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Fighters against Shi’ite rebels known as Houthis gather in the strait of Bab Al-Mandab, west of the southern port city of Aden, to take back the control of the strait on Friday, October 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Wael Qubady)

Yemen severs diplomatic ties with Iran: FM

by Arafat Madabish | Oct 3, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh and Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Yemeni government has decided to sever diplomatic ties with Iran over what its foreign ministry said was “a series of violations Tehran committed inside Yemeni territory.” Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin told Asharq Al-Awsat...

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Fighters loyal to Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi stand in the area of the strategic Bab Al-Mandab Strait, in the southern Yemeni province of Taiz, on October 1, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / SALEH AL-OBEIDI)

Yemen: Government forces, Arab coalition seize strategic strait

by Arafat Madabish | Oct 2, 2015 | Middle East

Aden and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s army and Saudi-led coalition forces retook the strategic Bab El-Mandeb Strait on the Red Sea on Thursday in a major military operation against Houthi rebels and allied supporters of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The...

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This image posted on the official Twitter account of the Saudi Press agency, SPA, on Tuesday, September. 30, 2015, shows a confiscated Iranian fishing boat smuggling weapons bound for Yemen. (Saudi Press Agency via AP)

Saudi-led coalition seizes weapons on Iranian boat bound for Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 30, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Arab coalition forces fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen have intercepted an Iranian fishing boat in the Arabian Sea carrying weapons meant for the insurgent group, the Saudi-led coalition said in a statement on Wednesday. “The Command of...

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Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, who returned recently to his country after a nearly six-month exile, looks on during a meeting in the southern city of Aden on September 27, 2015. (AFP Photo/Ahmed Farwan)

Yemen’s president to address UN General Assembly on Tuesday

by Heba El Koudsy | Sep 28, 2015 | Middle East

New York, Aden and Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi will address the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, according to Yemeni government sources. The sources told Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday that Hadi will speak regarding the crisis in Yemen...

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Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin addresses a plenary meeting of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York, on September 26, 2015. (Reuters/Darren Ornitz)

Yemen FM slams UN Security Council response to country’s crisis

by Heba El Koudsy | Sep 27, 2015 | Middle East

Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin on Saturday criticized the UN Security Council for its response to the crisis that has plunged the country into turmoil for over a year. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat via telephone from New York—where he...