Shiite rebels known as Houthis hold up their weapons during a protest to denounce the Saudi aggression in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Yemen's Shiite rebels, who have taken over large parts of the country and have faced a Saudi-led air assault, said Wednesday they welcome United ...
MOFFETT FIELD, California (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Wednesday he is concerned that Iranian ships heading toward Yemen may be carrying advanced weapons for the Houthi rebels, and moving a U.S. aircraft carrier to the region gives the president options./ Making his first public ...
Saudi Arabia has declared nearly a month of air strikes on Yemeni rebels a success, but at the cost of a resurgent Al-Qaeda and with no sign of peace yet./ "Mission accomplished," a Saudi newspaper proclaimed Wednesday, echoing a banner on a US warship where then-president George W. Bush ...
that the U.S. is sending "very direct messages" warning Iran against attempts to supply weapons to Houthi rebels in Yemen./ But the message to the American people has been a little more muddled. Throughout the day Tuesday, several administration spokesmen denied or downplayed any connection ...
Yemenis have been taken by surprise by a Saudi-led coalition's decision to end its air campaign against rebels, but they fear the crisis in their country is far from over./ Saudi-led warplanes pounded positions of the Huthi Shiite rebels and their allies for four weeks, after the insurgents ...
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition struck Houthi targets in villages north of Yemen's southern city of Aden early on Thursday, residents in the area said. Targets included tanks of the Iranian-allied Houthi movement, the residents told Reuters. On Tuesday, the coalition announced an end to a ...
Is the Obama Admin Now 'Doing Iran's Bidding'?/ An American aircraft carrier and its warplanes are shadowing an Iranian convoy approaching Yemen, as the U.S. beefs up its presence in the region -- but back in Washington, officials can't seem to agree on why. Pentagon sources confirmed to Fox ...
Saudi Arabia's military intervention in neighboring Yemen shows that the Sunni monarchy will stand up to Iran and that Arab states can protect their interests without U.S. leadership, the kingdom's ambassador to Britain said. Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf also said that the Saudi-led coalition that ...
MOFFETT FIELD, California (Reuters) - The United States is concerned a group of Iranian cargo ships may be carrying advanced weapons to Yemen, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday, as he called on Iran to avoid "fanning the flames" of the conflict with arms deliveries. Asked whether he ...
Yemeni supporters of the Shiite Huthi militia protest against the Saudi-led airstrikes during a rally in Taez, on April 3, 2015 (AFP Photo/Abdel Rahman Abdallah)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran said on Wednesday that it had held regional consultations "from the first hours" of Saudi-led air strikes in ...
Iran called on Wednesday for all sides in Yemen's conflict to start negotiations, saying long-term peace was possible a day after Saudi Arabia called an end to air strikes against Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels allied to Tehran. Saudi Arabia said its campaign against the Houthis in neighboring ...
Yemeni members of the southern separatist movement, allied to fugitive President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, hold a position on a road leading to the airport which they are attacking (in the background) on April 21, 2015 in the southern city of Aden (AFP Photo/Saleh al-Obeidi)/ Aden (AFP) - Ground ...
Smoke billows following a reported airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on Huthi rebels in Sanaa, on April 20, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Taez (Yemen) (AFP) - Saudi-led warplanes hit rebels in Yemen's third city Taez Wednesday as they seized a key army headquarters just hours after Riyadh ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's Shiite rebels have called for a massive rally in the capital, Sanaa, to mark the end of the month-long Saudi-led airstrikes campaign. The rebel-held Al-Masirah TV network urged supporters to take to the streets Wednesday, a day after Saudi Arabia announced an end to ...
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it was ending a month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels who seized large areas of Yemen and said it would back a political solution to bring peace to its war-ravaged neighbor. Iran, which has supported the fellow Shi'ite Houthis, welcomed ...
