ANKARA (AA) – Britain’s maritime agency has reported an incident that occurred off the Al-Hudaydah coast, western Yemen. In a statement, the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said the incident took place 63 nautical miles southwest of Al-Hudaydah port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. It reported two explosions “in close...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States said Monday it would resume sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia, several years after they were suspended over human rights concerns in Yemen. Since the freeze, and with a truce holding in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has “met their end of the deal, and we are prepared […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi group on Sunday announced the resumption of flights between Sanaa and both Egypt and India. The move marks the first direct flights from Sanaa to Cairo and Mumbai since the conflict in Yemen began nearly ten years ago. The new flight schedule includes a daily flight between Sanaa and […]
Hodeida, Yemen — AFP Following Israel’s deadly strike on the port of Hodeida, Yemen’s Houthis have promised a “huge” retaliation against Israel, as regional fallout widens from months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. On Sunday, Israel claimed that it had intercepted a missile allegedly fired from Yemen and...
United Nations, United States – AFP UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday condemned a drone strike on Tel Aviv claimed by Yemen’s Huthis that left one person dead, expressing concern over a possible further escalation, a spokesman said. “The Secretary-General remains deeply concerned about the risk such dangerous ac...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – AFP Yemen’s Huthis claimed a drone attack on Tel Aviv on Friday that left one person dead, saying it marked a “new phase” in its operations against Israel. The group fired a “new drone called ‘Yafa’, which is capable of bypassing the enemy’s interception systems,R...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi group has said that it jointly attacked with the Iraqi Islamic Resistance group a “vital target” in the Israeli southern city of Eilat. In a statement, the Houthi group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said the attack was carried out with a number of combat drones, and claimed to [&...
MUSCAT, Oman (AA) – Oman hosted on Sunday a new round of UN-sponsored prisoner swap negotiations between Yemen’s government and the Houthi group. “We are hopeful of achieving positive results” during the talks, government negotiator Majid Fadael told Anadolu. “Our fundamental demand as a government team is the unconditional release of all pris...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Yemen’s Houthis announced late Saturday that their forces, in coordination with an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, targeted five ships in the northern Israeli port of Haifa and the Mediterranean Sea. In a statement, the Houthis said: “The Yemeni armed forces carried out two joint mili...
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – AFP A merchant ship is thought to have sunk in the Red Sea after an attack by Yemeni Houthis that forced it to be abandoned last week, a security agency said. The MV Tutor, which was holed during an attack that left one Filipino sailor dead, is “believed to have […]
