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By Fouad Mussad ADEN (AA): Yemen’s southern separatists, who are supported by the UAE, have reportedly captured the seat of the government in the coastal city of Aden after clashes with government forces amid reports of casualties. Twenty people have been killed and dozens injured. Forces loyal to the Southern Transitional Council (STC), who […]

1st Dec 2017

EU lawmakers call for arms embargo against Saudi Arabia

By Ilker Girit (AA): The European Parliament on Thursday called for an EU arms embargo against Saudi Arabia amid the “world’s largest famine” in Yemen. In a non-binding voting, a resolution urging EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini to impose an arms embargo against the kingdom was adopted by 539 votes to 13, with […]

8th Nov 2017

UN concerned aid operations in Yemen blocked by Saudi Arabia & killing of civilians

By Fatih Erel GENEVA (AA):- The UN on Tuesday said it was “deeply concerned” about a series of recent attacks in Yemen and the impact of the closure of air and sea ports in the country which has blocked humanitarian operations. UN spokesman Rupert Colville told a news conference in Geneva dozens of civilians, […]

2nd Nov 2017

Yemen Saudi raid kills 26 civilians in Saada

By Mohamed al-Samei SANA’A (AA) A Saudi-led coalition airstrike has killed 26 people in Yemen’s northern Saada province, the Ansar Allah [Houthi] group, medics and a Reuters witness claimed Wednesday. The Houthi-run Saba news agency, citing a security source, said the raid targeted a small hotel in a marketplace in Sahar district in the province. […]

26th Sep 2017

US: Trump’s new immigration ban does not include Saudi Arabia

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): Saudi Arabia was excluded from the Donald Trump administration’s most recent effort to curb international immigration over security concerns because Riyadh met U.S.-mandated criteria, the White House said Monday. Saudi Arabia was home to 15 of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, and after the U.S. unveiled Trump’s third […]

10th Aug 2017

Yemen: Up to 50 teen migrants ‘deliberately drowned’ off Yemen coast

By Fatih Erel GENEVA, Switzerland, (AA): About 50 Somali and Ethiopian refugees, mostly teenagers, were “deliberately” drowned on Wednesday by a human smuggler who forced 120 migrants into the sea off Yemen’s coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. “The survivors told our colleagues on the beach that the smuggler pushed them to […]

8th Aug 2017

Yemen: More than 200 children killed in 2017

By Ali Oweida MAARIB, Yemen (AA): More than 200 children have been killed in war-battered Yemen this year, a UN official said Monday. “In 2017, 201 children killed in Yemen: 152 boys and 49 girls,” Meritxell Relano, UNICEF Resident Representative in Yemen, said on Twitter. She said 347 Yemeni children were maimed, including 113 […]

27th Jul 2017

Saudi soldier killed near Yemen border

By Zakaria al-Kamali SANA’A (AA): Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday the death of one of its soldiers in clashes with Houthi [Ansar Allah] rebels near its southern border with Yemen. “The dead soldier belonged to ground forces as he was killed at the southern border of Jazan, which has seen battles with Houthis for more […]

5th Jul 2017

Yemen: 10mn Yemeni children in need of assistance: UNICEF

By Mohamed al-Samei SANAA, Yemen (AA): Some 10 million children in Yemen are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to the United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF). In a statement posted on its official Facebook page, UNICEF’s Yemen office said that most children in Yemen lacked basic medical care, adequate nutrition, fresh drinking water, […]

29th Jun 2017

US sets new visa rules for 6 Muslim countries

By Safvan Allahverdi WASHINGTON (AA): The Trump administration on Wednesday set new criteria that require a “close” family or business relation in the U.S. for visa applicants from six Muslim-majority countries, according to The Associated Press. The action comes after the Supreme Court decided Monday to allow part of a travel ban on refugees […]

8th Jun 2017

Kuwaiti emir to mediate diplomatic row between Qatar & Arab states

By Mohamed Abdul-Ghaffar KUWAIT (AA): Emir Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah on Wednesday set out for Dubai in hopes of containing an unprecedented diplomatic row between Qatar and a handful of other Arab states, according to the official Kuwait News Agency. The emir is joined on his trip by Foreign Minister Sabah al-Khaled al-Hamad al-Sabah […]

11th Feb 2017

Yemen: Houthis manufacturing drones, long range missiles

By Zakaria al-Kamaali SANA’A, Yemen (AA): The leader of Yemen’s Houthi group said Friday that it had begun manufacturing unmanned aerial drones and surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). In a statement broadcast by Yemen’s Houthi-run Al-Maseera television channel, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said the group was now “manufacturing artillery shells and air defenses”. These, he said, included surface-to-air […]

3rd Feb 2017

Yemen raid killing civilians ‘very well thought out & executed’

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): The Trump administration on Thursday defended a weekend raid on al-Qaeda positions in Yemen that left one Navy SEAL dead and killed an undetermined number of civilians. “This was a very, very well thought out and executed effort,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said. The military identified the slain […]

1st Feb 2017

African Union summit criticises Trump on Muslim ban

By Mohammad es-Seyyid and Ahmed Muhammed Abdalla ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA): The 28th Summit of the African Union ended early Wednesday as it criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries. President Alpha Conde of Guinea, who was elected new chairman of the African Union, expressed solidarity with […]

31st Jan 2017

Yemen: Houthi rebels attack Saudi warship off Yemen

By Zakaria al-Kamali SANA’A (AA): Two sailors were killed Monday in alleged suicide attack by Yemen’s Houth [Ansar Allah] rebels on a Saudi frigate in the Red Sea, the Saudi-led coalition said. A frigate on patrol came under attack from alleged three suicide boats belonging to the Houthis west of Hodeidah port, the coalition […]

29th Jan 2017

Yemen: US raid kills 40 in southern Yemen

By Murad al-Arifi SANA’A (AA): At least 40 people were reportedly killed in a U.S. raid that targeted suspected al-Qaeda leaders in southern Yemen on Sunday, according to local sources. Helicopter-born commandos attacked the house of senior al-Qaeda leader Abdulraoof al-Dhahab in Qayfa district in al-Bayda province, a source, who spoke on condition of […]

28th Jan 2017

US: Trump signs executive order limiting refugee entry

NEW YORK (AA): President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to limit the flow of refugees into the country, delivering on one of his most controversial campaign promises. The order was called “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” and contained a temporary entry ban that would affect citizens of […]

11th Dec 2016

Yemen: Suicide bombing kills 48 soldiers in Aden

By Shukri Hussein ADEN, (AA): At least 48 soldiers were killed in Yemen’s southern city of Aden late Saturday in a suicide bombing claimed by the Daesh group. The explosion occurred as soldiers gathered to collect their salaries at the gate of the Sawlaban base on the outskirts of Aden. The Yemeni Command of […]

12th Nov 2016

Yemen: Houthis claim to seize villages in Saudi Arabia

By Zakaria al-Kamaali SANA’A (AA): Yemen’s Shia Muslim Ansar Allah [Houthi] movement claim to have seized several villages in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Jizan province, the Houthi-run SABA news agency has reported. SABA quoted a military source as saying late Thursday that Houthi militiamen had taken control of the villages of Al-Kars and Al-Dafiniya — […]

1st Nov 2016

Yemen: UN envoy unveils details of peace plan

By Zakaria Al Kamali SANA’A, (AA): The UN Special Envoy for Yemen on Monday released details of a proposed “roadmap” to resolve the two-year conflict. In a briefing by Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed before a UN Security Council meeting, the envoy said the peace plan envisaged a new vice-president for Yemen and a national […]

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