Posts Tagged ‘Yemen’

US Navy seizes ammunition-laden vessel from Iran to Yemen

The US Navy said it had seized a fishing trawler smuggling ammunition from Iran to war-torn Yemen, reports Anadolu Agency. In a statement, the Bahrain-based United States Fifth Fleet said the boat was intercepted in the Gulf of Aden on December  1 while carrying more than 50 tons of ammunition rounds, fuses, and propellants for […]

Yemen, UK FMs review repercussions of Houthi attacks on oil facilities

Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Bin Mubarak has discussed with the British Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, James Cleverly, the repercussions of the Houthi attacks on oil facilities and ports in Yemen, Anadolu news agency reported. This came during a meeting held on the sidelines of the 18th session of the Regional […]

UN envoy warns of ‘heightened risk of war’ after end of Yemen truce

The United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, has warned that the failure to extend the ceasefire agreement between the Houthis and the Yemeni government will lead to a “heightened risk of war”, Anadolu news agency reported. Speaking during a Security Council briefing yesterday, Grundberg said the truce started to alleviate the suffering of […]

Yemen’s devastating seven-year war continues unabated

The ongoing seven-year war in Yemen remains an important element of the wider Middle East conflict. Following the end of a Yemeni truce on October 2, Mohammed Abdessalam of the Ansar Allah group ruling in the North, who is head of the Houthis delegation in talks with the government, said the parties to the conflict […]

The Yemen Truce Is in Danger: The Aggressor’s Ships Are in the Crosshairs of the Yemeni Forces

Sep 30, 2022 By Mustapha Awada  During negotiations for the extension of the armistice agreement for a fourth time in a row and before the current ceasefire expires, Yemen’s Ansarullah movement put forward three conditions. The conditions are as follows: “Paying salaries, ending the siege on Sana’a Airport, north of the capital, and the port […]

Al-Houthi: US plans were paving way for controlling, occupying Yemen

September 20, 2022  Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English  The leader of Ansar Allah movement asserts that the US was working to escalate chaos in Yemen, but the Yemeni people thwarted these plans. The leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi The leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, said on Tuesday […]

Al-Houthi: US plans were paving way for controlling, occupying Yemen

September 20, 2022  Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English  The leader of Ansar Allah movement asserts that the US was working to escalate chaos in Yemen, but the Yemeni people thwarted these plans. The leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi The leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, said on Tuesday […]

Al-Houthi: US plans were paving way for controlling, occupying Yemen

September 20, 2022  Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English  The leader of Ansar Allah movement asserts that the US was working to escalate chaos in Yemen, but the Yemeni people thwarted these plans. The leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi The leader of the Yemeni Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi, said on Tuesday […]

Yemen: landmines have killed over 400 people since 2019

More than 400 civilians have been killed in Yemen due to landmines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and other unexploded ordnance across several province since 2019, a local monitoring organisation has reported. “From mid-2019 to early August 2022, we documented 426 civilian deaths, including 101 children and 22 women, in addition to 568 wounded, including 216 […]

Yemen To Overwhelm Enemies If Saudi-led Coalition Fails to Hold on To Truce – Defense Minister

September 6, 2022 By Staff, Agencies The Yemeni defense minister underlined that his country is fully prepared for an all-out war with the Saudi-led coalition, warning the invading countries that they would be bewildered by the advanced capabilities of the Yemeni armed forces if they continue the war. Major General Mohammad al-Atifi made the remarks […]

Al Qaeda attack kills 20 Yemen forces in Abyan, says southern military

Al Qaeda militants killed some 20 Yemeni security force members in an assault in the southern Abyan province on Tuesday, a southern military spokesperson said, before all eight attackers were killed, Reuters reports. The militants used rocket-propelled grenades, light and medium weapons and military vehicles in the ambush on a security checkpoint in Ahwar district, […]

Stability in Yemen affords security to West Asia, Persian Gulf: Iran FM

TEHRAN- Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian stated late on Sunday that stability and security in the war-torn Yemen directly will have positive effect on the entire West Asia, including the Persian Gulf region. The comments were made by Amir Abdollahian at a meeting with UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg in Tehran. Iran’s […]

Al-Qaeda in Yemen release video of Bangladeshi UN worker

Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch have released a video on Saturday showing a UN worker who was abducted more than six months ago, according to a report by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group. The video which was purportedly recorded on 9 August was released by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and featured Akam Sofyol Anam, who […]

Israeli naval delegation deployed to Yemen’s Socotra Island: Report

Over the past year, Israel has been collaborating with the UAE to establish a military and intelligence presence on the Yemeni island September 02 2022 A Soviet-era tank rusts on the coast of the Yemeni island of Socotra. (Photo credit: AFP) ByNews Desk-  Yemeni media reported on 2 September that a delegation of Israeli military […]

Israeli naval delegation deployed to Yemen’s Socotra Island: Report

Over the past year, Israel has been collaborating with the UAE to establish a military and intelligence presence on the Yemeni island September 02 2022 A Soviet-era tank rusts on the coast of the Yemeni island of Socotra. (Photo credit: AFP) ByNews Desk-  Yemeni media reported on 2 September that a delegation of Israeli military […]

Israeli naval delegation deployed to Yemen’s Socotra Island: Report

Over the past year, Israel has been collaborating with the UAE to establish a military and intelligence presence on the Yemeni island September 02 2022 A Soviet-era tank rusts on the coast of the Yemeni island of Socotra. (Photo credit: AFP) ByNews Desk-  Yemeni media reported on 2 September that a delegation of Israeli military […]

