Yemen

SANA’A (Web Desk) Yemeni air defenses have shot down a Saudi reconnaissance drone over the war-torn country’s central Ma’rib province.Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah satellite television network reported on Thursday that the drone was shot down over the province’s Harib al-Qaramish region.On December 30, Yemeni fighters managed to shoot down a Saudi …

SANA’A (Web Desk) The Saudi-led coalition fighter jets launched new attacks on Serwah district in Yemen’s Marib province on Friday, a military official told Saba News Agency.In another development, the Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted two airstrikes on Bir-Hamdi and Taiba areas, four airstrikes on Boqea area in Kutaf district and …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the United Nations to impose sanctions on Saudi Arabia’s military leaders, including Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who also serves as the defense minister, over atrocities committed in the war on Yemen.The New York-based rights organization said in its World …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Yemeni forces on Thursday morning targeted a Saudi military site in the kingdom’s border province of Najran with a homegrown ballistic missile.The missile command of the Yemeni army and Popular Committees fired a short-range ballistic missile on the Saudi air defense site in the kingdom’s southwestern province …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Human Rights Watch accused Saudi Arabia on Thursday of violating international humanitarian law in Yemen and stepping up arrests and prosecutions of activists seeking reform or voicing peaceful dissent, Reuters reports.In its World Report 2018, which reviews human rights practices in more than 90 countries, the rights …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Yemeni army soldiers, supported by fighters from allied Popular Committees, have shot dead three Saudi soldiers in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan, in retaliation for the Riyadh regime’s military campaign against the crisis-hit country.The media bureau of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement reported on Wednesday that …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Yemeni forces say they have fired ballistic missiles at two key targets in southwestern Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the kingdom’s fatal raids.The Yemeni army’s missile division specified the targets as a Saudi military command center in Najran region, which came under fire on Wednesday, and an …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Yemen’s Ministry of Tourism has called on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to stop destroying the Island of Socotra today, SABA reported.An official complaint was sent to the United Nation’s Security Council to accelerate a resolution to prevent the “occupying forces” from spoiling the natural resources on …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Saudi Arabia is “forcibly” recruiting Yemeni civilians who are illegally residing on its territory to fight on its borders with Yemen against Houthis, The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights revealed yesterday.The Geneva-based organisation quoted the Yemeni residents as saying that the recruitment move was part of the …

SANA’A (Web Desk) Saudi warplanes have launched a series of attacks on Yemen’s western province of Hudaydah, killing at least six people.Late on Monday, Saudi fighter planes attacked a farm in the province’s al-Jerahi directorate killing two farmers and injuring several more.Four more civilians were killed when Saudi jets launched …