Category: 3. Middle East

Yemen’s UAE-backed separatists announced a two-year transition to an independent state on Friday after seizing swathes of territory in a lightning offensive that triggered deadly airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition.

The surprise announcement means…

Yemen’s UAE-backed separatists announced a two-year transition to independence Friday despite reporting 20 deaths in airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition trying to roll back their weeks-long offensive across the country’s south.

A separatist…

Air strikes killed seven separatist fighters in Yemen on Friday, according to an official with the group, as a Saudi-led coalition hit back against a sweeping advance by the UAE-backed Southern Transition Council, threatening a major…

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ROME, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Emanuele Galeppini, a 16-year-old Italian international golfer who lived in Dubai, was named on Friday as the first of several possible victims from Italy to be identified after a New Year’s Eve bar fire in the Swiss ski…

On Tuesday, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks with U.S. President Trump and his team on the Gaza Strip, Syria, Lebanon and the rest of the active war fronts, an unusual drama was unfolding in Yemen. Saudi Arabia attacked two…

ANKARA, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would have a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday to discuss peace efforts between Ukraine and Russia as well as issues surrounding Gaza.

Speaking to reporters in…