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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 […]

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 […]

29th Aug 2016

Yemen: Suicide bombing by Daesh kills 45 in Aden

By Murad al-Arifi ADEN, (AA): At least 45 people were killed and 60 others wounded in a suspected suicide car bomb attack in Yemen’s southern Aden city Monday, according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). According to initial reports, a bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a building of pro-government forces in northern Aden at […]

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 […]

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 […]

16th May 2016

Yemen: Daesh suicide bombing kills 25 troops in Hadhramaut

By Mubarak Mohamed HADHRAMAUT, (AA): At least 25 soldiers were killed on Sunday in a suicide attack — which has since been claimed by the Daesh terrorist group — in Yemen’s southern Hadhramaut province, local sources told Anadolu Agency. The attack, which occurred at an army recruitment office in Hadhramaut’s Al-Mukalla district where fresh […]

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 […]

21st Feb 2016

Yemen: Al-Qa’ida captures coastal town in S Yemen

By Shukri Hussein ADEN, (AA): Al-Qaeda terrorists on Saturday morning wrested control of Ahwar, a coastal town in Yemen’s southern Abyan province, according to local witnesses. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, one Ahwar resident said that Al-Qaeda elements had “deployed at the town’s entrances and in the streets, while posting fighters on the rooftops of […]

24th Jan 2016

Yemen: Saudi led strikes in Saada wound dozens, kill six, incl ambulance driver

MSF: At around 4pm local time yesterday afternoon, 21 January, the ambulance service of the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF)-supported Al Gomhoury Hospital in Saada governorate, Yemen, was hit by an airstrike, killing one Ministry of Health staff member. The incident took place in Dhayan, about 20 kilometres from the city of Saada and […]

11th Jan 2016

Yemen: MSF-supported hospital bombed in Razeh district

[Photo: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical convoy near Aden] SANA’A, Médecins Sans Frontières: A hospital in northern Yemen supported by the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was hit by a projectile this morning, killing four people, wounding 10 and causing the collapse of several buildings of the medical […]

4th Jan 2016

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition bomb various cities

SANAA, (AA): Saudi-led coalition warplanes have stepped up attacks on positions held by Yemen’s former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Shia Muslim Houthi group following the termination of a two-week humanitarian cease-fire. Coalition warplanes on Saturday night and early Sunday morning reportedly struck a number of Houthi targets north of capital Sanaa, where local residents reported […]

23rd Dec 2015

Yemen: Arab coalition blamed for most attacks on civilians

NEW YORK (AA) – A “disproportionate amount” of attacks on civilian areas in Yemen appears to have been carried out by the Saudi-led coalition, the UN human rights chief said Tuesday. Speaking at the UN Security Council’s first public meeting on Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition begain its airstrikes in March, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein voiced “extreme concern” about the […]

4th Dec 2015

Yemen: 9 wounded in Saudi-led coalition airstrike on MSF clinic

Yemen, (MSF): An airstrike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition has hit a clinic in southern Yemen run by international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), wounding nine people, including two MSF staff. According to local sources, at 11.20 on 2 December, three airstrikes targeted a park in Taiz city’s Al Houban district, […]

19th Nov 2015

Yemen conflict death toll hits 5,700

NEW YORK (AA): Approximately 5,700 victims have been killed in Yemen since Saudi-led bombing began in mid-March, including 830 women and children, the United Nations said Wednesday. The UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Johannes van der Klaauw, told reporters that Yemen has been “grappling with a breakdown of essential services and forced displacement,” with nearly 21.2 million […]

4th Nov 2015

Yemen: Thousands of families displaced by Cyclone Chapala

HADHRAMAUT, (AA): More than three thousand families in Yemen have been internally displaced after Cyclone Chapala pounded the country’s southern Hadhramaut province late Monday, according to a Yemeni emergency official. The official, who preferred anonymity, told Anadolu Agency that numerous families in the province had to flee their homes due to severe winds and heavy […]

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