Syrian Premier Mohammad Naji al-Otri says Israel lacks US backing for an attack on Iran in fear of potential consequences of an ensuing conflict, a report says. “It is unlikely that there will be a future war and I doubt America would give Israel the permission” for a strike on Iran over the country’s nuclear [...]

Houthi fighters in Yemen have released 100 government soldiers and announced that more will be freed in the coming days. The latest batch of soldiers released had been held in the region of al-Amishiya in northern Amran province, Sheikh Hassan bin Abdullah al-Ahmar, a pro-government prominent tribal chief who helped mediate the prisoners’ release, said [...]

Yemen has denied a report which claims Houthi fighters have captured 200 soldiers from the army’s Republican Guards in the northern province of Amran. The report carried by Al-Arabiya said that the soldiers belonging to regiment 72 of the army’s Republican Guards were captured after the Muslim fighters seized a strategic army post in Al-Zaala [...]

At least 40 people have lost their lives in four days of clashes between Yemen Hezbollah Movement fighters and members of an army-backed tribe in northern Yemen. “The confrontations between the Houthis and the supporters of the tribal chief Sheikh Sagheer Aziz have resulted in the death of 20 tribesmen and 10 Houthis,” AFP quoted [...]

Yemen is reportedly preparing for another round of armed offensives against the Houthi fighters, despite the ongoing truce. The Army is digging trenches, stretched from the capital of Sana’a to the Houthi stronghold of Sa’ada, the fighters said on their website on Saturday. The fighters warned that government forces stationed in the Alamsheep Bsvian region [...]

Al-Aqsa TV condemns France’s decision to ban the channel’s transmissions, saying it is an illegal move which aims at satisfying “Israeli and US desires.” Muhammad Abu Thuraya, the deputy director of al-Aqsa TV, said that his channel will “mobilize rights activist in the world” against the decision. Abu Thuraya also said that the authorities of [...]

Yemen’s interior ministry says Houthi fighters have released four soldiers who had disappeared in the northern parts of the country several days ago. The ministry issued an official statement on Friday night, stating that Houthi fighters had handed the soldiers over to local mediators. Earlier this week, the Yemeni government accused Houthi fighters of abducting [...]

10th meeting of the regional office of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) kicked off in Tehran, IRI capital, on Monday morning. The aim of the meeting is to study current situation of flights in the Middle East region. Representatives of 12 countries, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, United Arab [...]

Saudi air strikes continue to target northern Yemen as the Sana’a government says it would reconsider ceasefire with the fighters should they comply with its demands. The Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters said Tuesday that Saudi warplanes carried out almost a dozen air raids in northern villages. According to the resistance fighters, Saudi forces fired [...]

The Red Cross says humanitarian conditions in Yemen are at their worst after five months of fighting between Saudi forces and the Houthi fighters. The Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Monday that the war in northern Yemen has dramatically worsened the fate of civilians in the area. In a statement ahead [...]

Yemen, Britain, and the United States have discussed preparations for the upcoming London conference on extremism in Yemen. Representatives of 21 countries plan to participate in the January 28 conference, called by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. On Saturday in Sana’a, Yemen’s Undersecretary of the Foreign Ministry, Mohi al-Deen al-Dhabi, held separate meetings with US [...]

Houthi fighters in Yemen claim to have parried incursions by the army into their strongholds in the north, forcing government troops to retreat with their tanks ablaze. The Houthis said they repelled the Yemeni soldiers who stormed their position on Thursday in the border village of al-Jabiri, 966 kilometers (600 miles) from the Saudi capital, [...]

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has ordered the suspension of direct flights from Yemen to the UK until stronger security measures are establish. “We have agreed with Yemenia airlines — pending enhanced security — that they suspend their direct flights to the UK from Yemen with immediate effect,” Brown said in a statement on counter-terrorism [...]

Saudi fighter jets keep bombing Houthi positions in northern Yemen along the border the country shares with the oil-rich kingdom, killing more than a dozen people. According to a statement released by the fighters on Monday, Saudi forces carried out 17 aerial attacks on Dammaj, destroying a mosque in the northern region. The warplanes also [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki says the US, Britain, and Israel are implementing a plan to turn Yemen into another Afghanistan. Addressing a group of students at Imam Sadeq University in Tehran on Monday, Mottaki said the three countries want to make Yemen the fourth Muslim country to be attacked after Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. [...]

A US congressman has announced his plans to reintroduce the Stop Terrorists Entry Program (STEP) Act into Congress, which calls for the deportation of most Iranians without permanent resident status. The STEP Act, a bill that was originally presented in 2003, would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to bar citizens of Iran, Cuba, Sudan, [...]

A group of Israeli ‘experts’ visit Yemen at a time when the Arab country is rife with foreign military intervention. Five Israeli “agriculture experts” were in Yemen last week to help the country’s farmers, Israel’s Arutz Sheva newspaper reported on Sunday. Tel Aviv says the experts’ trip has nothing to do with the conflict in [...]

Head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas Khaled Mashaal met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday and discussed Palestinian national reconciliation process and efforts have been made in this regard. Assad reaffirmed his concern for Palestinian reconciliation, asserting that he will support any effort that will lead to [...]

Yemen says it needs intelligence and logistical support from the West in its “battle against terrorism”, however it will not agree with any joint military operation with the Americans in the country. Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi said that US forces were currently in Yemen training the country’s counterterrorism forces and Sana’a would accept more [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says insecurity in Yemen is a regional and global threat, as the White House prepares the ground for a new war in the region. “The instability in Yemen is a threat to regional stability and even global stability,” Clinton told reporters following talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad [...]