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Yemeni forces have carried out a major military operation against military and strategic positions in southwestern Saudi Arabia, a military spokesman says. Brigadier General Yahya Saree, the spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, said in a statement on Monday that many drones and high-precision ballistic missiles were used in the operation. …

Nearly a dozen civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed when Saudi military aircraft struck a residential area in Yemen’s northwestern province of Hajjah as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its bombardment campaign against its southern neighbor. Saudi fighter jets carried out an airstrike on a neighborhood in …

Several US House Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to disclose the details of side deals between Saudi Arabia and US arms manufacturers that allow the kingdom to produce weapons with American technology on its own soil, Foreign Policy reported. The legislators argued that the side arrangements undercut the …

The spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces has censured Saudi Arabia for waging a war against the impoverished Arab country over destruction of two civilian vessels in the strategic Red Sea, vowing that Yemeni troops and allied fighters will respond to the act of aggression. Brigadier General Yahya Saree denounced the …

Saudi fighters violated the ceasefire in Yemen and launched a series of attacks on Al-Hudaydah province in the past 24 hours. Saudi fighter jets have once again violated their alleged ceasefire in Yemen, Al-Masirah reported. In the past 24 hours, the Saudi-led coalition has reportedly violated the ceasefire in Hudaydah, …

Britain is to resume selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite assessing that the country could be using them to commit war crimes, the government has announced. International trade secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday that the government had completed a review of how arms export licenses were granted in order …

Yemen’s army says its drones have hit targets in southwestern Saudi Arabia, following warnings that retaliatory attacks would hit deep in Saudi territory if the kingdom did not stop its aggression against the impoverished nation. The spokesman for Yemen’s Armed Forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, said in a tweet that …

The forces of the US-Saudi aggression continue to detain 22 ships with more than 536 tons of oil derivatives and prevent them from reaching the port of Hodeidah despite obtaining international permits. A source in Hodeidah port told Almasirah on Sunday that ships, seized by the aggression, carry more than …

The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, has warned that the shortage of humanitarian assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic threatens to push more children in Yemen to the brink of starvation. The UNICEF reported on Friday that the number of malnourished children in Yemen could increase to 2.4 million by the …

Unicef has warned that millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across war-torn Yemen amid a “huge” drop in humanitarian aid funding. It said the number of malnourished Yemeni children could reach 2.4 million by the end of the year, a …

Saudi-led coalition forces continued to violate the ceasefire agreement in Hodeidah province, while the air forces launched 36 raids on six provinces in the past 24 hours, a security official told Saba News Agency on Saturday. The official explained that the forces of aggression committed 107 breaches, including flying of …

The government of former Saudi-backed Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has threatened to “confront every armed rebellion” by once-allied UAE-aligned separatists, urging them to abandon a recent “self-rule” declaration in the war-torn country’s southern regions. In a series of Tweets on Tuesday, the Hadi regime’s embassy in the US …

Yemen has reported its first case of infection with the novel coronavirus in a southern province under the control of Saudi-sponsored militiamen loyal to the country’s former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi. This has raised fears of an outbreak in an impoverished country where five years of a bloody campaign …

The Saudi-led coalition, which had declared what it called a “ceasefire” in its devastating war against Yemen a few hours ago, targeted several Yemeni positions shortly after the announcement. On Wednesday night, the coalition claimed it was halting military operations in Yemen in support of UN efforts to end its …

At least 30 civilians have been killed and many others injured in fresh air raids conducted by Saudi warplanes on Yemen’s northern Jawf Province, Yemeni media report. The al-Masirah TV channel reported Saturday that the Riyadh regime carried out eight aerial assaults on Jawf’s al-Maslub district. The strikes, it added, …

South Korea says all the crew members and the three vessels seized earlier by Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement in the Red Sea have been released. The three vessels and the 16 people on them had been detained a few miles off Uqban Island, off the western coasts of Yemen, on …

The coalition  and its mercenaries continued their crimes and violations against citizens in Sa’ada governorate and violated the ceasefire agreement in Hodeidah, which led to the fall of martyrs and wounded during the past 24 hours. A security source pointed out that the brutal aggression planes targeted an air strike …

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has accused Israel of being behind attacks on Iranian-backed militia positions in Iraq, the first time Baghdad has directly blamed Israel on Monday. “Investigations into the targeting of some Popular Mobilization Forces positions indicate that Israel carried it out. The Shi’ite militias, known as …

Just 13 percent of Americans would support the US military joining Saudi Arabia in a conflict as part of a response to a recent attack on Saudi oil facilities, according to a new poll. The survey, conducted by the Business Insider news website, asked participants “what, if any, role do …

Saudi warplanes have bombed a mosque in Amran province in western Yemen, killing seven people, including children and women. Yemen’s al-Masirah TV reported that the victims lost their lives in an airstrike early on Monday. They were from the same family and had taken refuge in the mosque in order …