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Yemeni army, allies forces shoot down Saudi-led reconnaissance drone in Jizan
Jan 15, 2020 03:20Yemeni army forces, backed by allied fighters from the Popular Committees, have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the Saudi-led military coalition as it was flying in the skies over the kingdom’s southern border region of Jizan.
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Outbreak of dengue fever kills dozens of children in conflict-stricken Yemen
Jan 14, 2020 11:06A child advocacy group says dozens of children have lost their lives as a result of dengue-related illnesses, warning of an epidemic in the war-ravaged country whose health sector is teetering on the verge of total collapse due to the ongoing Saudi-led military onslaught.
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NGOs boycott pre-G20 meetings in Saudi Arabia over rights violations
Jan 14, 2020 09:28Three prominent international NGOs have boycotted meetings that Saudi Arabia is holding with civil society groups ahead of the annual Group of Twenty (G20) Summit, saying the Riyadh regime is trying to “whitewash its dire human rights record” by hosting such events.
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Saudi TV suspends Palestinian announcer over solidarity with Yemen
Jan 13, 2020 05:45The Director General of Saudi sports network, KSA Sports, has reportedly suspended Palestinian announcer Razan Malash from appearing on television broadcasts after finding out that she had posted a series of posts on Twitter in solidarity with Yemen and in condemnation of the Riyadh regime’s campaign against the impoverished Arab country.
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Amnesty International calls on Riyadh regime to release Saudi woman’s rights activist
Jan 12, 2020 03:59Amnesty International has urged Saudi authorities to immediately and unconditionally release jailed prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul, whose arrest more than four years ago marked the start of a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against women activists in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
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Haftar rejects Turkey-Russia’s call for Libyan ceasefire
Jan 10, 2020 07:55Libyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar has rejected calls for a ceasefire by Turkey and Russia, insisting that he would continue the offensive against forces of the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli.
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US violated Iraq sovereignty by assassinating Gen. Soleimeni: Houthi
Jan 08, 2020 16:19The leader of Yemen’s Ansarullah movement has strongly condemned the recent assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and the second-in-command of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis near Baghdad International Airport, stating that the United States flagrantly violated Iraq’s sovereignty by committing such a felony.
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Yemeni forces hit gathering of Saudi-led mercenaries in Asir with missiles
Jan 06, 2020 07:49Yemeni forces have targeted a gathering of Saudi mercenaries in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern province of Asir with domestically-manufactured missiles in retaliation for airstrikes by the kingdom, a Yemeni military source says.
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Soleimani was to deliver Tehran's reply to Saudi de-escalation letter when martyred: Iraqi PM
Jan 06, 2020 04:15Iraq's Caretaker Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi has said that Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was set to deliver Tehran's reply to an earlier Saudi message regarding de-escalation talks mediated by Baghdad when he was assassinated.
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Yemen’s southern separatists withdraw from Riyadh Agreement committees
Jan 02, 2020 07:57The UAE-backed separatists in southern Yemen say they have pulled out of committees implementing a recent power-sharing agreement with Saudi-backed forces supporting the ex-Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.