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Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Committees are advancing on new fronts in the country’s southeastern province of Shabwah after capturing a strategic hilltop position. A Yemeni military source told the Arabic service of Russia’s Sputnik news agency that Saudi-paid militants and troops withdrew from Aqabat Malih after …

The Yemeni Army and popular committees, in the course of their advancement towards the border town of Jizan, killed a number of mercenaries affiliated with the Saudi aggression coalition. The series of advances of the Yemeni army and popular committees still continue in different parts of the country. Yemeni forces …

A spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says the Saudi-led coalition is receiving a heavy blow in al-Bayda amid territorial gains made by the Yemeni army and allied Popular Committees in the central province. “Once again and thanks to God, the enemy is receiving a painful blow in al-Bayda,” Mohammed Abdulsalam …

The United States has deployed more F-16 warplanes to Prince Sultan Air Base, south of Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh. According to Press TV, the US Central Command said in a post on its official Arabic-language Twitter account on Tuesday that the fighter jets were deployed to the base last week. …

Saudi Arabia’s state oil company acknowledged that some of its data is being held for ransom online. Aramco said it likely came from a third-party contractor, denying there’s been any breach of its computer systems. The company confirmed to AP on Wednesday it “recently became aware of the indirect release …

An Israeli software company is revealed to have helped Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) take over the smartphones of high-ranking Lebanese authorities, senior figures of the Hezbollah resistance movement as well as journalists, and spy on their communications. According to the report published by the French daily newspaper …

Restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 during the Muslim hajj in Saudi Arabia have also reduced the risk of the deadly crowd crushes that have marred the pilgrimage’s stoning of the devil in the past years, worshippers said on Tuesday. Before the pandemic, the annual haj rite typically …

Hundreds of Saudi political opponents, distraught with the recent online publication of pictures of the empty Grand Mosque complex in the holy city of Mecca next to crowded nightclubs in the kingdom, have set fire to photos of the country’s leaders, calling for mass anti-regime protests on the Day of …

Saudi officials have replaced the Kiswa (the cloth cover) of the Kaaba to commemorate the Day of Arafat and the start of Eid al-Adha, on Monday. The process of changing the Kiswa occurs annually on the second day of Hajj under the supervision of the President of the Holy Mosque. …

Speakers at an international conference on the human rights implications of arms trade have argued that Western nations and arms companies are complicit in aiding repressive Arab regimes in West Asia region to spy on their citizens. Participants at ‘Selling Death: Why the International Arms Trade Must be Controlled’ conference …

An Indian family of five burst into tears of joy after being chosen for this weekend’s downsized hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, but hundreds of thousands of rejected applicants were left disappointed. Up to 60,000 Muslims residing in Saudi Arabia are allowed to take part in this year’s hajj, evoking …

Since the gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, Mohammad bin Salman, the de facto leader of the Saudi Kingdom, has kept a rather low profile in the international arena. But that does not mean the young prince has made a U-turn in his major policies, …

Talks between OPEC and its allies to boost oil production and cool prices were abandoned earlier this month over a dispute that pivoted over how much crude the UAE would be able to pump under a new deal. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have reached a compromise deal …

The defense minister of Yemen’s National Salvation Government says Saudi Arabia and its allies, which are waging a devastating military campaign against his country, can no longer determine the course of action since it is now the Yemeni army troops and fighters from allied Popular Committees that have the upper …

Saudi Arabia is funding a digital news platform where the regime will hire some US-based media professionals to exert political pressure on the White House and the US Congress. The new lobbying project, which has not been officially announced, is backed by a subsidiary of the Saudi Technology Development and …

A bitter public rift between the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia over oil production quotas this week caused talks between the world’s biggest oil-producing nations to be abandoned and left energy markets in limbo, pushing oil prices to a six-year high. The 23 nations in Opec+, which comprises the …

The US administration has sparked outrage over welcoming Saudi prince Khalid bin Salman, the younger brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who is linked to the murder case of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, with human rights advocates saying President Joe Biden has fallen short of punishing Saudi Arabia …

Yemeni officials say the United States is fanning the flames of violence in the embattled southern province of al-Bayda by mobilizing and commanding Takfiri al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorists against the Yemeni army and allied popular forces, who have been defending the region against Saudi-led militants. “The United States, which falsely …

French prosecutors said Monday they are investigating claims that a Saudi prince kept seven employees in a state of modern-day slavery at an apartment he owned outside Paris. The inquiry for human trafficking was opened after the women, most from the Philippines filed complaints of modern-day slavery in October 2019, …

More than two million children are out of school because of the continuing war across Yemen, says UNICEF. The United Nations has warned that Yemeni children’s education and futures were under threat because of the continuing war in the Middle Eastern country. In a report titled Education Disrupted: Impact of …