(adds reports of bombing, border clashes, Iran ship) May 21 (Reuters) - Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official said. Artillery fire and air strikes hit the town of Maydee along ...
United Nations (United States) (AFP) - A United Nations conference to re-launch political talks in Yemen will open in Geneva next week, a UN spokesman said Wednesday, despite uncertainty over who will attend the gathering./ UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the May 28 meeting was to "restore ...
Saudi shells hit an international humanitarian aid office in northern Yemen, killing five Ethiopian refugees and wounding ten, a local official said. Artillery fire and air strikes hit the town of Maydee along Yemen's border with the kingdom in Hajja province, a stronghold of the Iran-allied ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's deputy foreign minister says an Iranian aid ship will be first inspected by the United Nations in Djibouti, before it's allowed to proceed to Yemen's shores. Hossein Amir Abdollahian told the semi-official ISNA news agency on Wednesday that the vessel Nejat, or Rescue, ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition bombed Shiite rebels in at least five northern Yemeni provinces on Wednesday as the United Nations set the date for peace talks on the country's crisis for next week in Geneva./ It was not immediately clear if any of the warring factions would attend ...
Iran said on Wednesday its aid ship bound for war-torn Yemen is to dock in Djibouti for inspection, heading off a potential confrontation with the United States./ The aid "will be inspected in Djibouti. The ship will dock in Djibouti and the protocol laid down by the United Nations will be ...
Saudi-led warplanes intensified their air strikes against Yemeni rebels in the capital Wednesday, fuelling panic as political efforts to end a war that has displaced half a million people foundered./ The Arab coalition has waged an air campaign against the Iran-backed Shiite rebels since March ...
May 20 The captain of an Iranian aid ship heading for Yemen expects to enter the Bab al-Mandeb strait linking the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea on Thursday morning, state news agency IRNA reported. "If the weather and the ship's technical conditions persist ... we will enter the Bab al-Mandeb ...
TEHRAN, May 20 (Xinhua) -- UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, will visit Iran to discuss the situation in the war-torn country, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said Wednesday. "We have contacts with the UN envoy and we offered political solutions to the crisis in ...
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that two Iranian warships have "linked up" with a cargo ship that Iran has said is carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen, as activists on board the vessel said it was due to arrive at the Yemeni port of Hodaida on Thursday. "We're not overly concerned at this point," ...
Iran will allow the United Nations to inspect a Yemen-bound aid ship at the regional U.N. hub in Djibouti, Tehran's deputy foreign minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday, offering a chance to avert a showdown with Saudi-led forces. Earlier in the day, the Iran Shahed's captain had said the ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Residents of Sanaa say a Saudi-led coalition has carried out the heaviest strikes on the Yemeni capital since the expiration of a truce with Shiite rebels, striking weapons depots and shaking residential areas several miles (kilometers) away. Witnesses say the strikes began ...
Saudi-led warplanes pounded rebel targets in Yemen's capital Tuesday for the first time since the end of a five-day ceasefire, as hopes of a political breakthrough in the conflict fade./ A UN-sponsored peace conference for Yemen originally set for next week has been put on hold due to the ...
An Iranian cargo ship heading to Yemen is expected to cross into the Red Sea on Thursday, state news agency IRNA reported, amid fears of a showdown with Saudi-led forces enforcing restrictions on Yemeni ports. The approaching vessel threatens to broaden a regional confrontation over Yemen -- ...
An Iranian aid ship heading to Yemen is likely to divert to Djibouti for international inspections, Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies reported on Wednesday without citing any sources. Fars said the Iran Shahed would dock in Dijbouti for inspections by the United Nations. Tasnim said the ship ...
The captain of an Iranian cargo ship which Iran says is carrying thousands of tonnes of aid to Yemen expects to enter the Bab al-Mandeb strait linking the Gulf of Aden with the Red Sea on Thursday morning, state news agency IRNA reported. By crossing the strait, the Iran Shahed will sail past ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations will sponsor Yemeni political talks in Geneva on May 28, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement released on Wednesday. "The Secretary-General is pleased to announce the launch of inclusive consultations starting on 28 May in Geneva to ...
Iran will allow the United Nations to inspect an aid shipment to Yemen, the ISNA agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying on Wednesday. "We have decided to dock our ship in Djibouti so the United Nations inspection protocol can take place," Abdollahian was quoted ...
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition carried out the most sustained bombardment of Yemen's capital Sanaa in nearly two months of air strikes on Tuesday night, residents of the city said, hitting army bases and weapons depots./ It was the first time air strikes continued from morning until after ...
WASHINGTON — Two Iranian warships have joined a cargo ship that Tehran says is carrying supplies to Yemen. U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren says the ships linked up overnight Monday, setting up a possible conflict as the U.S. insists the supplies go to Djibouti, where the United Nations is ...
A Yemen-bound Iranian aid ship is not being escorted by Iranian warships and is due to arrive in the port of Hodaida on Thursday, two foreign activists onboard the vessel told Reuters on Tuesday. A coalition of Arab countries led by Saudi Arabia has imposed searches on all ships trying to enter ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday that two Iranian warships had linked up with a cargo ship that Iran says is carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen, adding it was monitoring the ships "every step of the way." "We're not overly concerned at this point. It's a single ship that we’ve ...
