Yemen war

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  • Yemen war 2023-03-14 21:52

    The end of Yemen war on horizon but pains will remain

    On Monday, the National Salvation government officials in Yemen announced the end of the war in the country, which may be one of the most important pieces of news of these days, but it was lost in the piles of news.

  • Yemen war 2023-01-03 22:38

    Yemeni patience with Saudis has a limit 

    TEHRAN- Saudi forces have been shelling border regions in Yemen, killing a number of civilians as Sana'a warns its patience is running thin.

  • Raisi 2022-06-26 22:08

    Raisi says Iran fully backs peace and lifting siege on Yemen

    TEHRAN- Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi underlined on Saturday that the Islamic Republic fully backs an establishment of peace in Yemen and easing the oppressive economic embargoes on the impoverished nation.

  • Yemen 2022-03-09 21:13

    Deafening silence for Yemen, loud outcry for Ukraine

    TEHRAN — As the Yemen war is raging unabatedly, the international community maintains its deafening silence on the atrocities led by the Saudis in Yemen.

  • Yemen War 2022-01-29 21:32

    Fighting subsides in Yemen as UAE-backed forces retreat

    TEHRAN – Yemeni forces trained and backed by the United Arab Emirates have announced the end of their military operations after a month of severe fighting that resulted in the Sanaa-based forces targeting Abu Dhabi with missiles and drones. 

  • UN to cut food aid to Yemen due to lack of funds 2021-12-22 17:06

    UN to cut food aid to Yemen due to lack of funds

    TEHRAN - The World Food Programme has said it has been “forced” to cut aid to Yemen due to a lack of funds and warned there will be a surge in hunger in the war-torn country in the coming months.

  • Yemen’s revolution leader on surrender and martyrdom  2021-12-19 21:26

    Yemen’s revolution leader on surrender and martyrdom 

    TEHRAN - The leader of the popular Revolution in Yemen says the events developing in the country today are a testimony that “achieving the goals of the aggression has become impossible.”

  • Saudi warplanes launch massive airstrikes across Yemen 2021-12-06 21:42

    Saudi warplanes launch massive airstrikes across Yemen

    TEHRAN - Saudi Arabia has upped the ante in the war on Yemen by conducting a new round of airstrikes targeting various areas across the crisis-hit country, as Riyadh and its regional allies forge ahead with their devastating war and brutal siege against the Yemeni people.

  • Rights groups demand Yemen war probe 2021-12-03 17:24

    Rights groups demand Yemen war probe

    THERAN - Sixty human rights organizations are demanding that the United Nations General Assembly establish a fresh committee comprising of independent experts to seriously probe potential war crimes committed during the war on Yemen. The rights groups are calling for a body to "investigate and publicly report on the most serious violations and abuses of international law committed.” They also want the evidence to be preserved for possible prosecution of the perpetrators of any crimes in the future.

  • UN warns of catastrophic Yemen death toll 2021-11-24 18:12

    UN warns of catastrophic Yemen death toll

    TEHRAN - The United Nations has warned that should the war on Yemen continue until the end of 2021, the death toll from the conflict will reach 377,000 lives with 154,000 as a result of direct combat and violence and 223,000 – or nearly 60 per cent – indirectly caused by the conflict. The report says of the total deaths, 259,000 – nearly 70 per cent of total conflict-attributable deaths – are children younger than five years old.

  • Mehran Kamrava 2021-11-13 16:32

    By Mohammad Mazhari

    Saudis have realized they need modus vivendi with Iran: professor

    ‘Saudis no longer seeing Persian Gulf security as a zero-sum game’

    TEHRAN - A professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar says that the Saudis have found out that they need to work with Iran within a modus vivendi.

  • Yemeni forces, allies make major progress in southern Ma’rib 2021-11-12 17:46

    Yemeni forces, allies make major progress in southern Ma’rib

    TEHRAN - Yemeni army forces, backed by allied fighters from Popular Committees, have made more significant gains in the country’s oil-producing central province of Ma’rib, seizing control over a strategic region south of the provincial capital.

