Amnesty International has accused the Arab coalition fighting in Yemen of carrying out unlawful air strikes, some of which amount to war crimes. The UK-based rights group on Wednesday called for the suspension of transfers of certain arms to members of the coalition, which launched an air campaign against Houthi[…]
The EFF will not go into coalitions with other parties, but would look at getting into what its leader Julius Malema called “contractual relationships”. Speaking at the Daily Maverick Gathering in Midrand, Johannesburg on Thursday, Malema said he would support anyone who advanced the national interest. “Whoever wants the votes[…]
Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that a strike force had arrived on the border with Yemen. It happened as Yemen’s Houthi militia and the Saudi-led coalition forces traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas on Monday, residents said, on the eve of a five-day humanitarian truce. The Houthis[…]
At least 40 people were killed Monday in an airstrike on a refugee camp in north-western Yemen, an official said as Houthi rebels advanced on the southern city of Aden despite air raids by a Saudi-led coalition. About 200 people were wounded in the airstrike on the Mazraq refugee camp[…]
Warplanes from a coalition led by Saudi Arabia have continued bombing Houthi targets in Yemen for a second day, including the Shia rebel group’s stronghold of Saada, a day after President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi arrived in the Saudi capital Riyadh. A spokesman of the coalition said on Thursday that the[…]
The US-led coalition pounded the Islamic State group with 39 air strikes Thursday and Friday, including more than a dozen near the flashpoint Syrian town of Kobane. The 13 strikes conducted Thursday in Kobane, which is known as Ain al-Arab in Arabic, destroyed 17 fighting positions, as well as IS[…]
France’s foreign minister has called for the US-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to help rebels in Syria’s second city Aleppo hold out against the Damascus regime. Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday that the coalition should not battle ISIL to the exclusion of supporting[…]
Top US diplomat John Kerry vowed Monday to build an enduring international coalition to defeat the Islamic State, saying almost every nation had a role to play in eliminating the groups terrorizing Iraq and Syria. Speaking only hours before leaving on a mission to solidify the hardening front against the[…]
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