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it was ending a month-long campaign of air strikes against the Houthi rebels who seized large areas of Yemen and said it would back a political solution to bring peace to its war-ravaged neighbor. Iran, which has supported the fellow Shi'ite Houthis, welcomed ...
An American aircraft carrier and its warplanes are shadowing an Iranian convoy approaching Yemen, as the U.S. beefs up its presence in the region -- but back in Washington, officials can't seem to agree on why. Pentagon sources confirmed to Fox News that the USS Theodore Roosevelt is tracking ...
A Saudi-led coalition declared an end Tuesday to four weeks of air strikes in Yemen, saying the threat of Iran-backed rebels there had been removed and that operations are entering a political phase./ However, it left open the option of resuming strikes if the movements of the Huthi rebels ...
Iran's foreign ministry welcomed a halt to air strikes in Yemen, an Iranian news agency reported, in an apparent reference to an announcement by Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of an end to a military operation against Iranian-allied Houthi forces there. "Before this, we said the crisis in Yemen had no ...
Yemen's Houthi rebel movement said on Wednesday it wanted to return to United Nations-sponsored peace talks but only after a complete halt to a month of Saudi-led air strikes on the group. "We call for - after the complete cessation of the brutal aggression on Yemen and the total dismantling of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Yemen remains unstable and much more work needs to be done in the region, despite a declared halt to the Saudi-led bombing campaign in the country, the White House said on Wednesday. "Obviously, the job is not done," Jen Psaki, White House communications director, said on ...
Saudi officials had signaled that negotiations may be at hand in Yemen. But with Houthi advances continuing and a resumption of airstrikes, prospects of a political resolution have receded./ Saudi Arabia's announcement Tuesday that it was suspending airstrikes on the Houthi movement in Yemen ...
Yemenis check the damage following a raid by Saudi-led coalition warplanes on a missile depot on Fajj Attan hill in Sanaa, on April 20, 2015 (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Geneva (AFP) - The violence raging in Yemen since late March has killed 944 people and injured 3,487 as of April 17, the World ...
Two air strikes in Yemen on Tuesday killed at least 40 people, most of them civilians and wounded dozens of others, medical sources said. One strike hit a bridge in central Ibb province as cars carrying militia members were driving on it, residents said, killing at least 20 people, mostly ...
A Saudi-led coalition bombed Yemeni rebel positions in southern Yemen with five air strikes on Wednesday, Saudi state TV channel Al Ekhbariya reported. The raid in Lahj province is the second bombing by the Arab alliance against the Iran-allied Houthi group since Saudi Arabia announced the end ...
Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh welcomed Saudi Arabia's declared end to air strikes against his Houthi militia allies and called for the renewal of political dialogue to guide the country out of turmoil. "We hope that everybody will return to dialogue to solve and treat all the ...
(Recasts with with Rouhani, adds southern Yemeni fighters) * Rouhani calls for an end to military intervention * Saudi Arabia said it would back political solution ANKARA, April 22 (Reuters) - Iran called on Wednesday for all sides in Yemen's conflict to start negotiations, saying long-term ...
Iran-allied Houthi rebels took over a military brigade in the central Yemeni city of Taiz early on Wednesday after heavy fighting, residents and a local official told Reuters. An air strike was conducted on the military brigade shortly after the takeover, they said. Saudi Arabia announced on ...
Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday welcomed an announcement by Saudi Arabia of an end to a military operation against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, saying there should now be urgent humanitarian help and political talks to resolve the conflict./ Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday it ...
Iran's deputy foreign minister said he was optimistic that a ceasefire in the Yemen conflict would be announced later on Tuesday, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported. "We are optimistic that in the coming hours, after many efforts, we will see a halt to military attacks in Yemen," Hossein ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the U.S. government had sent "very direct messages" to Iran warning it not to send weapons to Yemen that could be used to threaten shipping traffic in the region. The Pentagon said on Tuesday the presence of a large convoy of Iranian ...