  • Andrew Korybko 2021-11-12 17:46

    By Mohammad Mazhari

    Biden hasn’t done much to end war on Yemen: analyst

    TEHRAN - A geopolitical analyst says the Biden administration has failed to advance the policy of ending the war on Yemen.

  • Hossein Askari 2021-11-10 16:04

    By Mohammad Mazhari

    MBS does not have an honest bone in his body: GWU professor

    TEHRAN – A professor from the George Washington University says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is not honest when he talks about reforms.

  • Yemeni forces penetrate Saudi-backed militants’ last defense lines in Ma’rib 2021-11-08 18:17

    Yemeni forces penetrate Saudi-backed militants’ last defense lines in Ma’rib

    TEHRAN - The Yemeni army and allied fighters from popular committees have achieved a “key military breakthrough” in Ma’rib, penetrating “the last defense lines” of Saudi-backed militants in the northern part of the province.

  • Charles Ortel 2021-11-08 17:53

    By Mohammad Mazhari

    Saudi ties are deep with both established parties in U.S.: American writer

    TEHRAN – An American writer says that the U.S. with its two main parties (Democrats and Republicans) have deep ties with Saudi Arabia.

  • Rapid advances of Yemeni army forces in Ma’rib 2021-11-06 16:20

    Rapid advances of Yemeni army forces in Ma’rib

    TEHRAN - Yemeni forces and allied fighters from Popular Committees have captured a key military base occupied by Saudi militants loyal to former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi in the country's strategic oil-rich province of Ma’rib, and moved closer to the heart of energy reserves in the area.

  • Biden reneges on campaign pledge with Saudi arms sale 2021-11-05 21:02

    Biden reneges on campaign pledge with Saudi arms sale

    TEHRAN - This is what the U.S. candidate in the Presidential campaign race Joe Biden said if he reached the White House “I would make it very clear, we are not going to in fact sell more weapons to [Saudi Arabia] ... we are going to make them in fact the pariah that they are.”

  • Massoud Maalouf 2021-11-02 21:30

    By Mohammad Mazhari

    Lebanese believe Riyadh overreacted on Cordahi’s remarks: ex-diplomat

    TEHRAN - A former Lebanese ambassador to Chile, Poland, and Canada says most of Lebanese people think that Saudi Arabia overreacted when it decided to cut diplomatic ties with Lebanon due to remarks by George Cordahi, who has been appointed as information minister in the new government of Najib Mikati.

  • Yemen makes strategic gains against Saudis 2021-10-27 00:00

    Yemen makes strategic gains against Saudis

    TEHRAN - The spokesman for Yemen’s armed forces had provided details of a massive offensive carried out by the country’s armed forces dubbed operation Spring of Victory (Rabi Al Naser). Speaking at a live presentation of the latest military gains, Yahya Sare’e gave details of the retaliatory action against Saudi Arabia and the militants it backs in the Yemeni provinces of Ma’arib and Shabwah.

  • ‘Shameful milestone’ in Yemen as 10,000 children killed from violence 2021-10-20 18:33

    ‘Shameful milestone’ in Yemen as 10,000 children killed from violence

    TEHRAN - UNICEF spokesperson James Elder has just returned from Yemen and has more grim news about children living in what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Addressing a press briefing in Geneva, he says, “The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone: 10,000 children have been killed or maimed since Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign started in March 2015. That’s the equivalent of four children every day.”

  • Saudis “serious” in talks with Iran 2021-10-15 17:30

    Saudis “serious” in talks with Iran

    TEHRAN - Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has said the kingdom is “serious” about talks with Iran, signaling Riyadh’s desire to repair relations between the two sides following multiple offers by Iran to ease tensions with a number of initiatives that Tehran has publicly announced and presented the international arena.

  • Joost R. Hiltermann 2021-10-11 21:58

    By Mohammad Mazhari

    Double standards on human rights are the norm, not the exception: expert

    TEHRAN - MENA Program Director at the International Crisis Group says that double standard on human rights has turned to a norm and no longer is an exception as great states in the world sponsor futile wars, especially in Yemen.