Pakistan faces an unenviable dilemma -- whether to join a Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen or stay out and risk angering its old ally which provides it with huge financial support./ Pakistan, currently the Islamic world's only nuclear power, has provided military ...
Yemeni civilians shuddered in fear and bristled with anger under an against Shiite rebels on Tuesday, day six of fighting that prompted international aid organizations to express alarm over high civilian casualties from the strikes and violence roiling the country. Residents of the capital, ...
Yemenis pack their belongings into the back of a truck in Sanaa on March 31, 2015, as they flee the capital (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Geneva (AFP) - The Red Cross said Tuesday a local aid worker had been killed in Yemen, adding that it could not fly in desperately-needed aid due to a lack of ...
Iran wants all parties in Yemen to return to talks, Tehran's deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Tuesday, adding the Islamic Republic and Saudi Arabia could work together to solve the conflict there. "Iran and Saudi Arabia can cooperate to solve the Yemeni crisis," ...
Iran wants all parties in Yemen to return to calm and dialogue, Tehran's deputy foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian said on Tuesday, adding the Islamic Republic and Saudi Arabia could work together to solve the conflict there. "Iran and Saudi Arabia can cooperate to solve the Yemeni ...
Smoke and flames rise from an alleged weapons storage depot at a Shiite Huthi rebel camp after an airstrike by the Saudi-led alliance on March 30, 2015 in the Yemeni capital Sanaa (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais )/ Sanaa (AFP) - Explosions lit up the sky above the Yemeni capital as Arab coalition ...
Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, hold up their weapons to protest Saudi-led airstrikes during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen, March 26, 2015./ Iran's foreign ministry said Tuesday the government had sent aid to Yemen but denied shipping weapons to the country where a Saudi-led coalition is conducting ...
TEHRAN, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Iran genuinely hopes for an end to Saudi-led airstrikes on Houthi positions and reaching a political solution to the Yemeni crisis despite being accused by some neighbors of meddling in the Arab country, analysts have said. Iran's policy toward Yemen's crisis has ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Iran's official news agency says Tehran has sent aid to Yemen, its first such shipment since a Saudi-led coalition of Sunni Arab states launched airstrikes last week to halt the advance of the country's Shiite rebels known as the Houthis. IRNA says the aid was delivered by ...
A Yemeni collects his belongings after his house was hit by an airstrike of the Saudi-led coalition targeting Houthi rebels' positions in Sana, the capital, on March 31. (Yahya Arhab / European Pressphoto Agency)/ Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen continue for sixth day, as U.N. and Red Cross call ...
Country’s deputy foreign minister speaks out against Saudi Arabia, allies for airstrikes/ Iran called for political talks among all parties in Yemen as the Saudi-led coalition on Tuesday extended its campaign of airstrikes against Houthi militants across the country. Iran’s deputy foreign ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Pakistani military says it is holding a joint military exercise with Saudi Arabia. The military's statement on Monday says the drill is taking part near the city of Taif, in the mountains near Mecca in the western part of Saudi Arabia. It has been underway since March 19, ...
An air strike killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced people in northwest Yemen on Monday, aid workers said, as Arab warplanes bombard rebels around the country./ The International Organization for Migration said 45 internally displaced people had been killed and 65 wounded at the ...
led coalition is trying to stop Yemen's major cities falling to Houthi Shiite insurgents after the removal of President Hadi, who has fled into exile. Rivalry with Shiite Iran lies behind the military intervention./ An airstrike killed dozens of civilians Monday at a camp for displaced families ...
Iran has called for an “immediate halt” to the Saudi-led military operation against Shi’ite Huthi rebels in Yemen, warning that the "attack" endangered the whole region. Speaking in Kuwait on March 31, Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein-Amir Abdollahian said Iran and Saudi Arabia could cooperate to ...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A series of airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition shook Yemen's capital, Sanaa, overnight and early Monday morning as dozens of families fled the capital seeking safety. The strikes were targeting Shiite rebels, who have controlled the capital since September and have overrun ...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani state TV says a high-level delegation has left for Saudi Arabia to assess whether to take part in Riyadh's coalition battling Shiite rebels in Yemen. The TV report Tuesday says the delegation includes Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif, National Security ...
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham/ Iran has categorically dismissed as “sheer lies” allegations of weapons and ammunition delivery to Yemen. “Claims about the dispatch of weapons from the Islamic Republic of Iran to Yemen are completely fabricated and sheer lies,” Iran’s Foreign ...
Reunions after four Israeli hostages freed in IDF raid/ Four hostages kidnapped by Hamas have been reunited with their families, after being rescued in a raid that Palestinian officials say killed dozens of people. Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrei Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were ...
The Amarillo City Council is considering a new ban on using local roads to seek an abortion, despite the procedure already being outlawed across Texas (Moisés ÁVILA)/ Abortion is illegal statewide in Texas, but residents in the city of Amarillo want to go a step further -- banning even the use ...
Four hostages kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival during the 7 October attacks have been rescued from central Gaza. Noa Argamani, 26, Almog Meir Jan, 22, Andrei Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 41, were freed during a "high-risk, complex mission" from two separate buildings in the ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Some California towns are experiencing fast moving supply and rising demand when it comes to the housing market, according to a popular real estate site. In fact, 19 Golden State towns made Realtor.com’s list for “hottest real estate markets” in 2024, including two areas ...
LACONIA — Laconia Motorcycle Week, now in its 101st year and expected to attract 300,000 visitors to the city and $100 million in business, isn’t the raucous rally of the 1960s and 1970s anymore, and that might be for the best. The movers and shakers who make Motorcycle Week happen gathered at ...
including children - from across the Gaza Strip have been forced to flee their homes as Israel's offensive continues/ The UN has added the Israeli military to a list of offenders failing to protect children last year, Israel's ambassador to the UN says. Gilad Erdan, who said he had been notified ...
The Houthis control Yemen's capital, Sana'a, and the country's north-west/ The UN has called for the immediate release of 11 of its personnel who have been detained by the Houthi movement in Yemen. The employees were taken in various parts of the conflict-torn country, in what appears to be a ...
Park managers at a popular New England beach are warning visitors of quicksand-like sinkholes after several people recently got their legs stuck. The warning is in effect at Maine’s Popham Beach State Park, not far from Brunswick, according to Sean Vaillancourt, who manages the beach for the ...
It appears the shark liked neither its prey's texture nor taste. A team of scientists reported getting a surprise after they witnessed regurgitate a spikey land mammal from down under that resembles a hedgehog. In what may be a first-ever world-sighting, James Cook University (JC) announced ...
NEW YORK (AP) — They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good. An Associated Press analysis found their numbers ...