Militiamen in southern Yemen said late on Tuesday they would continue fighting Iran-allied Houthi rebels until they drive them out of the region, despite Saudi Arabia saying it would end air strikes. "This front will not stop its fight until all the south is purified from the Houthis and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States government has warned Iran against delivering weapons to Yemen that could be used to threaten shipping traffic in the region. "We've been actually very straightforward to them," Obama said in a televised interview on ...
Yemen president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi thanked Saudi Arabia and the Arab military coalition for their support of his "legitimacy" in a televised speech on Wednesday. "I extend on my behalf and on behalf of the Yemeni people sincere thanks and appreciation for the Arab and Muslim brothers and our ...
A senior leader in Yemen's Houthi militia said a political agreement had almost been reached to end almost a month of conflict involving Saudi-led air strikes against the group. Abdel Malek al-Ijri, a member of the Iran-allied movement's politburo, expressed "surprise" at an announcement by a ...
Iran's foreign ministry welcomed a halt to air strikes in Yemen, an Iranian news agency reported, in an apparent reference to an announcement by Saudi Arabia on Tuesday of an end to a military operation against Iranian-allied Houthi forces there. "Before this, we said the crisis in Yemen had no ...
A Saudi-led coalition will continue to target movements by the Houthi militia group inside Yemen, Saudi spokesman Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri said on Tuesday. "The coalition will continue to prevent the movement of Houthi militias from moving or undertaking any operations inside Yemen," ...
Iran's deputy foreign minister said he was optimistic that a ceasefire in Yemen would be announced later on Tuesday, in a sign diplomatic efforts may be underway to stop almost a month of Saudi-led bombing of Yemen's Houthi group. Iran has repeatedly called for a halt to an almost month-long ...
The Saudi-led coalition bombing Yemen announced on Tuesday the end to a military operation that pounded the Iran-allied Houthi rebels for more than three weeks, a statement read on Saudi-owned Arabiya TV said. The alliance had achieved its military goals in Yemen through the campaign dubbed ...
Iran's deputy foreign minister said he was optimistic that a ceasefire in the Yemen conflict would be announced later on Tuesday, the Iranian Tasnim news agency reported. Iran has consistently called for a halt to Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen, but representatives of the coalition that Riyadh ...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday ordered the Saudi Arabian National Guard, widely regarded as the kingdom's best equipped military ground force, to take part in Riyadh's campaign against Iran-allied Houthi rebels in Yemen. Military operations in the campaign have so far been carried out by ...
President Barack Obama called on Iran help find a political solution in crisis-torn Yemen, accusing the Islamic republic of contributing to the conflict there. Washington has accused Tehran of supplying arms to Houthi rebels who have seized power in Yemen, triggering a month-long Saudi-led Arab ...
TEHRAN – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Tuesday that Iran is optimistic about an end to military attacks on Yemen in the future hours. Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks at the beginning of trilateral meeting of Iran, Syria and ...
The US state department has found five units of the Israeli military responsible for gross violations of human rights in individual incidents, but says they will continue to receive US military backing./ All the incidents involved took place outside of Gaza before the current war./ Israel took ...
Nika was just 16 years old when she disappeared during protests against Iran's strict dress code for women [Atash Shakarami]/ An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran's security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces ...
It may be spring, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to summer weather, especially when – is rapidly weakening and will all but vanish by the time the season kicks into gear. El Niño’s disappearing act doesn’t mean relief from the heat. Not when the world is heating up due to climate change. In ...
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Sam Attar reckons he left part of his soul in Gaza. It was the part of him that saw suffering and could not turn away. The part which now cannot forget./ You can be on the shores of Lake Michigan on an overcast spring day, the wind whipping up waves on the green water. And at the very same time ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says the US is the only country that can stop Israel from attacking Rafah, the southern Gaza city where more than a million people are taking refuge./ Mr Abbas, who runs parts of the occupied West Bank, said any attack could see Palestinians flee Gaza./ On ...
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