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  • FILE: This AFPTV screengrab from a video made on 1 August 2019, shows Yemeni security forces rushing at the scene of a missile attack on a military camp west of Yemen's government-held second city Aden. Picture: AFP

    Blast hits military parade in Yemen, at least five dead

    No claim of responsibility was made and Houthi media did not immediately comment on the blast or accusation.

    874 days ago
  • FILE: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Picture: AFP

    Saudi crown prince hosts Iraq PM for talks on oil attacks

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hosted Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi for talks on Wednesday focused on attacks on the kingdom's oil infrastructure, which Washington has blamed on Iran.

    969 days ago
  • FILE: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Picture: AFP

    Rouhani says Iran resists sanctions, drives US 'desperate'

    The United States on Friday imposed another round of sanctions on Iran, including on its central bank which was already blacklisted.

    971 days ago
  • FILE: Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gives a speech outside 10 Downing Street in London on 24 July 2019 on the day he was formally appointed British prime minister. Picture: AFP

    UK believes Iran was behind Saudi oil attacks - Johnson

    The United States and Saudi Arabia have already blamed Iran for the 14 September strikes that initially halved Saudi oil output. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has claimed responsibility.

    971 days ago
  • FILE: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds a joint press conference with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani (not pictured) at the Sheraton Grand in the Qatqri cqpitql Doha on 13 January 2019. Picture: AFP

    Pompeo says US mission is to avoid war with Iran but measures in place to deter

    Tensions between Washington and Tehran have further escalated after an attack last weekend on Saudi oil facilities that initially disrupted half of the oil production from the kingdom, the world’s largest oil exporter, and was blamed on Tehran by the United States and Saudi Arabia.

    972 days ago
  • FILE: US President Donald Trump participates in a Cabinet meeting at the White House on 16 July 2019 in Washington,DC. Picture: AFP

    Trump sees many options short of war with Iran after attacks on Saudis

    Trump said on Twitter that he had ordered the US Treasury to “substantially increase sanctions” on Iran, which denies carrying out the attacks, and told reporters the unspecified, punitive economic measures would be unveiled within 48 hours.

    976 days ago
  • Smoke billows from an Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq about 60km (37 miles) southwest of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia's eastern province on 14 September 2019. Drone attacks sparked fires at two Saudi Aramco oil facilities, the interior ministry said, in the latest assault on the state-owned energy giant as it prepares for a much-anticipated stock listing. Picture: AFP

    Saudi to announce oil attacks findings as US weighs retaliation

    Riyadh, which is bogged down in a five-year war against Tehran-aligned rebels in neighbouring Yemen, has said that the weapons used were Iranian-made, but has not directly blamed its arch rival.

    976 days ago
  • FILE: US secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Picture: AFP

    Pompeo heads to Saudi Arabia after US blames Iran

    Vice President Mike Pence announced that Pompeo was on his way to the kingdom to 'discuss our response.'

    977 days ago
  • FILE: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP

    Iran leader rules out US talks as tensions rise over Saudi attacks

    Tensions between Iran and the US and its allies have threatened to boil over since May last year when President Donald Trump abandoned a 2015 nuclear deal and began reimposing sanctions in its campaign of 'maximum pressure'.

    977 days ago
  • A picture taken on 15 September 2019 shows an Aramco oil facility at the edge of the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. Picture: AFP

    Saudi oil facility attacks to hit SA economy, warns economist

    Standard Bank economist Elna Moolman said that the effects would be felt here at home.

    978 days ago
  • Smoke billows from an Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq about 60km (37 miles) southwest of Dhahran in Saudi Arabia's eastern province on 14 September 2019. Drone attacks sparked fires at two Saudi Aramco oil facilities, the interior ministry said, in the latest assault on the state-owned energy giant as it prepares for a much-anticipated stock listing. Picture: AFP

    US blames Iran for Saudi oil attack, Trump says 'locked and loaded'

    Earlier in the day, a senior US official told reporters that evidence from the attack, which hit the world’s biggest oil-processing facility, indicated Iran was behind it, instead of the Yemeni Houthi group that had claimed responsibility.

