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Child Malnutrition at 'All Time High' in Yemen: U.N. Agency
2016-12-14
Hunger among Yemen's children has reached an "all time high", with nearly 2.2 million in need of urgent care, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said on Monday.
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Stars and Stripes: ISIS Calls for Attacks on US Bases in Bahrain
2016-12-13
A US Army-affiliated website “Stars and Stripes” said that “the Islamic State (ISIS) has called on its followers to carry out attacks in Bahrain, including on U.S. installations, presumably including the U.S. 5th Fleet.”
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Mohammad bin Salman and Nasser bin Hamad: Who is “Iron Man”?
2016-12-10
Nasser is striving to portray himself as “a man of war” after his first two images were deformed, when he painted himself as an “athletic prince”, and was later exposed as a torturer.
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GCC Summit Ends without Declaring “Gulf Union”
2016-12-09
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders ended their 37th Summit in Manama. The closing statement did not break new ground in the “Gulf Union” file, which was heavily promoted in Gulf press during the past few days.
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Sanaa Government Accuses Hadi Government of Opening New Battlefronts
2016-12-09
Sanaa’s newly assigned Foreign Ministry accused the government of Yemeni president Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Saudi-led coalition of opening news battlefronts.
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Yemen Says U.N. Roadmap to End Conflict Sets Dangerous Precedent
2016-12-08
Yemen on Tuesday appeared to reject a U.N. plan to end its civil war, saying the roadmap would create a "dangerous international precedent" by legitimizing the rebellion against the country's internationally recognized government.
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U.S. Urges Yemen to Accept U.N.-Drafted Roadmap for Peace Talks
2016-12-08
The United States expressed disappointment on Wednesday at the Yemeni government's reaction to a U.N.-drafted roadmap to end the country's civil war and urged it to accept the proposal as a basis to begin negotiations on a peace agreement.
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Investigation Urges Coalition Apology for Yemen Hospital Attack
2016-12-08
An investigative body set up by the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Tuesday it should apologize for a deadly attack on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in August that the group said killed 11 people.
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Gulf Summit Kicks off stressing on Finding Solutions for Syrian and Yemeni Crises
2016-12-07
The 37th GCC summit kicked off in Manama on Tuesday (December 6, 2016), stressing on finding solutions for the Yemeni and Syrian crises.
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Coinciding with May’s Visit, UK’s Largest Warship Docks in Mina Salman Port
2016-12-07
Edwin Samuel, spokesperson for the UK government in the Middle East and North Africa, said that the largest UK military warship is now present in Bahrain’s Mina Salman Port
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Aden Security Arrests ISIS-Affiliated Assassination Cell
2016-12-07
The Security Directorate of the south Yemeni city of Aden said that the anti-terrorism unit of the City Security Department arrested an 8-member ISIS-affiliated military cell, in coordination with the Saudi-led Arab coalition forces.
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Qaeda Militants Blow up Yemen Gas Export Pipeline
2016-12-06
Al Qaeda militants blew up Yemen's only gas export pipeline on Monday, local officials said, in a further blow to a moribund but vital piece of infrastructure for an impoverished country battered by 20 months of war.
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Formation of New Houthi Government does not Help Yemen: U.N. Envoy
2016-11-30
The formation of a new government by Yemen's armed Houthi movement and its political allies will hinder peace efforts in the country, the U.N. special envoy to Yemen said on Tuesday.
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Yemen: Houthis and National Congress Form “National Salvation” Government
2016-11-29
The Houthi state news agency SABA reported that the Supreme Political Council announced the formations of a new “National Salvation” Government on Monday (November 28, 2016).
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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Assassinating Aden Airport Officer
2016-11-27
ISIS declared on its Telegram instant messaging application its responsibility for killing the Aden Airport security officer last Tuesday (November 22, 2016), in the southern Yemeni city.
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Reuters: Houthi Missile Arsenal Holds a Key to Future Yemen Peace
2016-11-24
A U.N. peace plan for Yemen seeks to deprive the country's armed Houthi movement of its missile arsenal which Yemeni security sources say includes scores and maybe even hundreds of Soviet-era ballistic missiles pointed at their foes in Saudi Arabia, Noah Browning wrote in his article for Reuters.
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Twelve Civilians Killed in Saudi-led Airstrike on Yemen
2016-11-24
Residents of Yemen said that twelve Yemeni civilians were killed by a Saudi-led air strike while riding in a pickup truck in the country's northwest early on Wednesday (November 23, 2016).
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Saudi Arabia Announces Yemen Ceasefire End Without Extension
2016-11-21
A 48-hour ceasefire ended Monday in Yemen after failing to stem violence across the country, with both sides blaming each other for deadly "violations" of the US-backed truce, AFP reported.
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Hadi’s Gov’t Says Saudi-Houthi Deal Announced by Kerry Was Not Coordinated with It
2016-11-16
Yemeni Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi said that his country has no knowledge of the deal announced by US Secretary of State John Kerry, announcing a Yemen ceasefire and formation of a new government.
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Kerry Announces Saudi-Houthi Ceasefire Deal on Nov. 17, Hopes of New National Unity Gov’t
2016-11-16
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that Yemen's Houthi group and the Saudi-led coalition fighting it had agreed to a ceasefire in Yemen from Thursday (November 17, 2016).