Truthout | 15 Oct 2015 The aftermath of a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, September 5, 2015. The United States, Britain and France, bowing to pressure from Saudi Arabia, dropped plans for an international investigation into the war in Yemen, to the dismay of human rights groups. (Tyler Hicks / The New York Times) The…
SCF | 19 Sept 2015 Significantly, Yemeni sources report that alongside the fallen troops from the Gulf states are allied mercenaries belonging to Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militia. The mercenaries are believed to have been infiltrated into Yemen after receiving receiving training in set up in Saudi Arabia. Given that the United States and Britain are openly supplying the Saudi-led…
New Eastern Outlook | 27 August 2015 With almost a whimper, the Western media reported that the US-backed regimes of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and their auxiliary fighters drawn from Al Qaeda have begun carrying out what is the ground invasion of Yemen. Along with an ongoing naval blockade and months of…
RT | 24 Aug 2015 In the latest atrocity in Yemen, Saudi warplanes bombed a residential area, killing at least 65 people. Most of the victims are reported to be civilians from the Salah district of Taiz, Yemen’s third largest city. The apparent war crime committed has tragically become an almost daily occurrence during five…
Middle East Eye | July 24, 2015 Britain has actively contributed to the creation a humanitarian disaster in Yemen, and potentially helped turn the Middle East’s poorest state into the new Syria. Not hyperbole or rhetoric, just a bald statement of fact. I’ll leave it to others to try to explain the near total silence…
VT | 25 May 2015 Two Israeli F16’s, painted as Saudi, burning on the ground in Yemen, pilots “In the Wind” This week two F16s were shot down over Yemen. When the wreckage was examined, both were found to be of types never supplied to an Arab nation, not Saudi Arabia, not anyone. The only…
VT | 21 May 2015 Theory: neutron bomb dropped by IAF plane with Saudi markings… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7UHl3CxP-A?feature=player_embedded] A video received from Yemen, believed to be taken May 20, 2015, of an explosion, when analyzed by nuclear weapons experts is, by very high probability, a neutron bomb that could only have been an Israeli attack. The…
FARS News Agency | 9 May 2015 TEHRAN (FNA)- Saudi Arabia is running a fake copy of Yemen’s official news agency in an attempt to maintain an intense war of nerves with the Arab country. The Saudi monarchy has launched a news website under the URL of http://www.sabanew.net which is a fake copy of Yemen’s…
Huffington Post | 20 April 2015 WASHINGTON — Iranian representatives discouraged Houthi rebels from taking the Yemeni capital of Sanaa last year, according to American officials familiar with intelligence around the insurgent takeover. The seizure of the capital in September came as a surprise to the international community, as Houthi rebels demonstrating outside Sanaa realized…
NEO | 10 April 2015 It seems that the old saying: ”when you plot mischief for others, you’re preparing trouble for yourself” could not be any more accurate. And so it was with Saudi Arabia, who launched military aggression against its neighbor on 26 March, after building a shabby coalition in a matter of hours out…