UAE is talking to Iran because it wants to withdraw from the Yemen debacle: Askari
Tehran Times – Professor Hossein Askari, an expert on Saudi Arabia who also teaches international business at the George Washington University, believes…
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Yemen attacks Saudi oil field at Shaybah with 10 drones: TV
Press TV – Yemeni forces have conducted attacks on an oil field affiliated to Saudi Aramco in the east of the kingdom…
France urges Saudi, UAE to end dirty war on Yemen despite arms sales
Alwaght – French Foreign Minister on Tuesday called on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to end a bloody aggression on…
Yemen launches fresh retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia
Press TV – Yemeni armed forces have conducted fresh retaliatory attacks on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan region. The al-Masirah TV channel reported on…
Yemenis hold funeral for victims of deadly Saudi air raids on Sana’a
Press TV – Yemeni people have held a mass funeral for victims of last week’s Saudi airstrikes on the capital Sana’a, venting…
World is failing children in Yemen
FNA – According to the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the time is now for the international community to take…
Iran strongly condemns Saudi-led airstrikes on Sanaa residential areas
MNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi severely condemned recent Saudi-led air raids on Yemen’s capital of Sanaa on Thursday which…
6 civilians killed in Saudi strikes on Yemen’s capital
Press TV – At least six civilians, including children, have been killed and dozens of others wounded in multiple airstrikes by a…
Yemeni retaliatory drone raids on Saudi Arabia had no links to Iran: Ansarullah
Press TV – A senior member of the Houthi Ansarullah movement says Yemen’s recent retaliatory drone strikes on a vital oil pipeline…
Yemeni drones launch retaliatory raids against vital Saudi facilities: Al-Masirah
Press TV – Seven drones run by Yemeni armed forces have reportedly carried out attacks against vital Saudi facilities in response to…
Iran hails Yemen’s compliance with Stockholm deal after Houthis pullout from ports
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry praised the Yemeni National Salvation Government’s compliance with the Stockholm ceasefire agreement after the Houthi forces withdrew…
What’s behind Ansarullah’s withdrawal from three major ports?
Alwaght – The Yemeni conflict developments continue as on the one hand the United Nations envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths has stepped…
Houthis begin unilateral withdrawal from Hudaydah ports
Press TV – Yemen’s Houthi forces have started unilateral withdrawal from Saleef and Ras Isa ports in Hudaydah province under a United Nations-sponsored peace…
Iran: US claims on Yemen cover-up for Saudi-Emirati crimes
FNA – Tehran strongly rejected the recent claims made by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about Iran’s negative role in Yemen,…
Yemeni forces fire 17 retaliatory missiles at Saudi Arabia’s Asir
Press TV – Yemeni forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees have fired 17 missiles at Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Asir region in retaliation for…
Saudi Arabia seeking face-saving withdrawal from Yemen
IRNA – Saudi Arabia seems to making every endavor to pull itself out of quagmire of Yemen conflict, the deadly theater which…
Aid charity Oxfam warns of ‘massive resurgence of cholera’ in Yemen
Press TV – Oxfam International, a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations, has warned of a “massive resurgence of cholera” amid an…
Iran slams Trump’s veto of Yemen war bill
Tasnim – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif denounced the US president’s veto of a congressional resolution to end US military assistance…
Trump’s veto over Yemen is a scandalous abuse of presidential power
The Guardian | Simon Tisdall: Expected or not, Donald Trump’s veto of a bipartisan Congressional resolution to end US military involvement in…
Iran condemns deadly Saudi-led air raid on Yemeni civilians
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned an aerial attack by the Saudi-led military coalition on a residential area in Yemen’s capital…
New Saudi airstrikes kill 13 civilians, including schoolchildren, in Yemen
Press TV – More than a dozen civilians, most of them schoolchildren, have been killed in the latest round of airstrikes by Saudi…
Iran says it seeks peace and stability in Yemen, entire region
AP — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says his country wants an end to the war in Yemen. Speaking after a meeting with…
Pope blames Europe, US weapons for children killed in wars
AP — Pope Francis blamed Europe and the United States for the deaths of children in Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan, saying Saturday…
Not too late to stop nightmare of war on Yemen, Zarif tells Saudis
Press TV – On the eve of the fifth year of Saudi Arabia’s bloody war on Yemen, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad…
Iran urges Yemen ceasefire, end to economic blockade
Press TV – Iran’s Foreign Ministry says the Islamic Republic supports an overarching ceasefire in Yemen while calling for an end to…
Iran, EU to hold 5th round of talks on Yemen
MNA – The 5th round of talks between Iran and the European Union on the latest development in Yemen is slated to…
Yemenis downed 19 Saudi Apache copters during war: Army spokesman
Press TV – Yemen’s army says the country’s air defense has managed to shoot down 19 Saudi Apache helicopters since the outbreak…
If you ‘care’ about Yemenis, back Saudi war: Pompeo to senators
Press TV – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has rebuked senators for passing a resolution to end Washington’s support for the…
Senate votes to end US aid in Saudi fight in Yemen
The Wall Street Journal – The Senate approved a measure on Wednesday that would end U.S. military assistance for the Saudi-led war…
Twenty-two civilians killed, including children, in north Yemen: U.N.
Reuters – Air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition killed at least 22 civilians, including women and children, this week in a village…
Iran urges halt to arms sales for resolution of Yemen crisis
Tasnim – Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman called on Western governments like Britain to show serious determination to resolve the conflict in Yemen…
In Yemen, war can reach children wherever they are: UN
Press TV – The United Nations’ children’s agency says the war in Yemen continues to take a “horrific toll” on children despite…
Yemen truce victim of Riyadh, allies’ militarism
Alwaght – The UN on February 18 in a statement announced that after several rounds of talks and a resultant agreement between…
Over 80,000 kids under the age of five have died of starvation in Yemen, UN chief says
Press TV – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says tens of thousands of children under the age of five have died of…
UAE buys $1.8 billion US arms amid Yemen war
Press TV – The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia’s main partner in a Riyadh-led coalition invading Yemen, has bought around $1.8 billion…
Warring sides in Yemen agree on ‘Phase 1’ of redeploying forces in Hudaydah: UN
Press TV – The Houthi fighters and Saudi-backed militants loyal to the ex-Yemeni government have reached an agreement on “Phase 1” of their…
In Warsaw meeting; US, allies accuse Iran of meddling in Yemen, ignore Saudi aggression
MNA – The Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the UK and the US, in a joint declaration on Wednesday, accused…
Fresh Saudi-led airstrikes kill 8 Yemeni fishermen near Hudaydah
Press TV – Warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition waging war on Yemen have targeted a fishing boat in the waters off the…
Violence in the name of God: Pope condemns Saudi-led war in Yemen
Sputnik – Pope Francis, ahead of his historic and unprecedented Sunday visit to the Arabian Peninsula, issued his strongest condemnation to date…
Yemen’s Houthis, ex-govt. representatives meet aboard UN ship
Press TV – A United Nations-appointed committee tasked with monitoring a ceasefire in the Yemeni city of Hudaydah has started its new…