Tag: Saudi-led coalition

Saudi coalition refuses to re-open key Yemen port

UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The Saudi-led coalition will take steps in the coming 24 hours to ease the blockade on Yemen — but will not reopen a key rebel-held port to aid shipments unless tighter inspections are put in place, Saudi Arabia’s UN ambassador said Monday. The coalition fighting rebels in Yemen shut down the country’s land, sea and air borders a week ago in response to a missile attack by the Iran-backed […]

Saudi-led airstrikes hit Sanaa following Houthi ballistic missile attack

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) — Saudi-led coalition warplanes waged a series of airstrikes on military targets in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Saturday night and early Sunday morning, just few hours after Yemen’s Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile towards the Saudi capital Riyadh. The warplanes hit several military targets inside Sanaa, including the parade viewing stand in al-Sabeen Square, the nearby presidential palace, the national security headquarters, interior ministry and air defense bases […]

Saudi-led coalition says Yemen civilians hit by mistake

  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) — The Saudi-led Arab military coalition on Saturday admitted responsibility for an air strike the previous day in the Yemeni capital that killed 14 civilians, describing it as a “technical mistake”. The coalition, in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency, said a review of the strike investigators found “that a technical mistake was behind the accident”. Witnesses and medics in Sanaa said several children were among 14 […]

Children among 14 dead in new air strike on Yemen capital

  by Jamil Nasser Agence France Presse SANAA, Yemen (AFP) — Children were among at least 14 people killed in an air strike that toppled residential blocks in Yemen’s capital Sanaa on Friday, witnesses and medics said. The attack was the latest in a wave of deadly raids on residential areas of Yemen blamed on a Saudi-led Arab military coalition, drawing strong international condemnation. The United Nations has accused the Arab coalition of killing 42 […]