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The Saudi army has conducted an artillery attack on a residential area in Yemen’s northwestern Sa’ada province, martyring at least five civilians and wounding 11 others. Yemen’s al-Masirah TV channel reported that the shelling targeted the border town of Manbeh on Friday. Seven years of the Saudi-led war on Yemen has pushed …

A senior Yemeni official has expressed the Ansarullah movement’s support for protests in the country’s south against the Saudi-led military occupation and its plundering of Yemeni resources. Speaking to the Lebanese al-Mayadeen television channel on Wednesday, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, described popular demonstrations in the …

The Saudi Arabia-led coalition that has been waging a war on Yemen for the past seven years has impounded a fourth oil tanker bound for the impoverished country. The vessel was confiscated as it was heading towards the western al-Hudaydah port city, Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported on Tuesday, citing …

 The weapons depots of the militias affiliated with the Saudi coalition were targeted by two missiles in the southern province of Ma’rib. According to Yemeni media, a series of explosions shook an area in the south of Ma’rib province last midnight. According to the reports, two ballistic missiles targeted the weapons …

Yemeni army soldiers, backed by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have launched a missile strike, targeting arms depots belonging to Saudi-sponsored militants loyal to Yemen’s former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi south of the country’s central province of Ma’rib. Local sources, requesting not to be named, told Yemen’s al-Khabar al-Yemeni …

Yemeni forces have fired a domestically-designed ballistic missile at a position of Saudi militants loyal to the resigned Yemeni president in the country’s central province of Ma’rib. Military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Yemen News Portal website that massive explosions were heard Thursday evening as the missile …

The Saudi-led coalition has rejected the findings of a report by the UN Human Rights Council that strongly condemns the egregious violations committed by the foreign forces in Yemen. Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Abdul Aziz Al-Wasel, said the coalition “does not accept the report,” calling …

US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has expressed “deep concern” over the torture of a Saudi aid worker while in detention in the kingdom. “Deeply concerned with allegations of torture in detention of aid worker Abdulrahman al-Sadhan,” the Democratic congresswoman from California said in a statement on Twitter. …

It’s said we become stronger in the face of adversity, as the journey back requires a degree of self-reflection that encourages healing. In the two decades after September 11, however, the US has learned nothing about itself. I was raised as a military brat – a special category of American …

Twenty years after the al-Qaeda attack on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States is still involved in a war in Iraq that it started. President George W. Bush was obsessed with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and deliberately misled the American people about who was responsible for the 9/11 attack. …

Former US President Donald Trump used the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to slam the “inept administration” of Joe Biden for its “incompetence” over the Afghan withdrawal in a video message on Saturday. “This is a very sad day,” Trump said in the message, adding that September 11 “represents …

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has hailed the recent Baghdad conference, which aimed at promoting regional de-escalation and dialog, as an “important diplomatic achievement,” said Iraq is key to promoting stability between Iran and Saudi Arabia. In a blog post published on the website of the European External Action …

As the United States prepares to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, families of the victims and others demand to know the truth about the deadliest strike on American soil and who was responsible for it. Faced with mounting pressure from 9/11 victims and their families, …

September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others appeared in court for the first time in more than 18 months as US military prosecutors seek justice two decades after the world-shaking terror attacks. On trial for nine years, Mohammed and co-conspirators Ammar al-Baluchi, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, …

The Yemeni Armed Forces have used 16 drones and ballistic missiles to hit targets deep inside Saudi Arabia in their latest operation, the spokesman for the country’s armed forces has announced. “As part of confronting the crimes of [the Saudi-led] aggression against our country, our Armed Forces carried out the …

The assistant to Iran’s foreign minister and director-general for the Persian Gulf affairs of the Foreign Ministry has expressed the country’s intention to cooperate at a maximum level with all its neighbors, saying Tehran-Riyadh ties will be in the interests of the entire region and the Muslim world. “We think …

The Customs Authority announced today, Friday, the launch of talks between Iraq and Saudi Arabia regarding facilitating transit work procedures. The authority said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “a memorandum of understanding was implemented between Iraq and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the …

At least three civilians have lost their lives when Saudi border guards launched barrages of artillery rounds at two separate residential areas in Yemen’s mountainous northwestern Province of Sa’ada. Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language al-Masirah television network that a civilian was martyred when projectiles fired by …

The Saudi Foreign Minister, Faisal bin Farhan, affirmed on Saturday that the establishment of stability in the region requires “a secure Iraq.” During a speech at the Baghdad Conference for Cooperation and Partnership, Bin Farhan said that “the changes in the region require joint coordination between countries, and the consolidation …

The Yemeni Army and allied Popular Committees have conducted a drone operation targeting Saudi Arabia’s southwestern city of Khamis Mushait in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s devastating military campaign and blockade against its impoverished neighbor. In a statement released early on Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition invading Yemen claimed that Saudi …