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Several Yemeni parties, including al-Islah, have blasted Saudi Arabia and its allied regime of fugitive president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi for failing to stop the advances of Yemeni armed forces in strategic Ma’rib Province. According to reports, in a joint statement released on Tuesday, the parties expressed surprise at the …

The Syrian parliament has denounced as “invalid” the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which set out Britain’s aim to establish a national home for the Zionists in Palestine, saying the Syrian government and nation will continue to support Palestinians until full restoration of their legitimate rights. The parliament, in a statement released …

Yemen’s army and its allied Ansarullah forces have liberated several more areas from the clutches of the Saudi-backed mercenaries near Ma’rib, and are moving closer to fully liberating the city, which is the last stronghold of Saudi militants in northern Yemen. On Monday, the Yemeni forces liberated at least three areas …

Lebanon’s foreign minister has called for the initiation of talks with Saudi Arabia as part of efforts aimed at resolving the ongoing disputes and easing a spiraling diplomatic row between the two countries. “Lebanon invites Saudi Arabia to engage in dialogue to solve all outstanding problems and not just the latest …

The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Kuwait have recalled their diplomats from Lebanon after a same move by Saudi Arabia in protest at a Lebanese minister’s faulting the hugely-deadly Riyadh-led war on Yemen. The latest of the Saudi Arabia allies to take the move was the UAE, whose foreign ministry …

China and Russia have reworked a draft resolution urging the UN Security Council to ease sanctions on North Korean exports with the intent of “enhancing the livelihood of the civilian population” in the east Asian country. The draft resolution was first pitched by the two countries in December 2019, seeking …

Almost a third of Republicans believe violence may be necessary to solve the problems the United States is facing today, according to a new national survey. The poll by the nonprofit Public Religion Research Institute, released on Monday, finds that 30 percent of Republicans agreed with the statement: “Because things have …

Russia has accused Ukraine of trying to create a “provocative situation” aimed at dragging Moscow into a conflict in the country’s eastern region of Donbass, amid an escalation between the Kiev government forces and pro-Russia separatists in the volatile region. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the comment against the …

Many of Afghanistan’s US-trained spies and military personnel have joined the Daesh terrorist group after being abandoned by the United States, a new report has revealed. Citing Taliban leaders and former Afghan security officials, The Wall Street Journal reported that several members of the former Afghan government’s intelligence and military apparatus joined Daesh, …

Ethiopia’s government has accused Tigrayan forces of killing 100 youths in Kombolcha, one of the two strategic towns the rebel group claimed to have captured over the weekend. “The terrorist group TPLF has summarily executed more than 100 youth residents of Kombolcha in areas it has infiltrated,” the government communication …

Seven senior US military officers have condemned the CIA’s brutal treatment of a detainee, calling it a “shame for the US government,” US media reports have said. The rebuke by seven of a military jury’s eight members, who were brought to Guantanamo Bay this past week to hear evidence and …

The UK warned France on Monday to back down in a fish row within 48 hours or face legal action under the Brexit trade deal amid an intensifying dispute between Paris and London. Tensions over fishing rights escalated on Thursday, when France seized a British trawler fishing in its territorial …

Japan’s ruling conservative party has defied expectations and retained control of the country’s parliament in Sunday’s general elections, giving Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a thumping mandate to deliver on his promises to resurrect the pandemic-hit economy. Kishida’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) defied initial exit polls that suggested the party, attacked …

Bulgaria on Monday deployed 350 soldiers to the border with Turkey to help police cope with the growing influx of migrants, the defense minister announced. “Soldiers arrived at the Bulgarian-Turkish border since today to back up the border police,” Georgi Panayotov told the private bTV channel. The 350 troops deployed …

French President Emmanuel Macron said Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison lied to him over the cancellation of a submarine building contract in September and indicated more efforts were required to rebuild trust between the two allies. In Rome for the G20 summit, the two leaders were meeting for the first …

Denmark, the United States, and 12 other countries on Monday backed a goal to reduce emissions by the global maritime sector to zero by 2050, a target to be fleshed out in negotiations at the United Nations shipping agency. The initiative, led by Denmark and announced on the sidelines of …

At a Georgia state House of Representatives hearing on prison conditions in September, a corrections officer called in to testify, interrupting his shift to tell lawmakers how dire conditions had become. On a “good day,” he told lawmakers, he had maybe six or seven officers to supervise roughly 1,200 people. …

Russia approved a long-term government climate strategy on Monday targeting carbon neutrality by 2060 and rejected US allegations it was not doing enough on climate change as the COP26 conference began. President Vladimir Putin, the leader of the world’s no. 4 greenhouse gas emitter, plans to deliver a recorded message …

Britain gave France 48 hours on Monday to back down in a fishing row that threatens to escalate into a wider trade dispute between two of Europe’s biggest economies or face tortuous legal action under the Brexit trade deal. Post-Brexit bickering over fish culminated last Wednesday in the French seizure …

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday US President Joe Biden displayed a “positive approach” on the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey. “We talked about the payment of $1.4 billion made before during our discussions. We talked about F-16s and the modernization of the F-16s we currently …