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The Middle East Media Research Institute Locally Made Cruise Missiles, Ballistic Missiles, Drones Unveiled At Houthi Military Exhibition, Sign Reads: 'Death To America, Death To Israel, May The Jews Be Cursed' On July 7, 2019, Al-Masira TV (Yemen) aired a report about the opening of a Houthi military exhibition in Yemen that showcases locally-made ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, spy drones, and attack drones. The opening of the exhibition, which was named after Saleh Al-Samad, a Houthi official killed in a Saudi airstrike in 2018, was attended by Field Marshal Mahdi Al-Mashat, who is the president of the supreme political council...

Awful': US Urges Transparent Probe Into Saudi Bombing in Yemen - / Khaled Abdullah A US State Department spokesperson Robert Palladino called on Thursday the bombing earlier this week of a Save the Children hospital in Yemen "awful" and urged the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen to conduct an investigation, Reuters reported. "I saw those reports, they're awful. The United States takes them seriously and we're seeking more information […] We understand that the Saudi-led coalition has referred the results of this targeting operation to the joint incidents assessment team for their review and their investigation", Palladino told a media...

Thursday, from Al Jazeera: “Yemen ‘on Brink of New Cholera Epidemic,’ Charity Warns.” The piece details how recent developments in the Yemeni civil war — specifically, the possible siege of the port city of Hodeidah — may cause a surge in cholera cases. There were over a million reported cases of cholera between the fall of 2016 and spring of 2018, the largest documented outbreak in modern times. The rate of infection had slowed, but observers now fear resurgence. Since the conflict began, medical services have been devastated across the war-torn country, and children in particular have been affected, with...

Back when the Great Penis Hunt of 1998 was going on, Osama bin Laden was blowing up embassies and laying plans for bigger things down the road. In the summer of 2001, when we were obsessing over yet another wandering dick, that one attached to Congressman Gary Condit, those plans were very close to fruition. ......... One of those places is Yemen, where a brutal war has been waged by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against Houthi rebels for going on four years now. It is often described as a civil war, which is how it began, but...

Iran has been smuggling suicidal drones, similar to models developed by Israel, to Houthi rebels in Yemen. The drones are outfitted for attacks on UAE and Saudi Patriot missile batteries. The news comes via examination of seven Qasef-1 drones that were interdicted or captured in Yemen. Iran runs a fairly elaborate smuggling operation that furnishes weapons and other material to Houthi rebels in western Yemen. According to a report by Conflict Armament Research, six of the drones were captured last October along a known smuggling route that runs through Oman. Another was recovered following a February attack by Houthi...

The US military has launched strikes on radar sites in Yemen, the Pentagon announced, according to Reuters. The move comes in response to failed attacks on the US navy destroyer USS Mason. According to the Pentagon’s initial assessments, three “radar sites” in the Houthi rebel-controlled area of Yemen were destroyed in the attack. The US military vowed to respond to “any further threat to our ships and commercial traffic,” according to a statement cited by Reuters.

A U.S. Navy destroyer was targeted on Wednesday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, the second such incident in the past four days, U.S. officials told Reuters. The USS Mason, which was accompanied by the USS Ponce - an amphibious transport dock - fired defensive salvos in response to the missiles, neither of which hit the ship or caused any damage as it operated north of the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Most of Al Qaeda’s most significant, known terror plots directed at the U.S. homeland in the last several years — including the 2009 Christmas Day Bomb Plot or the 2010 Printer Cartridge Bomb Plot — originated in Yemen, where, since President Obama took office in 2009, the U.S. has ramped up a campaign of air, missile and drone strikes against the organization’s regional affiliate, known as Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). “AQAP continues to be Al Qaeda’s most active affiliate, and it continues to seek the opportunity to strike our homeland,” CIA Director John Brennan said in an April...

The terror threat prompting the U.S. government to close nearly two dozen embassies and consulates Sunday is the most specific, credible threat information in years, CBS News senior correspondent John Miller reports. Intelligence officers have reporting from a reliable source that a major plot is under way and that the team to carry it out has been selected and is in place, Miller reports. The threat information has been described as the most specific and credible since the foiled plot to blow up British planes en route to the United States in 2006, Miller reports. The specificity ends there. What...

<p>Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama spent his birthday weekend away from the White House but was briefed about the terror threat that prompted embassy closings and heightened military readiness across the Middle East and North Africa.</p> <p>On Sunday morning, he remained at the Camp David presidential retreat just outside Washington, where he had flown Saturday afternoon after golfing with close friends earlier in the day. Obama turned 52 Sunday.</p>

Four men shot dead their sister and her husband for bringing “shame” to the family. A Yemeni woman, in her twenties, paid a heavy price for eloping from her family’s house and marrying her beloved. Police in the southern port city of Aden said on Tuesday that four men shot dead their sister and her husband, 30, to erase shame brought to their family when she ran away from home with the man.