    979 days ago
  • This AFPTV screen grab from a video made on 1 September 2019, shows a view of destroyed buildings in the aftermath of reported air strikes carried out by the Saudi-led military coalition against a Huthi military target in Dhamar, south of the capital Sanaa, in an attack the rebels said killed dozens of people. Picture: AFP.

    More than 100 killed in air strike on Yemen prison - ICRC

    The Saudi-led military coalition said it targeted a facility run by the Huthi rebels that 'stores drones and missiles', but the rebels said the attack had levelled a building they used as a prison.

    993 days ago
  • FILE: A Yemeni mother holds her malnourished child as they wait for treatments in a medical centre in the village of Al Mutaynah, in the Tuhayta province, western Yemen, in November 2018. Picture: AFP.

    UN finalises accord with Yemen rebels to resume food aid

    The UN had suspended deliveries of food aid to rebel-held areas on 20 June following accusations of "diversion of food" meant for Yemeni civilians.

    1021 days ago
  • This AFPTV screengrab from a video made on 1 August 2019, shows Yemeni security forces carrying a body at the scene of a missile attack on a military camp west of Yemen's government-held second city Aden. Picture: AFP

    Houthi attack on military parade in Yemen kills more than 30 - sources

    The attack killed at least 32 people, a medical and a security source told Reuters. Medecins Sans Frontieres tweeted that tens of wounded were hospitalised.

    1024 days ago
  • FILE: Yemeni pro-government forces gather on the eastern outskirts of Hodeida as they continue to battle for the control of the city from Huthi rebels on 9 November 2018. Picture: AFP

    Saudi intercepts five Yemen rebel drones in new airport attack: coalition

    Huthi-run Al-Masirah TV reported earlier that the Iran-aligned rebels had carried out drone attacks on Abha Airport.

    1073 days ago
  • FILE: Yemeni pro-government forces gather on the eastern outskirts of Hodeida as they continue to battle for the control of the city from Huthi rebels on 9 November 2018. Picture: AFP

    Yemen rebel attack wounds 26 at Saudi airport

    The Huthi rebels said earlier that they had launched a missile at the airport in the Saudi mountain resort city.

    1074 days ago
  • Members of the World Food Programme visit the Red Sea mills warehouse in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida on 5 May 2019. Picture: AFP.

    Rebels set to begin pull-out from Yemen aid port

    The head of the rebels' Supreme Revolutionary Committee said the rebels had been forced to act unilaterally after the Saudi-backed government repeatedly delayed a parallel pullback from parts of the city of Hodeida.

    1106 days ago
  • Map and factfile on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

    Fact file on the world's worst humanitarian crisis

    A map and fact file on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

    1152 days ago
  • A Yemeni boy waters plants and cleans tombstones in a cemetery in the capital Sanaa on 25 March 2019. Yemen has the highest level of child labour in the Arab world. Picture: AFP

    After school, Yemen's children seek work at the cemetery

    Ahmed is among millions of children struggling to stay in school in Yemen, where war, poverty and disease have brought the Arab world's poorest country to its knees.

    1153 days ago
  • Yemen flag. Picture: theflagshop.co.uk

    Yemeni militiamen suspected of child rape - Amnesty

    Amnesty said it had documented evidence of the rape of three boys and the sexual assault of a fourth in the southwestern city of Taez, controlled by pro-government forces and surrounded by Yemeni rebels.

    1168 days ago
  • Pope Francis arrives to speak to reporters aboard a plane on the way to Abu Dhabi on 3 February 2019. Pope Francis heads to the UAE on 3 February for the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula, birthplace of Islam, where he will hold an open-air mass for tens of thousands of Catholics. Picture: AFP

    Pope condemns Yemen war ahead of historic Gulf visit

    The pope has urged all sides to implement a fragile peace deal and help deliver aid to millions of hungry people.

    1203 days ago
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