South Sudan declares famine in Unity State
Source: BBC A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced in any part of the world in six years. The government and the […]
Yemen: a place of hunger and misery
Published on 4 January 2017 in Report Yasser Rayes (author) Mohanned, 5 years old, lies on a bed in the Abs hospital in Hajjah, a governorate in Yemen which has some of the highest numbers of severely and acutely malnourished children. (Photo © UNICEF/Fuad) Hunger is the most dominant thought […]
Yemen Withdraws Permissions for U.S. Ground Operations
Source: The Daily Beast Yemen will no longer allow U.S. ground troops into the country on Special Operations counterterrorism missions, the New York Times reports. The decision is reportedly in response to a Jan. 29 raid by U.S. troops in Yemen, during which multiple Yemeni civilians were killed. It is unclear […]
134 Million Banned From USA, Is it Islamophobia or Simply ‘Divide and Rule?’
The Muslim Times has the best collection to tackle Islamophobia Trump’s latest executive order: Banning people from 7 countries and more By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Washington (CNN) With just a […]
General Raheel Sharif should reconsider commanding the ‘Islamic military alliance’
this would not only be a very risky undertaking militarily but a fiasco in the political sense for Pakistan at least January 09, 2017, 2:06 am Syed Fazl-e-Ali Naqvi The media is agog with the news of General Raheel Sharif’s likely appointment as the Commander of the 39 nation Islamic […]
An unexpected result of Yemen’s war: More men are cooking and cleaning
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan GUBAIYA, Yemen — The women in this village never earned money, never left home without the permission of their husbands. It had been […]
UN plan for Yemen
Dec 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has rejected yet again the latest peace proposal presented by the UN special envoy to end the war with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, arguing that accepting it will lead to a “dangerous precedent” that legitimises armed uprisings against […]
In Yemen’s war, trapped families ask: Which child should we save?
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan The family of Osama Hassan faced a wrenching choice as his tiny body wasted away. Should they use the little money they had, in a time of war, to take the 2-year-old to a hospital? Or should they buy food to feed their […]
Red Cross Warns of ‘Desperate’ Situation in Yemen’s Taiz
Source: ABC News An international aid group has warned of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen’s western city of Taiz, saying that corpses litter the streets and civilians are trapped. “Sniper fire and indiscriminate shelling has trapped civilians. Dead bodies are in the streets and people are unable to attend […]
Saudi Arabia ‘deliberately targeting impoverished Yemen’s farms and agricultural industry’
Increasing evidence suggests Kingdom is not merely bombing civilians in neighbouring country, but systematically targeting infrastructure survivors will need to avoid starvation when the war is over Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices Fire and smoke rise after a Saudi-led airstrike on a site near Sana’a AP The Yemen war uniquely combines tragedy, hypocrisy and […]
If Russia can’t be trusted in Syria, why does Boris Johnson think Saudi Arabia can police itself in Yemen?
Last Saturday saw devastating air strikes on a funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, which killed at least 155 people and wounded 500 more. Johnson’s first public response was to issue a tweet ANDREW SMITH Medics and rescue workers carry a body on a stretcher at the site of reported airstrikes by […]
US Navy targeted again by Houthis; KSA urges UN to contain militias
HANI HAZAIMEH | ARAB NEWS STAFF | Published — Thursday 13 October 2016 A file image released by the US Navy shows a guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) conducting formation exercises with the Cyclone-class patrol crafts USS Tempest (PC 2) and USS Squall (PC 7) on September 10, 2016. […]
Air strike on funeral may galvanize anti-Saudi forces in Yemen
Middle East & North Africa Air strike on funeral may galvanize anti-Saudi forces in Yemen 7:45pm BST – 01:32 Anti-Saudi forces in Yemen appear to be galvanizing after an apparent Saudi-led air strike on a funeral kills 140 Yemenis, while Reuters discovers that U.S. officials warned the Obama administration the […]
Yemen: The ‘forgotten war’ cloaked in the shadow of Syria
By Hakim Almasmari and Angela Dewan, for CNN October 9, 2016 Tune into CNN International on Sunday at 4 p.m. CET for a full report on the Yemen war. Sanaa […]
82 Killed After Saudi-led Coalition Airstrike Hits Yemen Funeral
Source: Time By Ahmed Al-Haj / AP (SANAA, Yemen) — A senior health official in Yemen says an airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition that targeted a funeral hall packed with mourners […]
SAUDI ARABIA : ‘We were forced to intervene in Yemen’
ARAB NEWS | Published — Tuesday 4 October 2016 Brig. Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri. (SPA) RIYADH: The lack of intervention by Saudi Arabia and Arab coalition forces in Yemen would have turned the country into an Iranian missile base with dangers extending up to the southern border of the Kingdom. And […]
Yemen crisis: Who is fighting whom?
26 March 2015 From the sectionMiddle East Image copyrightAFP Yemen conflict No end in sight to war in Yemen Practising medicine under fire in Yemen A young girl and a city struggling for life Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe Yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years, as […]
One in three Saudi air raids on Yemen hit civilian sites, data shows
Exclusive: Pressure on UK and US roles in war set to increase as survey shows school buildings and hospitals among targets A boy walks through ruins of a school and bowling club hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in Sana’a. Photograph: Mohammed Huwais/AFP/Getty Images Ewen MacAskill and Paul Torpey Friday […]
Saudi Arabia cannot pay its workers or bills – yet continues to fund a war in Yemen
In Saudi Arabia itself, the government seems unable to cope with the crisis. The ‘Arab News’ says that 31,000 Saudi and other foreign workers have lodged complaints with the government’s labour […]
Islamic State attack on army recruits in Yemen kills 54
Source: The Washington Post By Ali al-Mujahed and Paul Schemm SANAA, Yemen — A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives Monday in a mustering area for army recruits […]