Yemeni gunmen, loyal to the Shiite Muslim Huthi movement that controls Sanaa, stand guard on December 5, 2014 outside the damaged house of the Iranian ambassador in the Yemeni capital Sanaa (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Tehran (AFP) - An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen has been freed and ...
A Shi'ite Houthi rebel in police uniform stands guard on a wall in downtown Sanaa Oct. 8, 2014. (Reuters)/ An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen has been freed and returned to Tehran on Thursday, official media reported. Nour-Ahmad Nikbakht was seized in July 2013 while leaving his home in ...
An Iranian diplomat held hostage in Yemen since 2013 returned home on Thursday following an intelligence operation to free him, Iranian state media reported, days after a kidnapped Saudi Arabian diplomat was freed in Yemen. Noor Ahmad Nikbakht, who was abducted by unidentified attackers in the ...
Iran said Thursday that a team of special operatives has freed an Iranian diplomat abducted more than 19 months ago in Yemen, a rare acknowledgement by Tehran of an intel operation carried out on foreign soil. The official IRNA news agency quoted deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian as ...
Iran's official news agency says that special operatives have freed an Iranian diplomat abducted more than 19 months ago in Yemen. IRNA quotes deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian as saying the intelligence officers carried out a "difficult and complicated operation" to secure the ...
An Iranian diplomat kidnapped and held in Yemen for almost 20 months has been freed and arrived Thursday back in Tehran, officials said. Iranian authorities credited an “intelligence operation” for the liberation of the diplomat, Nour Ahmad Nikbakh, but declined to provide specifics./ The freed ...
An Iranian diplomat kidnapped in Yemen in July 2013 has been released and returned home, state media said Thursday. Noor Ahmad Nikbakht was working at the Iranian embassy in Sana'a when suspected al-Qaida militants abducted him. Iran's deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs Hossein ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's official news agency says that special operatives have freed an Iranian diplomat abducted more than 19 months ago in Yemen. IRNA quotes deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdolahian as saying the intelligence officers carried out a "difficult and complicated ...
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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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Maryam Alwan figured the worst was over after New York City police in riot gear arrested her and other protesters on the Columbia University campus, loaded them onto buses and held them in custody for hours. But the next evening, the college junior received an email from the university. Alwan ...
News in the Middle East moves fast. One moment it is all about unprecedented missile and drone attacks between Iran and Israel. The next the headlines return to the fighting and suffering in Gaza./ But policymakers, analysts and military leaders are still absorbing the extraordinary exchange of ...
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Crouching in a shallow dip in the field, Moran Stella Yanai knew this time was different./ "I heard 'Coo-coo!' and we raised our heads up - the terrorists were standing [there], smiling," she said. "Everyone started to run, I jumped and broke my leg, and they caught me."/ Warning: This article ...
Om Fahad was sentenced to six months in prison last year for her social media videos (file image)/ Iraqi social media influencer Om Fahad has been shot dead outside her home in Baghdad, according to local media reports./ The attack happened in the capital's eastern Zayne neighbourhood on Friday ...
A crude oil tanker has been damaged in a missile attack off the coast of Yemen - the latest strike to be carried out by the Houthis./ The incident happened roughly 15 nautical miles south-west of the Yemeni city of Mocha./ British maritime security agency UKMTO reported that the Panama-flagged ...