Saudi Arabia

US Senate to rebuke Trump on support for Saudi Arabia

Mar 13, 2019 03:26

The US Senate is set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would withdraw Washington's support for the Saudi Arabia-led military aggression on Yemen, in a direct rebuke of President Donald Trump as lawmakers push his administration to toughen its policy toward Riyadh.
'US govt. sides with Saudi Arabia over 9/11 victims'

Mar 12, 2019 03:27

Head of the 9/11 Families and Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism group Terry Strada has claimed that past US administrations have sided with Saudi Arabia against a lawsuit assessing Riyadh's alleged role in the attack.
Yemen's rabid dogs eat the dead and bite the living

Mar 11, 2019 13:54

The number of people bitten by rabid dogs has increased noticeably since 2015 when the war on Yemen began.
Arms dealers complicit in Saudi war crimes in Yemen: Iran

Mar 11, 2019 13:34

Iran has censured the latest Saudi airstrikes in Yemen's northwestern province of Hajjah, saying the so-called advocates of human rights are complicit in Riyadh's crimes as they sell arms to the regime.
Arms flow into West Asia dangerously rises: Study

Mar 11, 2019 08:12

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has found that arms sales to West Asia have grown by 87 percent over the past five years, with Saudi Arabia topping the list of importers.
Saudi war damages education sector in Yemen: UNICEF

Mar 11, 2019 04:27

The United Nations children's agency estimates that out of seven million school-aged children in Yemen over two million are not being educated amid a Saudi-led coalition’s war against the impoverished Arab state.
20 women, one child martyred in fresh Saudi airstrikes in Yemen

Mar 11, 2019 03:37

Nearly two dozen women and a child have been martyred in the latest round of Saudi airstrikes in Yemen as the Riyadh regime presses ahead with its atrocious campaign against the impoverished southern neighbor.
‘Unlike Saudi Arabia, Iran seeks no tension with any country’

Mar 11, 2019 03:00

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says unlike Riyadh, Tehran does not seek tension with any country in the region, including Saudi Arabia.
Yemen crisis: Saudi-led war causes child malnutrition, widespread illness

Mar 10, 2019 13:01

Millions of Yemeni people, including children, are in dire humanitarian situation, starving to death.
Iran will be opening new chapter with Iraq: Zarif

Mar 10, 2019 09:19

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says an upcoming visit by President Hassan Rouhani to Iraq — the president’s first — will be the beginning of a new chapter in Tehran-Baghdad relations.