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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 […]

10th Jan 2017

Saudi Arabia: President Aoun 1st visit as Lebanon president

By Ahmed al-Masri BEIRUT (AA): Lebanese President Michel Aoun set out for Saudi capital Riyadh on Monday for his first official visit abroad since assuming office late last October, Lebanese media has reported. According to the Lebanese Foreign Ministry, the visit comes in response to an invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. […]

7th Jan 2017

Saudi Arabia: Former Pakistani army chief to lead Islamic military

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s former army chief, General Raheel Sharif has been appointed as commander of the 34-nation Islamic military alliance against terrorism at its headquarters in Saudi capital Riyadh, Pakistan’s defense minister Khawaja Asif confirmed Friday. In an interview with local Geo TV on Friday, Asif said that General […]

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 […]

15th Oct 2016

Yemen bracing for US military intervention in support of Saudi Arabia

By Zakaria al-Kamaali and Murad al-Arifi SANA’A (AA): The leader of the Ansar Allah [Houthi] group on Thursday accused the U.S. of planning an attack on Yemen’s Al-Hodeida province following a U.S. cruise missile strike one day earlier that targeted Houthi positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. In a statement broadcast by the Houthi-run […]

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 […]

29th Sep 2016

US: Senate votes to override Obama veto on 9/11 bill on Saudi Arabia

By Michael Hernandez WASHINGTON (AA): The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of overriding President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation that would allow the victims of terror attacks to sue foreign governments. The measure received support well beyond a two-thirds super majority to pass, officially receiving 97 votes in favor in the 100-member […]

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 […]

3rd Sep 2016

Saudi Arabia denies hiring Israeli firm to secure pilgrims during hajj

By Hussein Mahmoud CAIRO (AA): The Saudi embassy in Cairo has denied reports about hiring an Israeli firm to make electronic bracelets for millions of pilgrims. An Israeli radio said Riyadh has reached a deal with an Israeli firm to provide electronic bracelets as a way to secure millions of pilgrims during the Muslim […]

16th Aug 2016

Yemen: 11 killed in Saudi-led airstrike on MSF hospital

By Zekeriyya al-Kemali SANAA (AA): At least 11 people were killed and 19 others injured late Monday in Yemen in a Saudi-led airstrike that hit a hospital operated by the medical charity group Doctors Without Borders. The group, also known as its French name, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said on Twitter that warplanes struck […]

14th Aug 2016

Yemen: 10 children killed in their classroom by Saudi coalition airstrike

Agencies: Ten children have been killed and more than 20 injured by an airstrike on a school in Northern Yemen carried out by the Saudi-led military coalition Saturday, reported by the international charity Medecins sans Frontieres, who said all the casualties were under 15 Coalition aircraft bombed the small village school in the Sa’ada district […]

7th Aug 2016

Yemen peace talks suspended for one month

By Zakaria al-Kamali KUWAIT (AA) – UN envoy to Yemen Islami Ould Cheikh Ahmed on Saturday announced a one-month suspension in peace talks between the Yemeni government and the Ansar Allah group for resolving the conflict in the Arab country. Speaking at a press conference in Kuwait, Ould Cheikh said the talks will be […]

30th Jul 2016

Yemen: 8 killed, 17 injured in battles

By Murad al-Arifi TAIZ, (AA): Eight people were killed and 17 injured Friday in a bomb attack and clashes between Ansar Allah [Houthi] movement and pro-government forces in Yemen, local sources told Anadolu Agency. Three civilians were killed and four others injured when an improvised bomb was detonated near a market place in the […]

5th Jul 2016

Saudi Arabia rocked by three suicide attacks killing 4

By Ramazan Turgut MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AA) – A suicide bomber targeted the Saudi Arabian city of Medina on Monday as the kingdom was hit by two other terror attacks. Four Saudi security forces were killed in Medina. In Medina, Islam’s second holiest city after Mecca, the bomber attacked a security checkpoint near […]

17th May 2016

US Treasury Dept releases Saudi debt holdings

By Kasim Ileri WASHINGTON (AA): The Treasury Department on Monday released Saudi Arabia’s holdings of U.S. debt, for the first time in four decades. The Kingdom’s holdings stood at $116.8 billion as of March, according to data the agency disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Bloomberg News. Saudi […]

13th Apr 2016

Egypt: Concession of Egyptian islands to Saudi sparks protest calls

By Hussein Mahmoud CAIRO (AA) – A political bloc that calls for the reinstatement of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has called for popular demonstrations on Friday to protest Egypt’s recent decision to cede two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. According to a maritime border agreement inked last week between Cairo and Riyadh, […]

21st Mar 2016

Yemen: Ansar Allah [Houthis] ready to hold talks with govt

By Mohamed al-Samei SANA’A (AA): Yemen’s Shia Zaydi Muslim Ansar Allah [Houthi] group is prepared to engage in a fresh round of talks with the Yemeni government with a view to ending the country’s two-year-old conflict, Yemeni sources have said. “The Houthis have told [UN envoy Esmail] Ould Shaikh that they have agreed to […]

2nd Mar 2016

Philippines: Gunman fires on extremism conference

By Roy Ramos ZAMBOANGA, (AA) – Two Saudi men are reported to have been injured when a gunman opened fire on a symposium on extremism in a university in the Philippines south late Tuesday. Among the injured were reported to be an Islamic scholar and a religious attache to the Saudi Embassy in Manila. […]

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