UN Seeks $21.9bln in Aid Next Year, Largest Needs in Yemen
The United Nations appealed for $21.9 billion on Tuesday to address 21 humanitarian crises worldwide next year, including $4 billion for Yemen, its largest aid operation. The appeal to donor countries does not include the funding requirements for Syria, which are expected to bring the total up to $25 billion, it added, Reuters reported. Speaking […]
Yemen’s Houthis, Saudi-led coalition reach prisoner exchange deal
A Houthi official says the Saudi-led coalition and militants fighting on its behalf in Yemen have signed a UN-brokered deal for exchanging prisoners with the Houthi Ansarullah movement, prior to the peace negotiations due to be launched in Sweden. Abdul Qader al-Murtaza, chairman of the Houthi-run Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, confirmed the news to Turkey’s […]
Yemen Peace Talks to Start in Sweden Wednesday: Sources
Houthi officials are expected to travel to Sweden for talks as early as Wednesday to end the nearly 4-year-old Saudi-led war on Yemen. UN special envoy Martin Griffiths arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Monday to escort the Houthi delegation. The peace talks may start Wednesday, two sources familiar with the matter said, Reuters […]
13 People Killed, Injured in Fresh Saudi Airstrikes on Yemen’s Sa’ada
At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed and injured when Saudi warplanes targeted an area of Yemen’s northern province of Sa’ada. According to Yemen’s Saba news agency, the Saudi aerial aggression targeted residential areas in the Kataf district on Monday, killing four and injuring nine civilians there. Since March 2015, the Saudi regime, […]
UN Envoy Arrives in Sana’a to Escort Houthis to Yemen Peace Talks
The UN’s Yemen envoy, Martin Griffiths, landed at Sana’a international airport in Yemen Monday for talks with Houthis ahead of planned peace talks in Sweden this month. An AFP photographer at the airport said Griffiths did not take questions on arrival. Fifty wounded Houthis will also be evacuated from Sana’a for medical treatment Monday, the […]
Zarif says Iran’s four-point plan is still viable option for Yemen crisis
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated on Friday that Iran’s four-point plan is still the only viable option to resolve the Yemeni crisis. “I said this on the crisis in Yemen in April 2015. Today, after untold human suffering & war crimes by the Saudi coalition & its U.S. accomplices, & efforts to whitewash […]
Senate Advances Bill to End US Involvement in Saudi-Led War on Yemen
The US Senate delivered a strong bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump’s policy on Saudi Arabia by overwhelmingly voting to advance a resolution that would end all Washington’s involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The 63-to-37 vote came after a contentious administration briefing on the war, a discussion that also addressed Saudi involvement in […]
Saudi Attacks on Yemen’s Hudaydah to Destroy UN Peace Efforts: Ansarullah
Spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah Movement Mohammad Abdulsalam said the increase of Saudi-led air strikes on the port city of Hudaydah will destroy peace efforts of the UN special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths. In remarks released on Sunday, Abdulsalam said the Saudi-led fighter jets have bombarded Hudaydah 35 times over the last 12 hours, […]
Manama’s dangerous assembly; Trump’s plot against Iran with the Arab NATO
TEHRAN – A security summit about formation of the Arab NATO, the Middle East Strategic Alliance (Mesa), ended on Sunday in Bahrain’s capital. Earlier last month, there was a summit on the Arab NATO in Kuwait, an initiative pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump to confront Iran in terms of political, economy and military affairs. […]
‘Smart’ missiles can change the region’s struggle for power
TEHRAN – Yemeni army forces, supported by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have achieved much in the past four years in their resistance against the Saudis crimes. On Sunday, Brigadier Yahya Saree, spokesman of Yemeni Armed Forces and Popular Committees addressed last week’s military operations and missile tests prior to unveiling Badr P-1 missile. The […]