The death toll from a cyclone that battered southern Oman and the Yemeni island of Socotra has reached 11, while eight sailors were still missing, authorities said. Cyclone Mekunu hit Oman’s Dhofar and Al-Wusta provinces on Friday after intensifying from a category one to a category two cyclone, with winds of up to 170 kilometres […]
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Woman among four killed in airstrikes on rebel held Yemen capital
A woman was among four people killed in an air strike that hit a petrol station in Yemen’s rebel-held capital late Saturday, medical sources said. Eleven people were wounded in the air strike on Sanaa, they said. Witnesses said it took place just before sunset as people prepared to break the dawn-to-dusk Islamic fast of […]
Yemen rebels stage show of force hours after missile attacks
SANAA: Hundreds of thousands of Huthi rebel supporters flooded the streets of Yemen’s capital Monday to mark three years of war, hours after Riyadh intercepted seven missiles fired from rebel territory. A Saudi-led military coalition intervened in Yemen on March 26, 2015 to restore the government of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after the Iran-backed Huthis […]
Dozens killed in fresh Yemen air strikes, clashes
Fresh air strikes and clashes in Yemen have killed over 60 fighters as Saudi-backed pro-government forces push an offensive against Huthi rebels, security and medical sources said Monday. Saudi-led coalition air raids overnight killed at least 18 of the Iran-backed rebels in Hais, south of the key port of Hodeida, while bombardments from gunships left […]
136 killed in Saudi-led strikes on Yemen in just 10 days: UN
GENEVA: At least 136 civilians have been killed over 10 days of Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen this month, the United Nations said Tuesday, with the organisation’s human rights chief decrying an “inferno” on the ground. The UN human rights office said it had tallied 136 civilians killed and another 87 injured in the strikes […]
Saudi intercepts Yemen rebel missile over Riyadh
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted a Yemeni rebel missile over Riyadh on Tuesday, as the rebels said the target was Yamamah palace, the official residence of King Salman. An AFP correspondent heard a loud explosion at 1050 GMT, shortly before the scheduled unveiling of the Saudi budget, which is usually announced from the Yamamah palace […]
Saudi-led strike ‘kills at least three Yemen civilians’
A Saudi-led air strike has killed at least three civilians in Yemen’s Marib province, a local official said on Sunday, but a rebel news agency gave a higher death toll. The local official, speaking from Marib east of Sanaa, said the civilians were in a vehicle in the Hreib Karameesh district when it was hit […]
Yemen air strikes, clashes kill 51
Saudi-led air strikes have killed 28 Huthi rebels around Yemen’s west coast, medics and security sources close to the insurgents said Friday, as government forces reported deadly clashes in the south. The security sources said air strikes on Thursday and Friday hit five towns controlled by the Huthis around 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of […]
Yemen missile fired at Saudi Arabia may be Iran-made, say UN experts
UNITED NATIONS: UN experts who traveled to Saudi Arabia to inspect fragments of a missile fired from Yemen last month have found a possible link to an Iranian manufacturer, according to a confidential document seen by AFP on Friday. Saudi Arabia and the United States have accused Iran of supplying weapons to Yemen’s Houthi rebels […]
Saudi Arabia to reopen Yemen airports, seaports
LAHORE: Saudi Arabia on Monday said that the Arab coalition fighting the Houthi militias in Yemen is beginning to reopen airports and seaports in Yemen, following a brief closure after an Iranian-made missile attack on Riyadh. The announcement from the Saudi mission at the United Nations came after the coalition fighting Yemen’s rebels, known as Houthis, […]