Drinking Water in Yemen Contaminated with Radioactive Substances, Heavy Metals

August 29, 2022 By Staff, Agencies The Yemeni Ministry of Water and Environment warned about the level of pollution in drinking water in the country’s strategic coastal province of al-Hudaydah, raising alarms about the serious health hazards derived from the repeated exposure to traces of heavy metals, including lead, mercury, and arsenic. During a press […]

Yemen’s HSA pledges $1.2m to UN drive to avert tanker oil spill

Yemen’s HSA Group, on Thursday, became the first private entity to pledge funds for a United Nations operation to avoid an oil spill from a tanker stranded off the coast of Yemen, as the UN urgently tries to secure an initial requirement of $80 million, Reuters reports. The international organisation, which has so far raised […]

How France’s Energy Deal With The UAE Helps Fuel War In Yemen

Last week France announced that it had signed a strategic agreement with the United Arab Emirates to cooperate in the energy sector. Whilst this could well aid the European country during winter, with energy shortages in Europe leading to higher prices, blackouts, and potential loss of heat, Yemen may end up becoming the newest victim […]

The US Scrambles For Relevance By Addressing The Yemen War

Washington’s special envoy for Yemen is heading to both Saudi Arabia and Jordan, in an alleged effort to help a UN brokered ceasefire initiative to succeed. However, this visit seems to be little to do with Yemen and more about US power in the region. Whilst during US President Joe Biden’s first address on foreign […]

Yemen is in the Grip of a Severe Humanitarian Crisis

Several months of truce in Yemen have significantly reduced the number of civilian casualties. Yet, people are still dying from mines, but this figure has decreased by two-thirds compared to previous months. Since 2015, Yemen has been divided between government forces backed by a Saudi-led military coalition and the Houthi rebel group, also known as […]

Jackie Chan is producing Chinese action movie shot in Syria, set in Yemen

Martial arts movie legend Jackie Chan is to co-produce a Chinese movie partially filmed in Syria inspired by events surrounding Beijing's 2015 naval evacuation of Chinese and other foreign citizens from Yemen as the joint Saudi and UAE-led coalition launched its on-going war against the country, targeting the Houthi-allied armed forces who seized the capital, […]

US Senators introduce resolution to end US involvement in Yemen

July 16, 2022 Source: Agencies By Al Mayadeen English  One of the Senators details how millions of innocent Yemenis have endured untold suffering and a humanitarian catastrophe since the war on Yemen began. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) filed a bipartisan resolution in the Senate on Thursday to direct the […]

Yemen: Cheap Demagoguery and Huge Profits for London

Situated on the distant east coast of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen and our neighboring Ukraine share a common fate. Both countries, at the will of the West, have become embroiled in conflicts desired by Western rulers. Instigation of Ukraine’s neo-Nazi rulers against Russia by the West, above all the United States’ “empire of lies and […]

Dozens of Yemen Children, Closest Living Relatives To Biblical Hebrews Holocausted or maimed in Yemen By Saudi with Help From USA & Non Semitic Khazarians Occupying Palestine Since New Year

I am confused. One can not look anywhere there are not articles and pictures of “dead” Ukrainians including the video I saw where the dead Ukrainian pulled the body bag back over himself when the wind blew the top off of the “dead” man, but the “news” services of USA Israel and Saudi Arabia do […]

Deafening silence for Yemen, loud outcry for Ukraine

Deafening silence for Yemen, loud outcry for Ukraine – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN — As the Yemen war is raging unabatedly, the international community maintains its deafening silence on the atrocities led by the Saudis in Yemen. As the global community turns to pay attention to the “blue eyes and blonde hairs” that are under the Russian […]

EU official: Yemen ‘one of most difficult countries’ in world for women

Deputy Head of the European Union Mission to Yemen, Marion Lallis, said yesterday that Yemen is “one of the most difficult countries in the world for women”, Anadolu reported. On the eve of International Women’s Day, Lallis said: “The participation of women and men is essential to achieving peace and sustainable development in the country”, emphasising the […]

Tears for Ukraine, Sanctions for Russia, Yawns for Yemen, Arms for Saudis: The West’s Grotesque Double Standard

March 02nd, 2022 By Ahmed Abdulkareem Source The speed of Western retaliation over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised eyebrows among Yemenis who have endured a relentless bombing campaign and deadly air, land, and sea blockade for 2,520 consecutive days. HAJJAH, YEMEN – “We’re brutally bombed every day. So why doesn’t the Western world care like […]

Yemen evacuates nationals from Ukraine amid Russian war

Yemen said, Monday, it had evacuated 22 nationals from Ukraine amid Russia’s war on the Eastern European country, Anadolu News Agency reports. In a statement, the Yemeni Foreign Ministry said 18 citizens left Ukraine through Poland, while four others were evacuated through Romania. There are no official estimates of the number of Yemenis in Ukraine. […]

Why the Houthis are Taking the Fight to the UAE – Yemen’s War Just got More Complicated

If Yemen remains an indecipherable puzzle for even the most astute of analysts, the Houthis’ decision of late to bring fire and brimstones to the UAE – a player who so far averted the ire of the movement by limiting its meddling to the southern part of the country, a region the Houthis have long […]

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