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 ...
Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent home from the schools in Shuafat refugee camp/ Armed Israeli security forces have forced the closure of three schools run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. Hundreds of Palestinian students were sent ...
Hostages' families have urged Israel's prime minister to agree another deal with Hamas rather than expand the Gaza offensive/ Israel's prime minister has said there is "uncertainty" about the condition of three of 24 hostages previously believed to be alive in Hamas captivity in Gaza. Benjamin ...
Police block the entrance to the Israeli embassy during a protest in March/ The Israeli embassy in London was the alleged target of five Iranian men arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism, the BBC understands. Police have not yet confirmed that the embassy in Kensington was the ...
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed during 13 years of civil war/ "These," says Dr Anas al-Hourani, "are from a mixed mass grave." The head of the newly-opened Syrian Identification Centre is standing next to two tables, covered in femurs. There are 32 of the human thigh bones on each ...
The strikes in Gaza City come as Israel says it is preparing to intensify its military campaign against Hamas/ At least 20 Palestinians have been killed in two Israeli strikes on a crowded restaurant and market on the same street in Gaza City, medics say. Graphic videos posted on social media ...
The Houthis' top negotiator said their support for the Palestinian people in Gaza "will not change"/ A senior Houthi official has rejected US President Donald Trump's claim the Yemeni armed group "capitulated" when agreeing a ceasefire deal, saying the US "backed down" instead. "What changed is ...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told Israelis that "we are on the eve of an intense entry into Gaza." Israel would, he said, capture territory and hold it: "They will not enter and come out." The new offensive is calculated, according to the spokesperson for the Israel Defense ...
Trump says Houthis told administration they 'don't want to fight anymore'/ Donald Trump said the US would stop attacking the Houthis in Yemen because the group had "capitulated", as Oman confirmed a "ceasefire" had been reached with the Iran-backed group for it to stop targeting shipping in the ...
Smoke rises over the city of Sanaa, on 6 May, following an Israeli air strike/ The Israeli military has said it "fully disabled" Yemen's main airport in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthis. Tuesday's strikes targeted three civilian planes, the departures hall, the runway and a ...
Siwar's mother, Najwa, is struggling to find the right kind of formula milk her baby needs to survive/ Sometimes in war it is the smallest sound that can make the loudest statement. In Gaza's Nasser hospital, a five-month-old girl struggles to cry. Siwar Ashour is hoarse. Her voice has been ...