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New study reveals real extent of US involvement in Saudi war on Yemen
Apr 05, 2019 03:03An American think tank says the US has struck arms deals worth billions of dollars with Saudi Arabia and the UAE since the start of Saudi war on Yemen in 2015, revealing new details about the extent of Washington's involvement in the aggression.
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US Congress votes to end support for Saudi-led war in Yemen, Trump likely to veto
Apr 05, 2019 02:12The US House of Representatives has approved a resolution to end US support for Saudi Arabia's war against Yemen, rebuffing President Donald Trump’s policy of continued support for Riyadh and curtailing a president's war-making powers.
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MSF halts work in Yemen’s militia-held Aden after patient abducted, killed
Apr 04, 2019 15:04International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has stopped admitting patients to its hospital in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, after a group of armed assailants stormed the medical facility, threatened staff there and kidnapped and killed a patient.
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'Khashoggi’s children receive luxury homes, monthly payments from Riyadh'
Apr 03, 2019 01:29Six months into the state-sponsored murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a new report reveals that his four children have received multi-million dollar homes and are being paid thousands of dollars a month by the kingdom in an apparent attempt to hush up the gruesome assassination.
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Lockheed Martin receives $2.5bn deal to forward US THAAD deal with Saudi Arabia
Apr 02, 2019 06:49The US Department of Defense has awarded arms manufacturing giant Lockheed Martin Corp a $2.5 billion contract to produce Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems for Saudi Arabia, as part of President Donald Trump’s extensive arms deals with the oil-rich kingdom.
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Leaked reports: Saudi political detainees subjected to severe abuse
Apr 02, 2019 00:38Leaked medical reports prepared for Saudi Arabia’s King Salman have for the first time provided evidence of the torture political detainees in the kingdom have been subjected to as part of the regime's violent crackdown on dissidents and possible rivals to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's rule.
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Yemeni forces target Saudi bases in Jizan, Asir with 7 missiles, causing casualties
Apr 01, 2019 03:00The Yemeni army and fighters from allied Popular Committees have launched several missiles at Saudi military positions in the kingdom’s southern regions in retaliation for Riyadh's deadly military campaign against their country.
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Saudi Arabia hacked Washington Post owner’s phone
Mar 31, 2019 03:01An investigation into the leaking of Amazon CEO and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos’ private phone data has revealed that Saudi Arabia hacked his phone, possibly because of the Post’s coverage of the state-sponsored murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Yemen says UK complicit in Saudi war crimes, can’t be peace-broker
Mar 30, 2019 02:51A senior Ansarullah official has lashed out at British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt for supporting continued exports of lethal weapons to Saudi Arabia, saying that London cannot be a peace-broker in Yemen while it is still arming the invaders.
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UAE minister says Israel boycott was wrong, time for Arab world to change strategy
Mar 30, 2019 00:59A senior official in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has called on Arab nations to change their decades-long strategy of having no diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime, which he brands as a mistake.