Tag: yemen
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The Well of Barhout: The “Well of Hell” and the Mystery Beneath the Arabian Desert
The centuries-old stories of jinn, evil spirits, strange smells, and mysterious deaths — and what the Omani explorers finally discovered at the bottom. By Major (R) Haroon Rasheed. He is a retired Pakistan Army officer and a Defense & Strategic Analyst with a particular interest in military affairs, strategic studies, geopolitics, security issues and the…
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Terrorism and Genocide against Muslims, Christians or Jews?
Most of the times Genocide is misinterpreted by aggressor as self defence but as defined by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Genocide is an internationally recognized crime where acts are committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. We should take it as authentic…
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Libya and the Glorious Past
How Libya descended into chaos is incredibly too hard to digest. Till the year 2010… Libya was a booming country. A premium lifestyle that Qaddafi’s government offered to its citizens. One of the top few countries which was rolling in riches… the interminable supply of fuel made life of a common man much easier. Unlike…
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Middle East on fire
Iran’s president has accused Israel of trying to escalate tensions in the Middle East by pushing Iran to intervene in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, a group supported by Tehran. He warned that this could lead to dire and irreversible outcomes. In response to rising tensions, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…
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Saudi Arabia expresses concern over airstrikes, urges restraint
On Friday, the Saudi Arabian authorities expressed “great concern” over airstrikes in Yemen and the Red Sea as tensions escalate in the region. In a statement issued shortly after the US and the UK announced they had struck nearly a dozen targets used by the Houthis in Yemen, the Saudi Press Agency said: “While the…
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UN continue efforts to remove Crude Oil from tanker in Red Sea
United Nations (UN) steps up efforts to remove crude oil from a decaying supertanker carrying approximately a million barrels, off the coast of Yemen. The UN mission is focused on averting what could possibly be the world’s worst ecological disaster in decades, according to CNN. The supertanker which has been moored five miles off the…
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels launch attacks on Aramco facility: Saudi-led coalition
The Saudi-led coalition says the barrage of drone and missile attacks by the Yemeni rebel group did not cause any casualties
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Saudi, Emirati leaders decline Calls with Biden during Ukraine crisis
The White House tried unsuccessfully to talk to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Both leaders refrained from speaking to Biden.
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Saudi-led coalition destroys Houthi drone launched towards Jizan airport
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Monday its forces had destroyed a drone launched towards King Abdullah airport in the southern Saudi Arabian city of Jizan
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US ‘strongly condemns’ drone attack on Saudi airport
President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, said the “United States strongly condemns today’s terrorist attack.”