The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said on Sunday (Feb 18) it had signed military deals worth 3.87 billion UAE dirhams ($1.1 billion) with international companies. A spokesman for the IDEX defense conference said the UAE [ More … ]
Yemen war and killing of Jamal Khashoggi have put pressure on the kingdom that shows no sign of letting up in 2019 If 2018 was the time of Mohammed bin Salman, the next year is likely [ More … ]
In a new resolution, a bipartisan group of senators is calling for the United States to end its involvement—specifically its support of Saudi Arabia—in the Yemen conflict. The Senate has voted 63-37 to pass a [ More … ]
The US Senate on Thursday delivered back-to-back rebukes of President Trump’s embrace of Saudi Arabia, first voting to end U.S. participation in the Saudi-led war in Yemen and then unanimously approving a measure blaming the [ More … ]
BY: Yasin Aktay If the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was committed using all the means of the Saudi Arabian government, then those who commissioned it can theoretically be distinguished from the state, regardless of their [ More … ]
Aid Group “Save the Children” says that some 85,000 children may have died of hunger in Yemen An estimated 85,000 children under age 5 may have died of severe acute malnutrition since Yemen’s civil war [ More … ]
Weapon that hit bus was 500-pound laser-guided MK 82 bomb made by US defense contractor Lockheed Martin, CNN reports The bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition in an attack on a school bus that killed [ More … ]
Residents say coalition warplanes continue to bombard Houthi positions in the city, as rebels entrench and prepare for street fighting UAE-backed Yemeni government forces seized Hodeidah airport from Houthi rebels on Wednesday, their commander said, [ More … ]
Capture of compound – a key supply route for aid into the country – would be a significant gain for the pro-government alliance Forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition fighting for Yemen’s main port city [ More … ]
Saudi media says ship was an oil tanker, while Houthis claim to have hit a ‘warship’ in response to air attack by the Saudi coalition in Hodeidah Houthi forces in Yemen launched an attack on [ More … ]
Riyadh’s new migrant rules have pushed tens of thousands of Yemenis out of jobs and back to a country on the brink, with disastrous results Saudi Arabia has been accused of forcing tens of thousands [ More … ]
Norway has also halted all arms sales to UAE following its involvement in the war in Yemen Germany is set to halt all arms exports to countries involved in the war in Yemen, a government [ More … ]
Days ago Saudi Arabia had published a film about a virtual victory over Iran and the film showed the entry of Saudi forces to the Iranian nuclear reactor and captured the commander of the Quds [ More … ]
Observers say that the Gulf move to engage with the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islah points towards an attempt to review their Yemen strategy Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates held rare talks with Yemen’s Muslim [ More … ]
The 4 December death of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, at the hands of his former Houthi coalition partners, is a culmination of the differing interests that informed the coalition’s initial inception, and alludes [ More … ]
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