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19Apr

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Yemen

Yemen, The Most Horrific Genocide. A Country without Food, Water, Medicine and Fuel

NOVANEWS With MSM AWOL on Yemen, MintPress News Series to Give Yemenis Back Their Voice By Mnar Muhawesh Global Research As the U.S.-Saudi-led war against Yemen enters its third year, the people of this coffin-shaped nation on the Arabian peninsula find themselves struggling not only to survive but to be seen and heard by a mainstream media that is preoccupied with war in neighboring Syria, the resumption of Cold War-like tensions with Russia, and President Trump’s Twitter account and sex life. When the international press corps does shine a light on the conflict in Yemen, it is described as a sectarian affair, a bloodless, “video-game” battle fought by nameless Iranian proxies against Saudi Arabia. But what’s really happening in the poorest country in the Middle East is a test...

26Jan

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Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Yemen Peace Prospects Examined

NOVANEWS Peter Salisbury speaks at Washington, DC’s Arab Gulf States Institute. [Staff Photo Phil Pasquini] Journalist Peter Salisbury spoke Jan. 18 at Washington, DC’s Arab Gulf States Institute (AGSIW) on “Yemen: National Chaos, Local Order.” His December 2017 50-page assessment of the situation in Yemen of the same title was published by Chatham House, where he is a senior consulting researcher in its Middle East and North Africa program. Salisbury is also a non-resident fellow at AGSIW. In his talk, Salisbury challenged current thinking on Yemen’s civil war as a binary conflict between the exiled government of President Abd Raboo Mansour Al-Hadi, backed by Saudi Arabia, and the now collapsed alliance between the Houthis—followers of Zaydism, a branch of Shi’i Islam —and Y...

5Jan

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David and Goliath battle continues in Yemen to the shame of Saudi partners

NOVANEWS By: Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor The US cannot sit in judgement on anyone after what it has done in Syria and Yemen Mike Pence cancels Middle East trip – original title Are we maybe re-living biblical times? [ Note: Press TV Programs tapes its interviews for editing into a fast paced news feature, so one never knows what parts of your contribution they will use. Sometimes it is just one clip, but for this one I got three in a ten minute program. It’s always nice to have more time as reporting on these complex wars is much harder to do really just using sound bites. So the pressure is on guests to pack as much information as they can into helping the public understand what is really going on. Mining ironies is one of my tactics, like Trump pretending he is all for freed...

20Dec

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Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Will Saudi Arabia Impose Ahmed Ali Saleh, son of a Dictator, as Ruler of Yemen?

NOVANEWS The ex-president is dead. Will the son rise over Yemen? by Brian Whitaker When Yemen held parliamentary elections in 1997, Ahmed Ali Saleh, then aged 24, was a first-time candidate. Though new to politics, he won by a handsome margin – a victory that was no doubt helped by having his father, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and many of the ruling party’s elite as voters in the district that elected him. The son’s effortless entry into parliament left Yemenis in no doubt that this was the first step in a succession plan: the grooming of Ahmed Ali to inherit the presidency from his father had begun. In 2012, though, the succession plan was thrown into disarray. Months of street protests forced President Saleh to step down and he was succeeded not by his son but by his dep...

18Dec

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Iran, Saudi Arabia, USA, Yemen

Al-Houthi Hits back at US Claims on Iran Missile Supply

NOVANEWS Head of Yemen’s Revolutionary Council, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi Al-Manar Head of Yemen’s revolutionary Committee, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi hit back at US claims that Iran had been supplying Yemeni revolutionaries with missiles. “Had we imported Iranian missiles, then we would have boosted our air-defense system,” Al-Houthi said on his Twitter account. “What’s ironic is that the US is the side who is supplying the Saudi-led aggression with banned weapons that have been killing the Yemeni people,” Al-Houthi said, stressing that the US has failed in Yemen. Yemen has been since March 2015 under a brutal aggression by Saudi Zio-Wahhabi led coalition, in a bid to restore power to fugitive C.I.A puppet Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi. Tens of thousands of Yemenis have been injured and martyre...

