Saudi-led air strikes against Houthi rebel targets have continued unabated in Yemen, hours after the Red Cross called for a 24-hour ceasefire to give aid workers a chance to address the growing crisis in the country. The aerial bombardment, which reportedly focused on the capital Sanaa, came as the United[…]
Rebel forces have withdrawn from Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s palace in his former southern stronghold in Aden after overnight air raids by the Saudi-led coalition, a senior official said. “The Houthi militia and their allies withdrew before dawn from the Al-Maashiq palace,” the official in Aden, who did not[…]
Houthi forces pulled back from positions in central Aden after air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition, residents of the southern Yemeni port city said. They said a unit of Houthi and allied fighters, who had advanced in tanks and armoured vehicles through Aden’s Khor Maksar district 24 hours earlier, pulled[…]
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[…]
Aid workers say at least 15 people have been killed in north Yemen after an airstrike hit a camp for internally displaced people. The humanitarian agency, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said on Monday that the Al-Mazraq camp in the northwestern Hajjah province was bombed. “It was an air strike,” Pablo[…]
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 turmoil in Yemen grew into a regional conflict Thursday, with Saudi Arabia and its allies bombing Shiite rebels allied with Iran, while Egyptian officials said a ground assault will follow the airstrikes. Iran denounced the Saudi-led air campaign, saying it “considers this action a dangerous step,” and oil prices jumped[…]
Saudi air strikes on Shia rebels in Yemen have triggered a furious reaction from regional rival Iran, with top officials warning that military action could spill into other countries. Saudi Arabia said that a coalition consisting of 10 countries, including members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), had begun air[…]
Saudi Arabia and a coalition of regional allies have launched a military operation in Yemen against the Houthi rebels, who deposed the US-backed Yemeni president last month. Adel al-Jubair, Saudi ambassador to the US, said on Wednesday that a coalition consisting of 10 countries, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC),[…]
Yemen’s foreign minister has called for an “immediate” Arab military intervention against advancing Shiite rebels. Riad Yassin told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite news network on Wednesday that Yemen had asked Arab countries – especially oil-rich Gulf Sunni countries – to send air and naval forces to counter Shiite rebels known[…]
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