Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Humanitarian agencies working in Yemen slammed the Houthi rebel group for using children in the armed conflict in the Saada province as Saudi Arabia's air force continued to bomb several rebel hideouts on its border with Yemen, press reports said on Monday. Representatives of the UNICEF and Islamic Relief Worldwide held a press conference in which [...]
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/08/200981294214604934.html Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have taken control of more territory on the country's border with Saudi Arabia, adding to Riyadh's worries.The claim comes after the Saudis said they had regained control of the area seized by the rebels last week.Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Sanaa, the Yemeni capital. Saudi...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
by Stephen Brown While the fighting in Afghanistan continues to dominate news coverage, one Middle Eastern country has emerged as a leading flashpoint of Islamic terrorism. Yemen, most recently in the headlines as the home of Anwar al Awlaki , the exiled imam who fled to the country after inspiring Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hasan, has become a haven for al-Qaeda even as its internal turmoil has...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The United Nations Committee against Torture has called on Yemen to end the widespread torture of detainees and human rights violations in northern Saada province.2009/11/21
Dave's World (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I was Political Officer in Jidda in the late '70s in the US Embassy and was accustomed to receiving long missives from the US Amb to Yemen, Tom Scotes, who would dash off three half-dozen page analyses of the Yemeni political situation [which I also covered from a Pol/Mil slant] every week, or so it seemed. Finally, Amb Tom Pickering from Jordan arrived in Jidda with three black Chevy Suburbans armed...
KURDISH BLOG (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Iran has sent warships to the Gulf of Aden, ostensibly to combat Somali pirates preying on major shipping lanes. But the deployment, announced Saturday in Tehran, could bring closer the prospect of a confrontation with Saudi Arabia, its regional rival, amid rising tension in the Gulf and Red Sea regions, both vital oil arteries. The Iranian move coincides with a Saudi naval blockade in the Red Sea...
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The Yemeni army succeeded in aborting an attack on the northern governorate of Saada, killing and injuring dozens of insurgents, according to media reports Thursday. As the conflict escalated between Houthi rebels on one hand and the Saudi and Yemeni armies on the other, the insurgent group launched a massive attack on the northern and southern [...]
The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A bitter local conflict threatens to spread across the region MUHAMMAD REDWAN and his family were being hammered from all sides. In early August, rebels from Yemen’s Houthi clan took over his village in the rugged mountains of the Malahid district, near the border with Saudi Arabia. First they harassed him, telling him not to listen on his television to music that “contradicted the values...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Three Houthi rebel leaders have been killed in northern Yemeni regions bordering Saudi Arabia during fierce clashes Wednesday, the army spokesman Askar Ahmed Zaiel said. "The army killed three top rebel leaders -- Abu Haidar, Abas Aithah and Yusuf Madani -- when they launched sudden small-scale attacks on the state-owned Republican Palace in Saada province at midday," Zaiel told Xinhua by...
Top 10 Bollywood (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Top Punjabi Songs of the Week: 13 November - 19 November, 2009 See the current Top 10 Punjabi Songs of this week Check out Previous Weeks Punjabi Song Rankings 2009 Rank Song Name Album Title Artist Music-Label Last Week Status Weeks On #1 Panga The Next Level Diljit feat Honey Singh T-Series #1 ↔ 4 #2 Ek Tu Hi Gawah Saada Heer Ranjha Harbhajan Mann, Minu Sharma
UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Hijja, Yemen - A team from the UAE Red Crescent Authority continued to provide humanitarian aid to the displaced people at Al Marzouq1 camp in Yemen, following the events in Saada. The team members distributed 800 food parcels to the displaced peopl
Yahyasheikho786's Blog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The war in Saada is perhaps the most misunderstood conflict in the world. And the reason is the very complex tribal, religious and political make up of Yemen. For centuries, Yemen had been shattered into a mosaic of kingdoms or sultanates – a Shia Zaidi Imamate in the north and Sunni Sultanates in the south. That [...]
Global Security (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Yemen says it has recaptured ground from the Houthi rebels in the northern Saada province, while Saudi Arabia says its paratroopers are conducting mop-up operations along the border.
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
An agreement was signed between the American and Yemen armies which officially made America a part of the war in the Saada province.2009/11/15
People Daily (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Up to six Yemeni Shiite rebel positions inside the Yemeni soil were hit during five Saudi air raids on Saturday, the rebels said in a press release. The Saudi jet fighters have thrown 145 missiles up till now, targeting areas in al-Malahidh, Shada, Hasama and Haidan districts, in addition to Mount Himar and Ghafrah regions in the Yemeni northern province of Saada, said the press release posted on the...
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