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 […]

 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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]

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 […]

US Defense Secretary James Mattis has called for a ceasefire in Yemen and the start of peace talks in the next 30 days. According to Ankara-based Anadolu News Agency, Mattis said Tuesday during a speech at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. that US wants “to see everybody around a peace table based […]

Hossein Jaberi Ansari, a senior assistant to the Iranian foreign minister, has said the aim of his recent visit to Moscow was to find ways to put an end to the Saudi-led war on Yemen. “In this trip we tried to reach a framework between Iran and Russia for talks about Yemen,” Jaberi Ansari said, […]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Dozens of Saudi-paid mercenaries were killed and injured after Yemeni troops foiled their attack against Nehm district of the central Ma’rib province, a military source said. Speaking to Saba news agency on condition of anonymity on Tuesday, the source added that two vehicles belonging to the mercenaries were also destroyed during the […]

Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF36) has announced the lineup for the 2018 Broken Olive Branches section. The section this year will screen more than 10 feature films with a focus on the conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Myanmar. According to FIFF Director Reza Mirkarimi, the section is also devoted to such contemporary themes as sectarianism, humanitarian […]