AL-MUKALLA: At least 100 Houthis were killed in heavy fighting with government forces outside Yemen’s central city of Marib in the past day as the Iran-backed rebels pressed ahead with assaults to recapture the strategic city, local officials and media reports said on Monday. Backed by massive air support from Arab coalition warplanes, Yemeni government […]
A further 34 people were caught trying to cross into neighboring countries, and 27 were held for involvement in transporting and harboring violators
At his annual year-end press conference on Thursday, the Russian president slammed Washington and its NATO allies for talking about “Russian aggression” while surrounding Moscow with offensive missile systems and carrying out several waves of expansion toward Russia’s borders. “You cheated us shamelessly,” Putin said. The US and its allies have pinned Russia into a […]
RIYADH: Saudi police have arrested three people who destroyed a traffic monitoring device at Umwah governorate in the southwestern region of Asir, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. The suspects bragged about shooting and destroying the Saher camera with a gun, and shared their criminal act on social media. Investigators later found that one […]
According to what a NATO official confirmed, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has decided to convene this council on January 12 and that the alliance is in contact with Moscow on the issue. The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that it had received the proposal, but added that it was still being studied, with the order and date of the talks still to […]
RIYADH: The Arab coalition spokesman on Sunday discussed the recent developments in Yemen and said will share more details on what it described as the involvement of Lebanese Hezbollah group in Yemen, and the militias’ use of the country’s Sanaa airport. Colonel Turki Al-Maliki said the Houthi militants who are backed by the Iranian regime […]
IDF says gunmen open fire at military post near Nablus; medics say seven Palestinians shot with live fire, 35 others with rubber bullets
Security forces fired tear gas to disperse the crowds on a tenth day of major demonstrations since an Oct. 25 coup
A British citizen is missing after being captured by the Taliban in Kabul, the British tabloid Daily Mirror reported yesterday (Friday). There has been no news of Grant Bailey, in his fifties, working for an NGO in Afghanistan, since Saturday when he was arrested at gunpoint, a source close to the British security services quoted by the newspaper said. “We are aware […]
The US embassy in Riyadh says the attack endangered the Saudi people alongside over 70,000 US expats