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WASHINGTON | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media Saturday that he has ordered the U.S. Military to launch “decisive and powerful military action” against the Houthi militia in Yemen. Accusing the group of waging an “unrelenting campaign of piracy, violence, and terrorism against American, and other, …

SANAA, Yemen | Xinhua | Yemen’s Houthi group said in a statement on Friday that they had launched multiple drone attacks targeting “Israeli targets.” “We carried out two military operations, the first of which targeted a military target in the occupied Ashkelon city, while the second targeted a target in the …

JERUSALEM, Israel | Xinhua | Israel’s military said Sunday that it intercepted a ballistic missile launched from Yemen before it entered Israeli airspace. The missile triggered sirens in several cities and communities across central Israel, the military said in a statement. Fragments from the missile or the interceptor fell in …

SANAA | Xinhua |  Warplanes of the U.S.-British coalition launched 15 airstrikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa and the northern city of Saada early Thursday, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported. The strikes targeted three sites in Sanaa, in the areas of Al-Jiraf, Hafa and Jarban, as well as two other sites …

SANAA, YEMEN | Xinhua | Thousands of supporters of the Yemeni Houthi rebel group held a rally in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Friday to protest the U.S.-Britain joint retaliatory airstrikes on the group’s camps. The protesters demanded a response to Friday’s pre-dawn airstrikes that heavily bombed over 60 training sites …

DUBAI | TASS | Iran condemned the strikes carried out by the United States and Great Britain on positions held by the Ansar Allah (Houthi) rebel movement in Yemen as a violation of Yemen’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani. The attacks carried out …

MOSCOW | TASS | Washington’s position on the Red Sea in the UN Security Council was only a pretext for escalation in the region, Russia condemns the US and UK strikes on facilities in Yemen, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a briefing. “We are concerned that the US …

Aden, Yemen | Xinhua | The International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Yemen said that it facilitated the return of 300 Ethiopian migrants from Yemen to their country this week. “This week, IOM helped 300 Ethiopian migrants embark on two Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) flights,” the UN migration agency said …

  West has been playing dumb over the refugee issues of Iraq, Syria and Yemen, as well as Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory, as if people in those places were inherently inferior and unworthy of respect Beijing, China | Xinhua | The sharp difference in Western media coverage of the Ukraine …

Aden, Yemen |  XINHUA |  Yemen’s government has announced reopening a main airport for domestic flights in the country’s southeastern province of Hadramout after being suspended for nearly six years. The Civil Aviation Authority of Yemen said in a brief press statement on Friday that it was pleased to fully …