Special to WorldTribune.com Yemeni forces, bolstered by the Saudi-led coalition, have regained control of one of the world’s most strategic waterways. “The Bab al-Mandab Strait is now under the total control of our troops,” Yemeni Gen. Turki Ahmed told AFP on Oct. 2. The strait was “brought under our control with the help of coalition forces, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Exiled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi arrived in the country’s second city of Aden on Sept. 22 and vowed to swiftly reclaim the capital Sanaa from Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Hadi, who was in exile in Saudi Arabia for six months, arrived in Aden hours before a Saudi-led coalition air strike killed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Qatar is sending 1,000 troops to join the Saudi-led coalition battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. A Qatari official confirmed the deployment on Sept. 8 and said the troops, armed with heavy ground weapons, were “ready to fight.” The Qatari forces were positioned at Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia and “should be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi-led coalition warships were said to be en route to the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah as coalition air strikes pounded Houthi rebel targets in the city. The Red Sea port of Hodeidah has been a key transit point for aid to northern Yemen, dominated by the Iran-backed Houthis. The air strikes […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Forces backed by Saudi-led coalition air strikes and loyal to Yemen’s exiled president, recaptured the nation’s largest military base from Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Aug. 3. According to a commander of the fighters loyal to President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi, the forces captured the al-Anad base after heavy fighting in which dozens were […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Saudi-led coalition has taken back the key southern port city of Aden in what they said marked a seismic shift in Yemen’s four-month-old civil war. Losing Aden was seen as a crushing defeat for the Houthi rebels and their Iranian sponsors. “The situation has been completely turned upside down after the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com After declaring the key southern port city of Aden “liberated,” militias loyal to Yemen’s leaders in exile and the Saudi-led coalition continued to make gains against Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Officials say the Shi’ite Houthis were driven out of two military bases on July 18 by southern militiamen of the Popular Resistance backed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Despite a plea from U.S. President Barack Obama to end hostilities in Yemen, Saudi-led warplanes carried out several attacks on Houthi rebel positions and loyalists of exiled president Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi seized more ground in Aden. Obama had phoned Saudi King Salman on July 14 to urge an end to the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi Arabia will not hesitate to confront Iran’s “trouble-making” in the region, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said. At a news conference in Amman, Jordan on July 9, Jubeir said the Saudis were “determined that Iran should not have a negative intervention in the region or in Arab countries.” Jubeir said Riyadh […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi-led air strikes destroyed the headquarters of former Yemeni President and Houthi ally Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party on July 5. The air strikes in Sanaa killed and wounded several people, witnesses and a party official said, according to Reuters. The bombing also came as UN special envoy to Yemen […]