The Saudi-led coalition has said that it has foiled a plot by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels to attack the Red Sea on Saturday and destroyed their explosive-laden boat. The Arab League said in a statement that “the Houthis continue to pose a threat to international shipping and continue to threaten international trade routes.” The Arab League … Read more
Saudi Arabia has offered a comprehensive UN-sponsored ceasefire to Yemen’s Houthi rebels aimed at ending a devastating six-year conflict. But the Iranian-backed Houthis, who have recently stepped up attacks on Saudi installations, including oil installations, have rejected Riyadh’s move, according to an AFP report in the Dawn newspaper. The six-year-old conflict has recently escalated and … Read more
A spokesman for the Saudi-led Arab military coalitionBrigadier General Turki al-Maliki said another Houthi air defence system had been destroyed on the Marib front in Yemen. The Yemeni military has released a video clip of Houthi drones being destroyed. The incident comes after the liberation of new Hajj sites northwest of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. … Read more
The Saudi-led military coalition says a ballistic missile fired by Houthis at the southern city of Jazan was destroyed in mid-air. Yemen’s Houthi rebels said on Thursday they had fired missiles at Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil plant in the Saudi city of Jeddah. A statement from Saudi Arabia’s state media said, however, that the Saudi-led … Read more
The United Nations and human rights groups have welcomed US President Joe Biden’s decision to end the Houthi rebel movement’s status as a terrorist organization on February 16. According to the reports, the new US administration has reversed the last-minute decision of former President Donald Trump and declared the Houthi rebel movement a terrorist organization … Read more
