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US Patriot missiles may have failed in Saudi Arabia

Washington - Arab Today

When Shiite rebels blasted a ballistic missile from Yemen toward the Saudi capital last month, Riyadh officials said they had intercepted and destroyed the incoming rocket. But in an analysis published Monday by the New York Times, an arms expert and a research team examined photo and video evidence and found that Saudi Arabia may actually have missed the missileRead more

Yemen rebels claim ex-president Saleh killed

Sanaa - Arab Today

Yemen's Huthi rebels claimed Monday that ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh had been killed as fighting shook the capital Sanaa following the collapse of his alliance with the insurgents. The claim, which could not be independently confirmed, came as Yemen's long and devastating civil war took a potentially decisive turn. Heavy clashes were reported in the city between forces loyal toRead more

Clashes intensifies between Houthi and Saleh’s forces

Aden - Abdel Ghani Yahia

A long-simmering power struggle between Yemen's Shiite rebels and a former president has burst into the open, threatening to undermine their alliance against the internationally-recognized government and its Saudi-led backers. Armed men suspected of links to the rebels on Sunday tore up poster portraits of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and his son and one-time heir Ahmed in Sanaa, Yemen'sRead more

Cholera kills 11 in war-ravaged Yemen

Aden - Arab Today

The death toll of a cholera outbreak in war-torn and impoverished Yemen has reached 11, out of 180 confirmed cases, a UN-led action group said Wednesday. Suspected cases reached 15,658 as of January 11, it said in a joint report by a health ministry task force, the World Health Organisation, UN children's fund UNICEF and UN Office for the CoordinationRead more

KSA seeks UN sanctions on Iran for arming Houthis

United Nations - Arab Today

Saudi Arabia accused Iran of supplying weapons to Shiite rebels in Yemen and urged the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Tehran for violating an arms embargo. Saudi Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi said in a letter to the council obtained late Saturday by The Associated Press that the smuggling of arms to Houthi rebels violates council resolutions and constitutes “aRead more

Yemen rebels retake ground from government forces

Sanaa - Arab Today

The country’s Shiite rebels have retaken ground from forces loyal to the internationally recognized government in two central provinces, with at least 85 fighters killed on both sides over the past three days, Yemeni officials said Thursday. The fighting has been taking place in Marib and Shabwa provinces, the officials said, adding that in Shabwa’s region of Bihan, along withRead more