Special to WorldTribune.com A Saudi-led coalition force of 4,000 troops is preparing for what is expected to be a grueling ground war against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. UAE Brig. Gen. Nasser Mushabab Al Otaibi is leading the combined land force that consists of soldiers from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan. The troops […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has claimed responsibility for a car bombing that killed the governor of the Yemeni city of Aden and six bodyguards. Jaafar Saad’s convoy was at the branch of the Ministry of Telecommunication in the southern city of Aden when the blast occurred, local officials said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran-backed Houthi rebels reclaimed key positions near Aden, the temporary capital of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government. Military sources said the Houthis re-took positions on Nov. 8 that they had lost to Saudi-led coalition forces in recent months, including a key overlook to the strategic Al-Anad airbase in Lahj province […]
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 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 Houthi rebels on June 27 launched missiles at a Yemeni oil refinery while 14 people were killed in clashes between the rebels and Saudi-led forces. The missiles started a huge fire at storage tanks at the Aden refinery in the Buraiqah area. The fighting had forced the refinery to shut down operations […]