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SANA’A – Campaigners and international civil society have reacted angrily to the removal of the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen from a list of groups violating children’s rights, in a report by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The Saudis and their partners in crime should remain blacklisted for the violation of killing and maiming of thousands […]
SANA’A – A member of Yemen’s Supreme Political Council censured the United Nations over its decision to remove the Saudi-led coalition from a blacklist for killing and injuring children in the conflict-plagued Arab country, saying the crime that cannot be effaced from its record. “Delisting Saudi Arabia from the annual UN report confirms the chaos […]
RIYADH – Saudi Arabia is continuing to import weapons from Western countries, especially the United States, despite austerity measures taken recently to handle the kingdom’s worst financial crisis in decades. Saudi Arabia posted a $9 billion budget deficit in the first quarter of 2020 due to plummeting oil prices and the coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown. Riyadh […]
RIYADH/SANA’A – Fighter jets of the Saudi-led military coalition waging war on Yemen carried out at least 47 airstrikes on different parts of the country, further destroying the impoverished country’s infrastructure. Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah TV cited an unnamed Yemeni military source as saying on Wednesday that the Saudi-led fighter jets had pounded localities in Yemen’s […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has found evidence linking Al-Qaeda to the 2019 shooting at a US naval base in Florida that left three people killed, United States Attorney General William Barr said in a statement. In December 2019, a Saudi trainee pilot opened fire at US Naval Air Station Pensacola, […]
SANA’A – Yemen asked the international community to try and pressure the Saudi Arabia-led coalition, which has been attacking the impoverished country since 2015, into letting in medical supplies that are urgently required for the most basic healthcare to work in the country. “We ask this of nations to pressure the Saudi coalition into relieving […]
RIYADH/SANA’A – The invading Saudi-led coalition continues to launch indiscriminate airstrikes on various areas across Yemen. Yemeni sources said Saudi warplanes targeted towns and districts in Yemen’s north, northwest, center, and west on Wednesday, PressTV reported. The towns of al-Khob and al-Sha’ab in northern al-Jawf Province, the Shada’a district of northwestern Sa’ada Province, and Qanieh […]
WASHINGTON, D.C/RIYADH – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has “accidentally” disclosed the name of a Saudi diplomat suspected of allegedly aiding two Al-Qaeda hijackers in the controversial September 11, 2001, attacks in New York, Yahoo News reported on Tuesday. The mistake was made in a declaration by an FBI official in response to a […]
RIYADH – Saudi Arabia is set to suspend the cost-of-living allowance for state employees and increase value-added tax (VAT), amid a slump in oil prices and the coronavirus crisis. “The cost of living allowance will be suspended as of June 1, and the value-added tax will be increased to 15 percent from 5 percent as […]
BAGHDAD – The Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) has launched several attacks across Iraq as the Kata’ib Hezbollah resistance group warned of a Saudi-US plan to revive the terrorist group. The Arabic Al-Mayadeen news network reported on Sunday that Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units’ 21st Brigade thwarted an ISIS assault on the al-Eith region of the eastern […]