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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Bin Abdulaziz (R) meets with Yemen’s President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi at the Al-Salam Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on October 5, 2015. (Saudi Press Agency)
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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
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...Caption:
A picture taken on April 1, 2015 shows Yemen’s Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin talking to the press at the Yemeni embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh. (AFP Photo/Stringer)
Yemeni government not informed of UN-brokered talks in Muscat: FM
Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Yemeni government has not been informed of UN-brokered talks currently being held in the Omani capital Muscat in order to resolve the crisis in Yemen, Foreign Minister Riyadh Yassin said on Sunday. UN Special Envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh...Caption:
Soldiers stand on a tank of the Saudi-led coalition deployed on the outskirts of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, on August 3, 2015. (AFP Photo/Saleh Al-Obeidi)
Ground operation “imminent” as coalition forces continue to arrive in central Yemen: source
Sana’a and Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—A coordinated ground operation including forces from the Saudi-led anti-Houthi coalition, the Yemeni army, and volunteers loyal to Yemen’s government will soon be launched to liberate areas of the country still under the control...Caption:
People stand around a wounded Yemeni man at a hospital after he was injured in the shelling of a neighborhood by the Houthi rebels and their allies in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on July 19, 2015. (EPA/Stringer)