Tag: Yemen
Saudi-led attack the Yemeni province of Saada, kills and injuring 10 people
YEMEN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The Saudi Arabian Air Force attacked the Yemeni province of Saada, killing and injuring 10 people. A military source told the Yemeni news agency Saba that the Saudi aggressor's fighters struck at the Kakhza, Zueb, Abyak and Al-Mlel provinces of...
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Yemen: 3 years of blockade
UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The Yemeni Ministry of Finance has announced that the government deficit over these 3 years of war exceeded two trillion Yemeni rials, or more than 6 trillion euros. The Yemeni Ministry of Finance today reported on a working group in...
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Iran accuses the US and UK of trying to divert attention from the situation in Yemen
IRAN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - In the Permanent Mission of Iran to the UN commented on the uncoordinated draft resolution on Yemen. In the document, the Iranian authorities were accused of illegally supplying weapons to the Husit rebels. The United States and Great Britain tried to...
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UN official warns that conditions in Yemen are “catastrophic”
YEMEN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The conditions of life in Yemen have become "catastrophic" in a three-year-old conflict as the threat of famine and cholera increases in a country experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, a UN official warned on Tuesday. "After three years...
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Russian veto: UN Security Council adopted its version of the resolution on Yemen
UNITED NATIONS (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The UN Security Council at the second attempt unanimously extended for a year the sanctions regime against Yemen. The resolution was proposed by the Russian delegation, reports RIA. Initially, the Security Council considered a draft prepared by the United Kingdom....
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Iran reacts to US accusations of the crisis in Yemen
IRAN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The United States and the United Kingdom are shifting the blame for what is happening in Yemen to Iran, the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations said. With such a comment, the mission came out...
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WHO: Yemen’s cholera epidemic is likely to intensify in the coming months
YEMEN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Yemen's cholera epidemic, which has killed more than 2,000 people, could erupt again in the rainy season, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday. "The number of cases of cholera has declined in Yemen in the last 20 months after...
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Saudi Arabia strikes its own mercenaries in Marib
YEMEN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Dozens of pro-Riyad mercenaries were killed in Saudi air raids in Yemen's Marib province. According to the Arya news agency, Saudi fighter jets have bombed areas in the two Yemeni provinces of Maarib and Jawf ten times. Meanwhile, Saudi media have acknowledged...
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UN Security Council adopted a resolution on the technical extension of sanctions against Yemen
UNITED STATES (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The UN Security Council extended the sanctions regime against Yemen, a resolution on the technical extension of sanctions was proposed by the Russian delegation. The document received 15 votes in support. Voting on the proposed by Russia project took place after...
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Russia blocked the UN Security Council draft resolution on Yemen
UNITED NATIONS (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Russia blocked a draft resolution on the Yemen in the UN Security Council, which fixes Iran's deliveries of weapons to Houthi rebels. The document proposed by Great Britain was put to a vote on Monday. The United Kingdom has prepared a...
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Russia vetoes UN draft resolution pressuring Iran over Yemen
UNITED NATIONS - (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Russia, on Monday vetoes the United Nations draft resolution pressuring Iran over Yemen. The document proposed by Great Britain was put to a vote on Monday. The United Kingdom has prepared a draft resolution that extends the sanctions regime...
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Yemen: Death toll of the terrorist attacks in Aden rose to 55 dead, wounded
YEMEN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - Hospital sources reported the increase in the number of victims of the terrorist attacks perpetrated on Saturday afternoon, February 24, in Aden, which rose to 55 dead and wounded. Elements of the Daesh terror group exploded two car bombs on Saturday...
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Saudi base hit by Yemeni missile
YEMEN (VOP TODAY NEWS) - The Yemeni army and People's Committees continue their operations against Saudi mercenaries on various fronts. According to the report, Yemeni forces targeted a Saudi mercenary gathering place in Jizan. A Qaher M2 type missile from the Yemeni forces fell on the positions...
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UN: Russia prepares draft resolution on Yemen
UNITED NATIONS (VOP TODAY NEWS) - In response to a draft resolution drafted by the United Kingdom to condemn Iran, accused of violating the arms embargo in Yemen, Russia presents to the Security Council another project that does nothing no reference to Iran. The Security Council,...
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Ansar Allah launches a ballistic missile on a camp of the Mahdi in Marib, northeast of Yemen
YEMEN, Sunday, February 25 (VOP) - A military source in the Yemeni army allied with Ansar Allah, that the missile force of "Ansar Allah" fired a ballistic missile of the type of 2M force on the coalition rally in the camp of Umm al-Rish in...
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At least 14 people killed in an attack on a camp for anti-terrorist forces in Yemen
YEMEN, Sunday, February 25 (VOP) - At least 14 people were killed and 40 wounded when two suicide car bombers and gunmen tried to storm the headquarters of the anti-terrorist unit in the southern port city of Aden on Saturday, security and medical sources said. The...
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Missile attacks against Marib: 50 dead and 140 wounded
YEMEN, Feb. 25 (VOP) - The Yemeni army's ballistic unit, the Ansarullah movement, and Yemen's air force issued a joint statement Friday on the destruction of the Saudi coalition's command center in Marib province, east of Sanaa. The Patriot PAC-3 air defense system and the headquarters...
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German parties denounce arms exports to countries in conflict with Yemen
GERMANY / YEMEN, Feb. 25 (VOP) - German opposition parties have asked for explanations on arms exports to Yemen, Fars News reported. According to the German news agency Der Tagesspiegel, the German parties Die Linke (Left) and Die Grünen (Greens) have called on the ruling parties...
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Two explosions in Yemen
YEMEN - Two people were killed and 53 were injured when two mined cars were bombed in the Yemeni city of Aden, the website of the Interior Ministry reported. According to the department, the explosions thundered in the south-west of the city and were aimed at...
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Saudi Arabia targets a humanitarian convoy of the World Food Program in Yemen
YEMEN - Saudi Arabia has targeted a humanitarian convoy of the World Food Program in Yemen.The anti-Yemeni military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, admitted, Thursday, February 22 evening, hit the night before, two vehicles and a truck, loaded with food, in the south of the...
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