Category: Yemen

UN says world faces largest humanitarian crisis since 1945

Famine was recently declared in parts of South Sudan, World Food Programme has air-dropped aid to catchment areas in the country. The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine, the U.N. humanitarian chief said Friday.

United Nations warns world faces largest humanitarian crisis since 1945

The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine, the UN humanitarian chief has said. The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries facing starvation and famine, the UN humanitarian chief has said.

At least two killed in new drone strikes on al Qaeda in Yemen: residents

Drones fired missiles at suspected al Qaeda targets in two separate attacks in Yemen on Saturday, local sources said, in what appeared to be a third successive day of U.S. strikes against militants in the Arab country. Tribal sources and residents said one of the pilotless aircraft unleashed its missiles on a vehicle traveling on the outskirts of the southern city of Ahwar, killing two suspected al Qaeda members inside.

Clashes erupt on Yemen’s coast, killing 20

A man walks past a vehicle after an Apache helicopter from a Saudi-led military coalition fired a missile at it outside Aden International Airport, Yemen February 12, 2017. REUTERS/Stringer A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on February 14, 2017, on page 8.

How Trump Is Empowering the Saudi Destruction of Yemen

The Trump administration seems to have abandoned the possibility of a diplomatic resolution to the Saudi-led destruction of Yemen. In his first few weeks in office Trump approved a disastrous Navy SEAL raid in the interior, parked a guided missile destroyer with history in Yemen off its coast, and now might approve major arms shipments to Arab Gulf states currently under scrutiny for war crimes in the country.

Dozens killed in Saudi push to take Yemeni port

News selected on topics and regions – oil and gas, business, politics, IT, the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea region, Central Asia Ranking of the Azerbaijani banking sector Nearly three dozen people have been killed after Houthi fighters and militias loyal to resigned president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi clashed for the control of a strategic coastal city in Ta’izz province, Press TV reported. The clashes took place in the Red Sea port city of Mokha on Wednesday in which at least eight Saudi mercenaries were killed, medical sources said.

Yemen: No US ground missions without approval

Yemen’s government has “requested” the United States stop ground operations in the country unless they have the government’s full approval after an anti-terror raid authorized by President Donald Trump killed civilians, two senior Yemeni defense officials told CNN on Wednesday. The Yemeni officials said the government had sent a firm message to the US administration condemning the January 29 operation that left one US Navy Seal dead along with Yemeni women and children, complaining of a lack of coordination with its officials.

Yemen Aftermath: Trump’s First Military Raid Continues To Raise Questions

The tribal delegation visiting Sheikh Abdelraouf al-Dhahab was still talking in the very early hours of the morning last Sunday when his nephew, Abdullah, noticed strangers approaching on foot across the rocky, inhospitable terrain of central Yemen. According to accounts by locals, this was the way the battle began with U.S. special operations forces and some of their allies, which would unfold over several hours on the ground – and end with an aerial bombardment.

Pentagon Says Civilians, Children Likely Killed In Raid On Al-Qaeda In Yemen

The Pentagon on February 1 said that civilians, including children, likely were killed during a dawn raid on an Al-Qaeda militant group in southern Yemen earlier this week. “A team designated by the operational task force commander has concluded regrettably that civilian noncombatants were likely killed in the midst of a firefight during a raid in Yemen January 29. Casualties may include children,” the U.S. Central Command said.

UPDATE 1-Houthi-run authorities in Yemen capital condemn Trump ban

U.S. President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on Yemeni citizens travelling to the United States is “illegal and illegitimate,” authorities controlled by the Iran-allied Houthi group in Yemen’s capital said. The war-damaged and impoverished country in the south of the Arabian Peninsula is one of seven majority Muslim countries whose citizens face a 90-day ban on entering the United States.

Yemeni officials say US makes surprise raid

U.S. forces launched a raid in central Yemen on Sunday, security and tribal officials said, landing troops off of aircraft and killing three alleged senior al-Qaida leaders in a battle that was the third such U.S. ground engagement against the extremist group in Yemen. The surprise dawn attack in Bayda province killed Abdul-Raouf al-Dhahab, Sultan al-Dhahab, and Seif al-Nims, they said.

Trump’s Vainglorious Affront to the C.I.A.

The death of Robert Ames, who was America’s top intelligence officer for the Middle East, is commemorated among the hundred and seventeen stars on the white marble Memorial Wall at C.I.A. headquarters, in Langley, Virginia. He served long years in the region’s hellholes-Beirut; Tehran; Sanaa, Yemen; Kuwait City; and Cairo-often in the midst of war or turmoil.

