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U.S. senators seek clampdown on Saudis over Yemen, journalist's murder

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U.S. senators seek clampdown on Saudis over Yemen, journalist’s murder

November 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday seeking to strike back at Saudi Arabia over the death of a Saudi journalist at a consulate in Turkey and for its role in Yemen’s devastating civil war. If it were to become law, the bill would suspend weapon sales to Saudi Arabia and prohibit...
Five reasons why Trump’s Iran sanctions will fail Opinions

Five reasons why Trump’s Iran sanctions will fail

November 4th, 20180 The next round of economic sanctions on Iran, which will start going into effect on Nov.4, will mainly target the country’s oil and gas industries. These sanctions were eased after the 2015 signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, but are being phased back in following...
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Yemeni teacher turns his home into school for 700 students

TAIZ, Yemen — Outside the home of Yemeni teacher Adel al-Shorbagy the queue of children lining up for education keeps getting longer. Almost 700 come daily to his house that he converted into a school in the government-held city of Taiz, which has been at the center of a three-and-a-half-year civil war that has left millions on the...
UNICEF: War a 'living hell' for Yemeni children World

UNICEF: War a ‘living hell’ for Yemeni children

September 16th, 20180 SANAA — In the malnutrition ward of a hospital in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, doctors weigh toddlers with protruding rib cages and skeletal limbs. Twenty children, most under the age of 2, being treated at the ward in Sab’een Hospital are among hundreds of thousands of children suffering from severe malnutrition in the impoverished...
U.N.: Some Saudi-led coalition air strikes in Yemen may amount to war crimes World

U.N.: Some Saudi-led coalition air strikes in Yemen may amount to war crimes

August 28th, 20180 Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in the war in Yemen have caused heavy civilian casualties and some may amount to war crimes, U.N. human rights experts said on Tuesday. The experts’ panel also said that fighters of the Houthi group had fired missiles into Saudi Arabia and shelled the Yemeni city of Taiz. It accused them of...
Yemen: Houthis fire two missiles at Saudi Arabia World

Yemen: Houthis fire two missiles at Saudi Arabia

August 26th, 20180 Yemen’s Houthi group fired two Zelzal-1 missiles in the direction of Saudi Arabian provinces alongside the joint border, the Houthis’ Masirah TV said in a tweet on Sunday. The two missiles targeted “gatherings of Saudi soldiers,” one in Jizan and the other in Najran, it said. The Saudi armed forces did not confirm the...
Yemen's ancient architecture threatened by war Art & Culture

Yemen’s ancient architecture threatened by war

August 18th, 20180 SANAA — Yemen’s three-year war has taken a heavy toll on Sanaa’s historic Old City, a dense warren of mosques, bath houses and 6,000 mud brick houses, which date from before the 11th century. Part of the Old City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, has been razed by bombing. Now only rubble and straggly palm trees remain, where...
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air strikes kill dozens of civilians, mainly children World

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition air strikes kill dozens of civilians, mainly children

August 11th, 20180 ADEN — Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed dozens of people, including children traveling on a bus through a market, in Yemen’s Saada province, a Yemeni health official and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. The Western-backed alliance fighting the Houthi Yemeni group said in a statement that...
Dearborn Man indicted with providing support to ISIS after being captured in Syria Local

Dearborn Man indicted with providing support to ISIS after being captured in Syria

July 28th, 20180 DETROIT — On Tuesday, July 24, a Dearborn man was charged in an unsealed indictment with providing material support to ISIS after being captured on an ISIS battlefield.  Ibraheem Musaibli, 28, was taken into custody by coalition-backed forces this month while attempting to escape the Middle Euphrates River Valley in northern Syria,...
Yemeni prisoners claim UAE officers sexually torture them World

Yemeni prisoners claim UAE officers sexually torture them

June 26th, 20180 Hundreds of Yemeni prisoners have been sexually abused at a jail in southern Yemen believed to be run by the United Arab Emirates, according to several witnesses. Fifteen officers who arrived at Beir Ahmed prison in Aden hid their faces behind their headdresses, but their accents were clearly identifiable as from the UAE, Associated...
Yemen risks new cholera outbreak as rainy season begins World

Yemen risks new cholera outbreak as rainy season begins

May 4th, 20180 SANAA — Yemen's rainy season will likely trigger another wave of cholera, putting millions at risk in the war-torn country, which is still reeling from one of the world's worst outbreaks of the killer disease, scientists warned on Thursday. Experts also called for a public health campaign during Ramadan, which begins mid-May, after...
Comparative geopolitical analysis: Yemen and the U.S. Opinions

Comparative geopolitical analysis: Yemen and the U.S.

