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By Shukri Hussein SANA’A, Yemen (AA): Yemen’s Ansar Allah [Houthi] announced a new prisoner swap agreement Sunday with the Yemeni government. This came shortly after the two rivals completed the exchange of nearly 900 prisoners. “An upcoming deal will include the release of 700 captives in exchange for 700 prisoners from the other side,” Abdul-Qader […]

1st Mar 2021

Yemen Houthis claim drone attacks on ‘sensitive sites’ Saudi Arabia

By Muhammad Al-Samei and Aziz Al-Ahmadi SANA’A, Yemen (AA): Yemen’s Ansar Allah [Houthi] movement on Sunday claimed to have carried out missile and drone attacks on “sensitive sites” in Saudi Arabia. Rebel spokesman Yahya Saree described the attacks as “massive”, saying that six drone attacks targeted military sites in Abha and Khamis Mushait in […]

15th Jan 2021

UN urges US to drop Houthi terrorist designation

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): The UN urged the Trump administration on Thursday to reverse its decision to label Yemen’s Houthi [Ansar Allah] rebels as a terror group, warning the move could exacerbate the country’s dire humanitarian crisis. The UN’s aid chief Mark Lowcok told the Security Council the decision will push the impoverished nation […]

9th Apr 2020

Saudi Arabia announces Yemen cease-fire amid pandemic

By Ali Semerci ISTANBUL (AA): Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces declared Wednesday a two-week long cease-fire in Yemen starting from Thursday amid coronavirus outbreak, according to local media. The unilateral cease-fire could be extended, the official SPA news agency quoted coalition spokesman Col. Turki al-Maliki as saying. Al-Maliki said the move supports Yemeni Government’s decision […]

17th May 2019

Yemen: Saudi-led airstrikes kill 8, injure 50

By Hacer Baser SANA’A (AA): The Saudi Arabia-led coalition forces on Thursday carried out airstrikes, killing eight people, including 4 children and injuring 50 others when missiles struck a home near Rabat Street in Yemen’s capital Sana’a. In a Twitter post, Doctors without Borders said the wounded were rushed to hospitals after the […]

15th Oct 2018

Yemen: Saudi-led attacks kill 17 civilians in Hudaydah

By Mohamed al-Samei SANA’A (AA): At least 17 civilians were killed and 20 others injured in Saudi-led coalition attacks on minibuses in Yemen’s western strategic Hudaydah [Hodeidah] province, according to the United Nations on Sunday. “This is a horrific incident,” Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, said in a statement. “The United […]

3rd Aug 2018

Yemen: 56 civilians killed, 90 injured by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes in Hodeidah

(The Muslim News): At least 56 civilians have been killed and 90 injured in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in air bombings carried out by Saudi and UAE-led coalition Thursday according local media. Many casualties include children and young boys street vendors. The strikes on Thursday, which fell close to the city’s main hospital, […]

27th Jun 2018

Yemen: 9 civilians killed in Saudi coalition airstrike

By Murat al-Arifi and Ali Oweida SANA’A (AA): At least nine civilians were “mistakenly” killed on Tuesday and another 11 wounded in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in western Yemen’s Hudaydah province, a local military source said. The coalition’s fighter jets struck a bus carrying displaced people near a checkpoint for Yemen’s […]

13th Feb 2018

UN warns of escalating violence in Yemen

By Fatih Erel GENEVA (AA): The UN human rights chief on Monday warned about the escalating violence and the increasing civilian casualties in Yemen, where nearly 6,000 civilians have been killed in the three-year conflict. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said in a statement on Monday that the conflict […]

29th Jan 2018

Yemen: UAE backed southern rebels capture Govt HQ in Aden, killing 20 people

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

31st Oct 2016

Yemen: 60 people were killed in Saudi led airstrike on prison

By Zakaria al-Kamali SANA’A (AA): Over 60 of people were reportedly killed and many injured on Saturday in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a prison compound in western Yemen. Hours before the strikes in Al Hudaydah, at least 18 people, some of them children, were killed in Saudi led coalition airstrikes in […]

8th Oct 2016

Yemen: 140 mourners killed, dozens injured by Saudi-led airstrikes

Yemeni security officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has targeted a funeral hall packed with mourners in the capital, Sana’a on Saturday. More than 140 people are reported to have died and dozens injured. The funeral was held for Sheikh Ali al-Rawishan, father of Interior Minister Galal al-Rawishan, an ally of both the […]

14th Sep 2016

Yemen: Saudi-led airstrikes on water well kill 30 civilians in Sana’a

By Zakaria al-Kamali SANA’A (AA): Saudi-led airstrikes on a water well north of the Yemeni capital Sanaa [Sana’a] have killed 30 people, the UN human coordinator for Yemen has said. Jamie McGoldrick said 17 people, including first responders and children, were injured in Saturday’s attack in Beit Saadan village of Arhab District. “I remain […]

23rd Aug 2016

Yemen: Fighting kills dozens in Taiz

By Murad al-Arifi SANAA (AA): At least 46 people were killed in deadly clashes Monday between pro-government forces and Ansar Allah group (Houthis) in Yemen’s central Taiz province. Battles broke out in western Taiz, in which 25 Houthis and allied forces of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh were killed, the pro-government forces said in […]

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