by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 30, 2017 | Middle East
Riyadh– Houthi militias used a remote-controlled bombed boat to attack al-Mokha port on the west coast of Yemen on Saturday, without causing casualties. The boat collided with a naval pier near a group of ships, causing an explosion, according to a statement issued by...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 27, 2017 | Middle East
London, Geneva, Moscow- The “Syrian National Coalition” asked on Wednesday that the UN Security Council lists the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (YPD) and its US-backed military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG) as terrorist organizations. “There is a public...
by Paula Astih, Taha Abdel-Wahed | Jun 9, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut, Moscow, Washington- The desert area in southern Syria witnessed on Thursday a new escalation between the Washington-led coalition and the Syrian regime and its linked militias after a US warplane shot down a pro-Assad drone that fired towards coalition forces...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 26, 2017 | Middle East
Three senior ISIS military leaders and planners were killed in US-led coalition attacks in Iraq and Syria over the past two months, the coalition fighting the militants said in a statement released by the Pentagon on Friday. Mustafa Gunes, an ISIS operative from...
by Nayef Al-Rasheed | Apr 3, 2017 | Middle East
Riyadh, London- The Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) on Yemen has held the Arab Coalition responsible for an unintentional airstrike in Hajjah, but exonerated it from three other airstrikes. The JIAT urged coalition forces to apologize for their unintentional...