It will likely be months before production disrupted by a damaged pipeline in Yemen can resume, says the chief executive of TransGlobe Energy Corp. The 120,000-barrel-a-day pipeline has been closed since being attacked by militants in the troubled Middle Eastern country in March. TransGlobe had about 2,400 bpd on the line from its working interest in a field operated by partner Occidental Petroleum. "We've modelled six months shut in for our operations," Ross Clarkson told reporters at the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers investor symposium in Calgary on Wednesday. "The government is the one that has to go in and...

4 June 2011 Last updated at 09:43 ET Share this pageEmailPrint 571 Yemen officials deny president has left country The extent of President Saleh's injuries is unclear Yemeni officials have denied President Ali Abdullah Saleh has left the country, a day after he was injured in an attack on his compound in Sanaa. Unconfirmed reports earlier said that Mr Saleh had flown to Saudi Arabia. Mr Saleh had some shrapnel near his heart and second-degree burns on his chest and face, sources told the BBC. The president aired an audio message on Friday saying he was well. But he has...

Yemeni Troops Clash with Tribesman Pushing Towards Capital VOA News June 02, 2011 Yemeni security forces have clashed with thousands of opposition fighters preparing to enter the capital, Sana'a, to reinforce fellow tribesmen loyal to Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar. The rising chaos is pushing the conflict closer to an all-out civil war. Witnesses said Thursday that government troops, including elite Republican Guard units, confronted the tribal fighters at a key checkpoint north of the capital. Sana'a is split, with Yemeni security forces holding the southern part of the city against tribesmen and renegade military units in the north. Dozens of people...

Yemen Crisis Worsens as Tribal Fighters Battle Presidential Loyalists Elizabeth Arrott | Cairo June 01, 2011 Large explosions rocked Yemen's capital Sana'a on Wednesday as members of the nation's most powerful tribal federation kept up their fight to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh. At least 41 people are reported killed and dozens of others wounded in the past day. As the situation worsens, some are looking beyond the current crisis to envision a post-Saleh Yemen. Government and tribal fighters are battling for control of key ministry buildings in the capital, while the home of Hashid tribal chief Sheikh Sadeq al-Ahmar...

Yemen Fighting Escalates Further VOA News June 03, 2011 Fire and smokes erupt during clashes between tribesmen loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, and Yemeni security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, late Thursday, June 2, 2011 Reports say the fighting in Sana'a is expanding into new neighborhoods of the city, and tribesmen loyal to the opposition are traveling to the capital city to take part in the fighting. The rising chaos is pushing the conflict closer to an all-out civil war. Opposition groups say government troops have killed 50 opposition members in fighting this week....

Yemen: President in Sana'a, Others Wounded Treated in Saudi Arabia Elizabeth Arrott | Cairo June 04, 2011 Yemen's state media say that several officials wounded in Friday's attack on the presidential compound are being treated in Saudi Arabia, but officials denied a report that President Ali Abdullah Saleh is among them. Yemeni officials said President Saleh is in a military hospital in Yemen receiving treatment for what they said were minor injuries suffered in the attack. Saleh has not been seen in public since then, but gave an audio address late Friday saying he was well. Deputy Information Minister Abdu...

A division of the Yemeni army has announced its resolve to protect protesters who have been calling for the resignation of the country''s president, signalling its split from the government of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Brigadier Ali Mohsen Saleh, the head of the north western military zone and the head of the first armoured division, said on Monday that he had deployed army units to protect the protesters. The announcement came days after dozens died when armed men fired at an anti-government protest in the capital Sanaa. Several ministers resigned from the government after Friday''s violence. Abdullah Alsaidi, Yemen''s ambassador to...

SANA, Yemen — Yemen’s president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, maintained a tenuous hold on power on Tuesday, blaming the United States and Israel for protests across the Arab world, while a prominent radical cleric joined the growing crowds demanding his ouster and called for an Islamic state. American officials expressed concern about the statement of the cleric, Abdul Majid al-Zindani, a one-time mentor of Osama bin Laden, which introduced a new Islamist element to the turmoil in a country where Al Qaeda is viewed as a grave threat. The protests that toppled leaders in Tunisia and Egypt and that now have...

Protesters killed in Yemen clashes Police shoot dead two in Yemen's main southern city of Aden, while clashes erupt for the sixth straight day in Sanaa. Last Modified: 16 Feb 2011 20:51 GMT Police was separating government supporters from anti-government protesters at Sanaa university [EPA] Police shot and killed two protester in Yemen's main southern city of Aden, medics said, while unrest in the capital Sanaa against the rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh, the president, continued for a sixth straight day. Mohammed Ali Alwani, 21, was shot dead after clashes broke out between police and demonstrators, his father said. The...