Tag: #HuthiRebels
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Saudi Forces destroy Yemeni Missiles
14th October: Saudi forces have destroyed Yemeni missiles. A statement issued by the Arab League for the Defense of the Constitutional Government in Yemen said that the armed forces bombed a Houthi base in Yemen and fired ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia. A statement issued by the Arab Coalition said that the Coalition was ready…
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Saudi intercepts missiles over curfew-locked Riyadh, border city
Riyadh, March 29 (AFP/APP): Saudi air defenses intercepted ballistic missiles over Riyadh and a city along the Yemen border late Saturday, leaving at least two civilians wounded in the curfew-locked capital amid efforts to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Multiple explosions shook Riyadh in the attack, which the Saudi-led military coalition blamed on Yemen’s Iran-aligned Huthi…
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More than 100 killed in Yemen missile, drone attack
Dubai, Jan 20 (AFP/APP): More than 100 people were killed and dozens wounded in a missile and drone attack blamed on Huthi rebels in central Yemen, officials said Sunday. Saturday’s strike follows months of relative calm in the war between Huthis and Yemen’s internationally recognised government. The Huthis attacked a mosque in a military camp…
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17 civilians killed in 3rd attack on Yemen market: UN
Sanaa, Dec 26 (AFP/APP): Seventeen civilians were killed in an attack in a market in Yemen’s northern Saada governorate, the United Nations said, the third deadly assault on the same location in just over a month. The attacks come despite relative calm in Yemen, where large-scale combat between government troops and Huthi rebels has largely…
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Red Cross to repatriate 128 Yemen rebels from Saudi Arabia
Sanaa, Nov 28 (AFP/APP): The Red Cross in Sanaa said on Thursday it would repatriate from Saudi Arabia 128 Yemeni rebels, two days after a Saudi-led military coalition announced it would release 200 prisoners. Saudi Arabia and its allies intervened in the Yemen war in March 2015 to back the internationally recognised government, shortly after…
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7 soldiers killed in missile attack in Yemen’s Marib
Abu Dhabi, Nov 13 (AFP/APP): Seven Yemeni soldiers were killed in a missile attack Wednesday in the central province of Marib held by the Saudi-led coalition, a medic and military official said. The strike on a Marib military base came after six people, among them four civilians, were killed in an attack last week on…