7 Qaeda members killed in Yemen drone strikes

Seven suspected Al-Qaeda members have been killed in drone strikes in central Yemen that were probably carried out by US forces, security sources said on Sunday. A security official, asking not to be identified, said three “armed fighters of Al-Qaeda” died when their vehicle was struck on Saturday in the Sawmaa region of Al-Bayda province.

Suspected US drone strike kills 3 alleged al-Qaida in Yemen

Suspected U.S. drone strikes have killed three alleged al-Qaida operatives in Yemen’s southwestern Bayda province, security and tribal officials said, the first such killings reported in the country since Donald Trump assumed the U.S. presidency Friday. The two Saturday strikes killed Abu Anis al-Abi , an area field commander, and two others, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information to journalists.

$2B in Aid Sought for Most Vulnerable in Yemen Civil War

About $2 billion in urgent aid is needed this year to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable victims of Yemen’s civil war, or about 10 million of the country’s 27 million people, the resident U.N. humanitarian chief said Tuesday. The Arab world’s poorest country has been in the grip of a civil war since 2014, when Shi’ite Houthi rebels and allied forces swept down from the north and captured the capital, Sanaa.

Yemen officials say Houthi rocket kills 6 civilians

Yemeni security officials say a rocket fired by Houthi rebels has killed six civilians, including women and children, when it hit an area in southern Taiz province. They say the Tuesday strike that also destroyed three old houses was part of broader fighting around the central city, Yemen’s cultural capital.

Dozens killed as fighting rages at Yemen’s Red Sea strait

Heavy fighting continued to rage Wednesday near the strategic Red Sea strait of Bab al-Mandab in western Yemen, leaving dozens dead and wounded, security officials said. Since Monday, fighters aligned with Yemen’s internationally recognized President Abed Rabu Mansour Hadi have been making advances and seizing more territory from Yemen’s Houthi rebels, the officials said.

Aussie football coach in ransom video

AN Australian man abducted in Yemen has appeared in a new ransom video asking his government to meet the demands of his unidentified kidnappers. The video of the man, identified as Craig McAllister, shows him giving a statement with the barrel of a gun held against his head, a US-based monitor said yesterday.

How the Yemen War Went from Regional Conflict to Humanitarian Crisis

Yemeni pro-government forces patrol during an offensive against Shiite rebels in Yemen’s western Dhubab district, about 30 kms north of the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, on January 9, 2017. What began in 2011 as a popular uprising has now become a catastrophe, with 10,000 dead and a famine looming At the tip of the Arabian peninsula, Yemen’s disastrous war has been raging for nearly two years.

Yemen: EU-UN partnership to target ‘alarming’ food insecurity

New York, Jan 10 : With 14 million people in Yemen lacking reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, the European Union has committed 12 million euros to assist the efforts of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization to tackle rising hunger in the strife-torn Gulf of Aden country. [NK Middle East] This is one of the worlds worst humanitarian crises.

Yemen’s children starve as war drags on

In this December 12, 2016 photo, provided by UNICEF, five-year-old Mohannad Ali lies on a hospital bed in Abs, Yemen. As the first light of dawn trickles in through the hospital window, 19-year-old Mohammed Ali learns that his two-year-old cousin has died of hunger, but he has to remain strong for his little brother Mohannad, who could be next.

Rebel fire from Yemen kills Saudi soldier

Cross-border rebel fire from Yemen has killed a soldier in Saudi Arabia, which is leading a coalition fighting the insurgents in its war-torn neighbour, the interior ministry said. The soldier was killed on Saturday in the southern border area of Jazan as an army post came under a barrage of gunfire and shelling from the Huthi rebels in northern Yemen, state news agency SPA quoted a ministry spokesman as saying.

Arab, EU FMs Urge Intra-Syria Talks, Condemn Aleppo Attacks

Arab and European foreign ministers urged on Tuesday intra-Syria talks as basis for political settlement and strongly condemned Syrian regime’s recent attacks on Aleppo, the Arab League and the European Union stated following their fourth ministerial meeting in Cairo, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. “The ministers stressed that intra-Syria talks are the only way for a credible and genuine political transition based on power sharing as well as lasting peace,” the two bodies said in a declaration issued after the meeting held at the AL headquarters in the Egyptian capital city.

A suicide bomber killed at least 30 soldiers in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday.-AFP

Aden: A suicide bomber killed at least 49 soldiers gathered to receive their monthly pay in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden on Sunday, officials said, as IS claimed responsibility for the attack. Officials said at least 60 other troops were wounded in the attack, which occurred near Al Sawlaban military base in Aden’s Khor Maksar district, where another IS suicide bomber blew himself up a week ago killing 50 soldiers.

Bombing kills at least 30 outside Yemen military camp

A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military camp in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday morning, killing at least 30 soldiers, Yemeni officials said. The officials told The Associated Press that preliminary investigations showed the blast was the work of a bomber wearing an explosive vest.