SANAA, Yemen — The leader of Yemen’s Houthi rebels has met with U.N. envoy Martin Griffiths in the capital Sanaa to discuss reviving peace talks to end the country’s four-year-old stalemated war. Tuesday’s statement by the rebels says Abdul-Malek al-Houthi called for the Saudi-led coalition ...
An image grab taken from a video released by Yemen's Huthi rebels allegedly shows detained pro-government fighters captured in an August offensive (AFP Photo/-)/ Dubai (United Arab Emirates) (AFP) - Some 200 pro-government fighters were killed in Yemen and more than 1,000 taken prisoner in an ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ The detainees released on Monday included 42 survivors of an air strike on a Houthi-run prison Yemen's Houthi rebels have unilaterally released 290 detainees as part of a UN peace initiative, the International Committee of the Red Cross ...
Yemeni rebels said Sunday they carried out a major assault on forces of a Saudi Arabian-led coalition near the border between the two nations, and released footage that they said shows hundreds of captured troops, including Saudi officers, and destroyed Saudi military vehicles. The rebels also ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Houthi rebels in Yemen say they have captured a large number of Saudi troops after a major attack near the border between the two countries. A Houthi spokesman told the BBC that three Saudi brigades had surrendered near the Saudi town of ...
26PM [Updated: Sat Sep 28, 2019 03:52PM ]/ The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, speaks at a press conference in the capital Sana’a on September 28, 2019. (Photo by Arabic-language al-Masirah television network)/ The spokesman for Yemeni Armed Forces says three ...
25PM [Updated: Mon Sep 30, 2019 03:51PM ]/ Iranian administration's spokesman Ali Rabiei speaks during a news conference in the capital Tehran on July 22, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ The spokesman for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's administration has confirmed that Saudi leaders have been sending ...
15AM [Updated: Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:21AM ]/ Iran has dismissed its nuclear case being sent back to the UN Security Council if Tehran goes ahead with its pledge to take new steps away from the 2015 deal in response to European failures. The reaction by Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi on ...
28AM [Updated: Mon Sep 30, 2019 11:48AM ]/ The head of Yemen’s National Committee for Prisoners Affairs (NCPA), Abdulqader Al-Mortada, speaks in a news conference in Sana'a on September 30, 2019./ The head of Yemen’s National Committee for Prisoners Affairs (NCPA) says the Houthi movement will ...
50PM [Updated: Sun Sep 29, 2019 07:41PM ]/ Smoke billows during clashes between soldiers loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed former government and Houthi Ansarullah fighters in the city of Ta'izz on May 30, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Iran has slammed Saudi Arabia for the continuation of its warmongering ...
59PM [Updated: Sun Sep 29, 2019 04:28PM ]/ Yemeni Army has released the footage of a large-scale military offensive carried out by Yemeni soldiers and allied fighters from Popular Committees in Saudi Arabia’s southern border region of Najran, where three Saudi military brigades were completely ...
32AM [Updated: Sun Sep 29, 2019 11:44AM ]/ Saudi Arabia’s failure to defend itself against recent retaliatory attacks by Yemeni forces is proof that the Saudi military is in no way competent and just a “fraud,” says an American political analyst. The remarks by Brian Downing, a US journalist and ...
21AM [Updated: Sun Sep 29, 2019 12:21AM ]/ Yemen’s Ansarullah movement rejected a Saudi partial ceasefire as “not good enough” and called for a comprehensive cessation of aggression against the Arab country. Ansarullah released a statement outlining its stance on claims that Saudi Arabia ...
The Israeli military has admitted to BBC Verify that it conducted a previously unacknowledged strike on the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza, which reportedly killed at least one Palestinian and injured 30 others. The strike took place on Sunday - hours after 31 Palestinians were killed in an ...
The UN's human rights chief has demanded the US government withdraw sanctions it imposed on four judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Volker Türk said in a statement that "attacks against judges" run directly counter to "respect for the rule of law and the equal protection of the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that Israel is arming clans in Gaza that he says are opposed to Hamas. His comments came after Israeli media reports quoted defence sources as saying Netanyahu had authorised giving weapons to one particular group in the south of Gaza. ...
Flames seen in southern Beirut following Israel strikes/ Israel has carried out several air strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, saying it was targeting Hezbollah's drone production. The attack on Thursday night, the eve of Eid Al Adha, one of the most important celebrations in Islam, followed ...
The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem said it condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the attack on al-Ahli hospital/ Five people have been killed in an Israeli strike on al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, according to the Anglican Church, which operates it. The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem said ...
Feras Kilani stands in front of Syrian security forces in Damascus, two days before he was detained by Israeli forces to the south/ On the morning of 9 May, I was part of a BBC Arabic team which left the Syrian capital, Damascus, for the southern province of Deraa. From there we planned to go to ...
Judi Weinstein Haggai and her husband Gadi Haggai were killed during the attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz/ Israeli forces have recovered the bodies of two Israeli Americans taken back to Gaza as hostages during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, the Israeli military says. Judi ...
US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea said the vote would "undermine"/ The US has vetoed the UN Security Council's draft resolution calling for an "unconditional and permanent" ceasefire in Gaza. The other 14 members voted in favour of the document, which also demanded the release of all hostages ...
World leaders 'obligated' to save lives in Gaza, says head of ICRC/ Gaza has become worse than hell on earth, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross has told the BBC. In an interview at the ICRC's headquarters in Geneva, the organisation's president Mirjana Spoljaric said ...
Gaza has become worse than hell on Earth, according to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric. Speaking to the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Spoljaric says what is happening in Gaza surpasses any ...