite rebels and their ...
led coalition resumed airstrikes targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen on Monday in the southern port city of Aden with U.S. support, after a five-day truce came to a close following talks on the war-torn country's future that were boycotted by the rebels. Coalition airstrikes hit rebel positions and ...
TEHRAN, May 18 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif called on Monday for the United Nations' assistance to deliver humanitarian supplies to Yemen, Tasnim news agency reported. "The UN needs to create a protected zone in Yemen so that humanitarian aid could be delivered," ...
A plane carrying emergency medical provided by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is unloaded in Sanaa on May 16, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Riyadh (AFP) - A five-day truce to allow aid into war-ravaged Yemen ended at 2000 GMT on Sunday with no immediate word from the Saudi-led ...
Fighters loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi run with their weapons in Aden on May 16, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saleh Al-Obeidi)/ Aden (AFP) - Coalition air strikes resumed against rebel positions in Yemen's main southern city Aden after a five-day ceasefire expired late ...
The senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Saudi Arabia could not host talks between Yemen's warring factions, as it was involved in the conflict in Yemen. Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Muslim allies have been conducting an offensive against Houthis ...
Two Iranian warships have begun escorting the Yemen-bound Iran Shahed cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, the vessel's captain said in remarks published by Iran's Tasnim news agency on Monday. "The 34th fleet has made contact with us and told us that they will keep an active presence alongside the ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Hundreds of Yemeni politicians and tribal leaders began talks Sunday in Saudi Arabia on the future of their war-torn country as a five-day humanitarian cease-fire was set to expire, though Shiite rebels there were not taking part./ The cease-fire, scheduled to end at ...
Air strikes by Saudi-led forces hit Houthi rebel positions in and around the southern Yemeni city of Aden overnight, residents said, after a five-day humanitarian truce expired on Sunday night. Bombings struck the rebel-held presidential palace in the downtown area, groups of militiamen on the ...
Iranian Red Crescent workers load aid onto the 'Iran Shahed' ship in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on December 28, 2008 ahead of a journey to the Gaza Strip (AFP Photo/)/ Tehran (AFP) - An Iranian aid ship bound for Yemen in defiance of US warnings has entered the Gulf of Aden and is ...
A UN envoy called for an extension of a humanitarian ceasefire in Yemen due to expire on Sunday as the Huthi Shiite rebels boycotted political talks in Riyadh./ The appeal followed clashes on the ground between rebels and pro-government forces that killed dozens across south Yemen on Saturday ...
Yemen's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi was to open a conference of political parties from his war-torn country on Sunday but Iran-backed Huthi Shiite rebels are boycotting the talks./ The Huthis, who are fighting forces loyal to Hadi and have seized large parts of the country including ...
A Saudi Arabian-led coalition resumed air strikes against Yemen's Houthi militia in Aden overnight, hours after the expiry of a truce meant to facilitate badly needed humanitarian aid, a Reuters eyewitness said. The witness said explosions could be heard near the southern city's airport and the ...
The U.N. envoy to Yemen on Sunday called on a Saudi-led military coalition and its adversaries to extend a humanitarian truce due to expire at 2000 GMT (4 p.m. ET), to allow for more aid to be delivered to Yemenis. Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed made his appeal at the opening of a ...
An Iranian cargo ship carrying aid and activists crossed into the Gulf of Aden on Sunday and will reach Yemen's Hodaida port on May 21, Iranian media reported, in a challenge to Saudi-led naval forces controlling Yemeni waters./ A coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia has imposed ...
Dubbed Nejat (Rescue), Iran's ship carrying an international group of humanitarian aid workers, medical technicians, and peace. (file photo)/ Iran’s Nejat ship with its cargo of humanitarian aid for Yemen has passed Oman and reached the coast of the war-torn country. Iran Shahed, carrying 2,500 ...
An Iranian aid ship entered the Gulf of Aden on Monday on its way to Yemen in a challenge to Saudi Arabia's blockade of Yemeni ports. , was chartered by Iran's Red Crescent Society, the counterpart of the Red Cross, and is carrying 2,500 tons of food and medical supplies, Iranian media claimed. ...
TEHRAN – An Iranian aid ship bound for Yemen in defiance of U.S. warnings has passed Oman, entered the Gulf of Aden, and is expected to reach the Yemeni port of Hodeida on Thursday. The vessel, the Iran Shahed, is carrying 2,500 tons of aid including flour, rice, canned food, medical supplies, ...
Iran’s Foreign Ministers Mohamad Javad Zarif (R) and his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto are seen during a press conference in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on May 18, 2015./ Iran’s Foreign Ministers Mohamad Javad Zarif has called for the extension of a truce in Yemen, slamming the United ...
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 ...
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop./ For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital./ She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 ...
This undated photo provided by University of Wisconsin Marketing & Communications, shows UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan has started the process in late March 2024, to strip Gow, the former chancellor who was fired over his ...
Satellite images show two new tent encampments in southern Gaza as reports suggest Israel's military is preparing for an offensive in the city of Rafah./ Rafah, by the border with Egypt, is the only city in Gaza it has not yet entered. Well over a million people have been sheltering there for ...
Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Dogra Front shout slogans against Chinese President Xi Jinping next to a banner showing the logos of TikTok and other Chinese apps banned in India during a protest in Jammu, India, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)/ NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular ...
More than six months into the devastating Gaza war, its impact on the Israeli and Palestinian economies has been huge./ Nearly all economic activity in Gaza has been wiped out and the World Bank says the war has also hit Palestinian businesses in the occupied West Bank hard./ As Israelis mark ...
Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. A photographer who worked for the hip-hop star said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 23, 2024, that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was ...
HELENA, Ga. (AP) — Someone using a magnet to fish for metal objects in a Georgia creek pulled up a rifle as well as some lost belongings of a couple found slain in the same area more than nine years ago. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says driver's licenses, credit cards and other items ...
A man killed his wife and three of his children in an apparent murder-suicide mass shooting at a home in Oklahoma, according to police. Oklahoma City police said they were notified around 9:35 a.m. Monday and responding officers found the five bodies inside the house. Jonathon Candy, 42, ...