Tag: #Huthi
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Saudi-led coalition jets pound Yemen capital after Huthi strikes
Riyadh, March 7 (AFP/APP):A Saudi-led military coalition mounted air strikes on Yemen’s Huthi-controlled capital Sanaa on Sunday after intercepting a flurry of drones and missiles launched by the rebels, state media reported. The exchange marked a new escalation in Yemen’s six-year conflict between the coalition-backed Yemeni government and the Huthi insurgents, despite a renewed US…
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Saudi-led coalition intercepts 10 Huthi drones: state media
Riyadh, March 7 (AFP/APP):A Saudi-led military coalition intercepted 10 drones launched by Yemen’s Huthi rebels on Sunday, state media reported, in a sharp escalation in cross-border attacks on the kingdom. The coalition said the drones were aimed at “civilian” targets in Saudi Arabia, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, without specifying the locations. The…
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More than 80 soldiers killed in Yemen missile, drone attack
Dubai, Jan 19 (AFP/APP): More than 80 Yemeni soldiers have been killed and scores injured in a missile and drone attack blamed on Huthi rebels in central Yemen, medical and military sources said Sunday. Saturday’s strike follows months of relative calm in the war between the Huthis and Yemen’s internationally recognised government. The Huthis attacked…
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Yemen’s Huthis seize two S. Korean, one Saudi vessel: Seoul
Seoul, Nov 19 (AFP/APP): Two out of three vessels seized by Yemen’s Huthi rebels on the weekend are South Korean, Seoul officials said Tuesday, as are two out of 16 people captured. The vessels, a South Korean dredger being towed by one South Korean and one Saudi-flagged tug, were seized by the Huthis at the…
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Yemen government, southern separatists sign power-sharing deal
Riyadh, Nov 6 (AFP/APP): Yemen’s internationally recognised government signed a power-sharing deal with southern separatists Tuesday, to end a conflict simmering within the country’s civil war. Unrest in the south, which saw secessionist forces seize control of Yemen’s interim capital Aden, distracted the coalition from its battle against rebels and raised fears the country could…
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UAE hands Saudi positions in south Yemen
Dubai, Oct 14 (AFP/APP): The UAE Monday handed over to Saudi forces key positions in Yemen’s southern city of Aden in a bid to defuse tensions between separatists and the government, a security official said. The United Arab Emirates has trained and supported forces of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC), which seeks an independent…
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Saudi, UAE talk military cooperation after Yemen rebel truce offer
Abu Dhabi, Oct 7 (AFP/APP):Top officials from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, key players in a coalition fighting Yemeni rebels, have discussed military cooperation following a positive response by Riyadh to a truce offer from the insurgents. Saudi’s deputy defence minister Prince Khalid bin Salman met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed…
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Suspected drones disrupt Dubai flights
Dubai, Sept 22 (AFP/APP):Flights at Dubai’s international airport, one of the world’s busiest, were briefly disrupted Sunday due to “suspected drone activity,” officials said. Two arriving flights had to be diverted, it said, while media reports said the planes had landed at a smaller airport in the neighbouring emirate of Sharjah. “Dubai Airports can confirm…