April 30th, 20180 By Dr. Rais Attamimi and Dr. Ali Alghail   Recently, some comparative analysis has been in the mainstream media about the way in which, to take one example, American citizens led by the teenagers protested the dangerous availability of assault weapons on the one hand, and citizens of the Middle East, Yemen in particular, when,...
Syria donors fall short without U.S. aid, warn of cruel end-game World

Syria donors fall short without U.S. aid, warn of cruel end-game

April 26th, 20180 BRUSSELS ― International donors raised $4.4 billion in emergency aid for Syria and its neighbors this year on Wednesday, but the total fell well short of the U.N. target for 2018 after the United States failed to submit a pledge. Humanitarian agencies also pleaded for peace before the Syrian military and its Russian and Iranian...
Bride among 20 killed, 50 wounded in Saudi-led airstrike that hit wedding in Yemen World

Bride among 20 killed, 50 wounded in Saudi-led airstrike that hit wedding in Yemen

April 23rd, 20180 SANAA - At least 20 people including the bride were killed when an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition hit a wedding party in northern Yemen, health officials have said. The dead were mostly women and children gathered in a tent set up for the wedding in the Bani Qayis district, according to Khaled al-Nadhri, the leading health...
U.N. Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia World

U.N. Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia

March 30th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council condemned a barrage of missile attacks against Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi group and expressed grave concern at reports of violations of an U.N. arms embargo on Houthi leaders. In a statement, the 15-member Security Council expressed alarm at a Houthi threat to...
Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war World

Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war

March 26th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — The Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen vowed on Monday to fire more missiles into Saudi Arabia unless it stops bombing the country, after one of its missiles caused casualties in the Saudi capital for the first time. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis accused them of using Iranian-made missiles....
Trump's red-carpet reception for Saudi crown prince: Give us your money! U.S.A

Trump’s red-carpet reception for Saudi crown prince: Give us your money!

March 23rd, 20180 WASHINGTON — President Trump gave a warm welcome to Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday and credited U.S. defense sales to the Saudis with boosting American jobs, even as Riyadh's involvement in Yemen's civil war faced criticism. In the Oval Office, Trump and the crown prince praised the strength of U.S.-Saudi...
Iran, Yemen in focus as Trump and Saudi prince meet at White House World

Iran, Yemen in focus as Trump and Saudi prince meet at White House

March 20th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― President Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will discuss tensions with Iran and a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen which has come under criticism in Congress when they meet on Tuesday. Their talks at the White House are part of the first visit by the prince to the United States since...
Houthis and Saudi Arabia in secret talks to end war in Yemen World

Houthis and Saudi Arabia in secret talks to end war in Yemen

March 16th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — Saudi Arabia and its adversaries in Yemen's armed Houthi movement are holding secret talks to try to end a three-year-old war that has unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis, diplomats and Yemeni political sources said. A Saudi-led coalition is fighting to counter the influence of Riyadh's arch-foe Iran, an...
Saudi crown prince: Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear bomb if Iran does World

Saudi crown prince: Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear bomb if Iran does

March 16th, 20180 RIYADH — Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if its arch-rival Iran does so, the kingdom's crown prince said in remarks released on Thursday, raising the prospect of a nuclear arms race in a region already riven with conflict. "Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt if Iran developed a...
Street artist in Yemen remembers casualties of war World

Street artist in Yemen remembers casualties of war

March 2nd, 20180 SANAA — Yemeni street artist Haifa Subay is painting murals to help ensure that victims of Yemen's grueling three-year civil war are not forgotten. Her latest mural, portraying a one-legged casualty of a landmine, is one of many Subay has done in the capital Sanaa during the war, which has killed thousands, driven many more from...
Free clinic opens for Yemenis impoverished by war World

Free clinic opens for Yemenis impoverished by war

February 27th, 20180 SANAA - Volunteer doctors are offering free medical services for a week at a clinic in the Yemeni capital Sanaa to treat people impoverished by a war which has killed thousands and wrecked the economy. The initiative, dubbed “Breeze of Hope,” is the first by a group of nurses and doctors to conduct electrocardiograms, x-rays and...
U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge World

U.N. Security Council mulls Saudi praise for Yemen aid pledge

February 16th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council is considering a British proposal to praise Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for pledging nearly $1 billion to ease Yemen’s humanitarian crisis, even as U.N. experts accuse a Saudi-led military coalition of using “the threat of starvation as an instrument of war” in...
Yemen's Islah party suspends membership of Nobel laureate Karman World

Yemen’s Islah party suspends membership of Nobel laureate Karman

February 6th, 20180 DUBAI — Yemeni Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman was suspended from a party allied with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after she accused the Saudi-led coalition that backs him in the country’s civil war of acting as occupiers. Karman won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her role in Arab Spring protests that ousted authoritarian...
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