Yemen’s Houthis release 153 prisoners with Red Cross support
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Yemen’s Houthis released 153 prisoners on Saturday with support from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the ICRC said in a statement. People detained by the Houthis walk on the day of their release in Sana’a, Yemen, on 25th January, 2025. PICTURE: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah The identities of the prisoners were not […]
Yemen’s Houthis free crew of ‘Galaxy Leader’ after over a year, Al Masirah TV reports
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have released the crew of the Galaxy Leader more than a year after they seized the Bahamas-flagged vessel off the Yemeni Red Sea coast, Houthi-owned Al Masirah TV reported on Wednesday. It said the crew were handed to Oman “in coordination” with the three-day-old ceasefire in Gaza’s […]
Israel, at UN, warns Houthis risk sharing same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah
Reuters Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations issued on Monday what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt their missile attacks on Israel, saying they risked the same “miserable fate” as Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad if they persisted. The ambassador, Danny Danon, also warned Tehran that Israel has […]
WHO chief describes ordeal during Israeli strike on Yemen airport
Zurich, Switzerland Reuters The head of the World Health Organization said on Friday he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike on Yemen’s main airport carried out by Israel a day earlier during a series of attacks on the Iran-aligned Houthi movement. Speaking after his ordeal at the Sana’a International Airport […]
Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen, killing six
Jerusalem Reuters Israel struck multiple targets linked to the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen on Thursday, including Sana’a International Airport, and Houthi media said at least six people were killed. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said he was about to board a plane at the airport when it came under […]
Israel strikes port and energy targets in Yemen
Cairo, Egypt/Jerusalem Reuters Israel launched strikes against ports and energy infrastructure in Houthi-held parts of Yemen on Thursday and threatened more attacks against the Iran-aligned militant group, which has launched hundreds of missiles at Israel over the past year. As Israeli jets were in the air, the Israeli military said it intercepted a missile headed […]
Israel keeps up Lebanon assault, strikes Yemen port
Jerusalem/Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Israel said it bombed Houthi targets in Yemen on Sunday, expanding its confrontation with Iran’s allies in the region two days after killing the Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an escalating conflict in Lebanon. The airstrikes on Yemen’s port of Hodeidah were in response to Houthi missile attacks on Israel in […]
Israel kills Hezbollah leader Nasrallah, robbing Iran of top ally
Jerusalem/Beirut Reuters Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in Beirut, dealing a heavy blow to the Iran-backed group as it reels from an escalating campaign of Israeli attacks. The Israeli military said on Saturday it had eliminated Nasrallah in the strike on the group’s central command headquarters in Beirut’s southern […]
Houthi missile reaches central Israel for first time, no injuries reported
Jerusalem, Israel Reuters Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would inflict a “heavy price” on the Iran-aligned Houthis who control northern Yemen, after they reached central Israel with a missile on Sunday for the first time. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group struck with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that travelled 2,040 kilometres […]
As salvage starts, no oil spilling from tanker set ablaze by Houthis in Red Sea
Athens Greece Reuters As salvage operations began on an abandoned Greek-flagged oil tanker with deck fires still burning from Houthi rebel attacks, the EU’s Red Sea naval mission Aspides said on Thursday that no oil spill has been detected. Yemen’s Houthi militants carried out multiple assaults, including planting bombs on the already disabled 274.2-meter Sounion […]