Yemen Prime minister Salem bin Breik resigned Yemen’s Prime Minister Salem bin Breik gave his resignation on Thursday. The country’s Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council accepted his resignation and appointed foreign minister Shaya Mohsen Zindani as the new prime minister, as reported by Reuters citing state news agency Saba.Bin Breik formally tendered his resignation, which the […]
File photo: Southern Yemen soldiers of Southern Transitional Council (STC) at a check point, in Aden, Yemen (Picture credit: AP) Saudi-led coalition airstrikes killed at least seven people and wounded more than 20 others in eastern Yemen on Friday, after warplanes targeted camps held by UAE-backed southern separatists, according to officials from the group.The strikes […]
Saudi Arabia’s airstrikes on Yemen’s southern port city of Mukalla this week have exposed a sharp and public rupture inside what was once a unified Gulf-backed coalition. What began as a complex war against the Iran-aligned Houthi movement has now evolved into an open confrontation between partners who once fought on the same side. Saudi-UAE […]
Representative image (IANS Photo) Recent territorial gains by Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council, or STC, have shifted the fragile power balance in the south of war-torn Yemen.As of Friday, the STC controlled almost all of Yemen’s south and east, including most of the governorates of Hadramout and Mahra, local oil facilities and the city of Aden […]
A suspected missile strike, likely from Yemen’s Houthi rebels, caused a vessel to catch fire in the Gulf of Aden on Monday. Initial reports indicated no casualties.Media outlets in Yemen, quoted by Associated Press, indicated a possible ballistic missile was launched from Houthi-controlled areas.The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations centre reported that a […]
Houthi fighters take part in a weekly anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen (File – PTI) The United Nations on Sunday said Yemen’s Huthi rebels detained at least 11 of its staff in raids on UN premises in Sanaa and Hodeida, days after Israel’s strike killed the group’s prime minister, Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi.According to the […]
Houthi fighters take part in a weekly anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen (File – PTI) The United Nations on Sunday said Yemen’s Huthi rebels detained at least 11 of its staff in raids on UN premises in Sanaa and Hodeida, days after Israel’s strike killed the group’s prime minister, Ahmed Ghaleb Nasser al-Rahawi.According to the […]
Loud explosions were heard in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Sunday afternoon after Israeli airstrikes hit the area, with Houthi officials reporting two deaths in the strikes.Israel confirmed the attacks, saying it carried out a strike in Sanaa. The strikes targeted an area near the presidential complex and missile bases.A Houthi security source told AFP that […]
Image of a starving girl (Pic credit: AFP) A harrowing image captured in Gaza, showing a severely malnourished young girl held in her mother’s arms, has become the latest flashpoint in the ongoing battle over truth, technology, and the Israel-Hamas war.The photo, taken on August 2, 2025, by AFP photojournalist Omar al-Qattaa, documents the frail, […]
DUBAI: A shipwreck off Yemen killed at least 27 migrants, with more than 100 still missing, two security sources in the southern province of Abyan told AFP on Sunday.“At this stage, the deaths of 27 people are confirmed, their bodies have been recovered,” one security source said, adding that “searches are ongoing”.A second source said […]