TEHRAN – The UN secretary general’s special envoy for Yemen is going to travel to Iran soon. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed of Mauritania announced his upcoming trip in a phone conversation with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for African and Arab Affair Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Tuesday. In their ...
طبق پیش بینی هواشناسی استان تهران، در پنج روز آینده وضعیت جوی استان تهران، آسمان صاف تا کمی ابری در ساعات بعدازظهر همراه با افزایش نسبی وزش باد پیش بینی می شود./ پیش بینی های هواشناسی استان تهران نشان می دهد دمای هوای پایتخت در روزهای آینده همراه با افزایش نسبی خواهد بود و از طرفی دیگر از اوایل ...
منبع وابسته به حماس افزود: هیأت حماس خواستار آن شده است که مراحل آزادی اسرای اسرائیلی با مراحل عقب نشینی کامل نظامیان ارتش رژیم اشغالگر از نوار غزه مرتبط باشد./ یکی از رهبران جنبش مقاومت اسلامی فلسطین از پایان جلسه مذاکرات روز دوم بین میانجی ها و هیأت حماس در شرم الشیخ مصر خبر داد./ به گزارش ...
حفاری چاه اکتشافی دوم این میدان پارسال آغاز شد و پس از انجام آزمایش ها و بررسی های دقیق، موفق به شناسایی دو لایه جدید نفتی و گازی شدیم. حجم گاز کشف شده جدید حدود ۱۰ هزار میلیارد فوت مکعب برآورد می شود و انتظار می رود با حفاری چاه سوم، این رقم افزایش یابد. حجم گاز کشف شده جدید در این میدان معادل ...
عبدالعاطی در ادامه اشاره کرد که مذاکرات در شرم الشیخ میان هیئت های اسرائیلی و حماس با مشارکت منطقه ای ادامه دارد و فردا هیئت آمریکایی در این مذاکرات حضور خواهد داشت./ وزیر خارجه مصر در کنفرانس مطبوعاتی با همتای آلمانی خود خبر داد که هیئت آمریکایی به ریاست استیو ویتکاف، فرستاده ویژه آمریکا به ...
به گزارش ایلنا، «خالد قدومی» نماینده جنبش اسلامی فلسطین (حماس) در ایران روز سه شنبه و در رویداد ملی «ایران همدل» که در حسینیه امام خمینی(ره) برگزار شد، در سخنانی به تقدیر از رهبر، ملت و دولت ایران در حمایت از مردم غزّه و مقاومت فلسطین پرداخت./ قدومی ضمن گرامیداشت سالروز عملیات طوفان الاقصی، این ...
سخنگوی یونیسف اعلام کرد که هر ۱۷ دقیقه، یک کودک در غزه کشته یا زخمی می شود. به گزارش ایسنا، «ریکاردو بیرس»، سخنگوی صندوق کودکان سازمان ملل متحد (یونیسف)، اعلام کرد که کودکان غزه در وحشتی زندگی می کنند که هیچ کودکی نباید آن را تجربه کند، و این به دلیل نسل کشی ای است که رژیم صهیونیستی طی دو سال ...
پیش از این وزیر دفاع دولت موقت سوریه اعلام کرده بود که امروز با فرمانده نیروهای دموکراتیک سوریه (قسد) در دمشق دیدار کرده و درباره توافق آتش بس فراگیر به توافق رسیدند./ رسانه ها از دیدار رئیس جمهور سوریه با فرمانده شبه نظامیان کُرد در دمشق خبر دادند. به گزارش ایسنا، «احمد الشرع» رئیس دوره انتقالی ...
کاخ سفید با عقب نشینی از اظهارات قبلی رئیس جمهور آمریکا هشدار داد که ادامه تعطیلی دولت فدرال به اخراج گسترده کارکنان دولتی منجر می شود./ با ورود آمریکا به هفتمین روز تعطیلی دولت فدرال، کاخ سفید اعلام کرد که ممکن است ادامه این روند به اخراج گسترده کارکنان دولتی منجر شود. دونالد ترامپ، رئیس جمهور ...
طبق ادعای این روزنامه، اجرای این طرح با استقرار گردان های اضافی از ارتش رژیم صهیونیستی با هدف کنترل کامل بر نوار غزه و تقسیم آن به پنج منطقه نظامی بسته آغاز خواهد شد که در آنها فقط نظامیان صهیونیستی مجاز به ورود هستند و مانع از فعالیت گروه های مقاومت غزه در آن مناطق خواهند شد./ روزنامه «تایمز» ...
سخنگوی کمیسیون اقتصادی گفت: در جلسه امروز کمیسیون اقتصادی با رئیس بانک مرکزی تأکید شد که باید بانک مرکزی سیاست های ارزی خود را در چارچوب ماده ۱۱ قانون برنامه هفتم توسعه اصلاح کند تا ثبات به بازار ارزی بازگردد./ حاکم ممکان در گفت وگو با ایسنا، با اشاره به جلسه عصر امروز کمیسیون اقتصادی گفت: این ...