16Dec

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Afghanistan, Yemen

Yemen, Afghanistan in focus as landmine casualties spike

NOVANEWS Landmines killed 8,605 people in several countries in 2016, despite an international ban on the deadly device, a monitoring group says. According to the annual report released Thursday by Landmine Monitor, about three-quarters of the known casualties were civilians, including more than 1,000 children who were injured and nearly 500 who were killed. The number of the casualties — which were mostly recorded in Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine and Yemen — showed a 30% surge compared to 2015. “A few intense conflicts, where utter disregard for civilian safety persists, have resulted in very high numbers of mine casualties for the second year in a row,” Loren Persi, an editor of the Landmine Monitor said. Persi described the spike as “alarming”, adding that the true number of the vic...

3Dec

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Yemen

Saudi Zio-Wahhabi Coalition Crumbles In Yemen

NOVANEWS Saudi Coalition Crumbles In Yemen: Sudanese Mercenaries On Front Lines, Foreign Officers, Proxies In Revolt By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge Most Americans might be forgiven for having no clue what the war in Yemen actually looks like, especially as Western media has spent at least the first two years of the conflict completely ignoring the mass atrocities taking place while white-washing the Saudi coalition’s crimes. Unlike wars in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, which received near daily coverage as they were at their most intense, and in which many Americans could at least visualize the battlefield and the actors involved through endless photographs and video from on the ground, Yemen’s war has largely been a faceless and nameless conflict as far as major media is concerned. Aside from m...

7Mar

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Saudi Arabia, USA, Yemen

US Hiring Mercenaries with $1,500 Daily Wages for War in Southern Yemen

NOVANEWS Intelligence sources in Sana'a disclosed that the US has sent a large number of mercenaries it has hired on high wages to the Southern parts of Yemen to help the Saudi troops against the Yemeni forces there. "The US has dispatched American security mercenaries to Southern Yemen for further cooperation with the Saudi-led coalition," a Yemeni intelligence source told FNA in Sana'a on Saturday. The source noted that the US will pay each mercenary $1,500 per day, and said, "The mission of the US mercenaries is to commit crimes and hurt the Yemeni civilians in Yemen." He said that the mercenaries have been recruited from different parts of world. The source also warned that the Saudi-Zio-Wahhabi led coalition intends to hire more Blackwater mercenaries after its recent defea...

7Mar

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Saudi Arabia, Yemen

How the War Broke out in Yemen

NOVANEWS How the War Broke out in Yemen By the time ISIS is defeated in Iraq & Syria, Yemen may become the new home for the next Wahhabi ‘Caliph’. Yemen has seen its fair share of wars throughout its recent history, building a reputation for itself as a battle-hardened warring nation. This common misconception couldn’t be further from the truth. The fact is the majority of the Yemeni people are kind hearted and humble folk who just want to live a life without fear of a bomb being dropped on their head as they sleep or witnessing their children losing limbs after trying to pick up an old hidden mine or cluster munition. No people are born ‘war-like’ but the sad fact is some people are born into a region plagued by war, Yemen is one of those countries most heavily affected by mon...

7Mar

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Saudi Arabia, Yemen

Saudi Zio-Wahhabi family Stealing 65% of Yemen’s Oil in Collaboration with Total

NOVANEWS Saudi Arabia Stealing 65% of Yemen's Oil in Collaboration with Total A Yemeni economic expert disclosed that Saudi Arabia is stealing his country's crude reserves in bordering regions in collaboration with the French energy giant, Total. "63% of Yemen's crude production is being stolen by Saudi Arabia in cooperation with Mansour Hadi, the fugitive Yemeni president, and his mercenaries," Mohammad Abdolrahman Sharafeddin told FNA on Tuesday. "Saudi Arabia has set up an oil base in collaboration with the French Total company in the Southern parts of Kharkhir region near the Saudi border province of Najran and is exploiting oil from the wells in the region," he added. Sharafeddin said that Riyadh is purchasing arms and weapons with the petro dollars stolen from the Yemeni peo...