President Donald Trump confirmed Thursday that the US had killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — days after the terrorist group claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at a US naval base. The US “conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qassim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of Al-Qaeda […]

More than 100 people were killed and dozens wounded in a missile and drone attack blamed on Huthi rebels in central Yemen, officials said Sunday. Saturday’s strike follows months of relative calm in the war between the Iran-backed Huthis and Yemen’s internationally recognised government, which is supported by a Saudi-led military coalition. The Huthis attacked […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to sell Saudi Arabia its missile defense systems on Monday in the wake of the attack on its oil facilities. “We are ready to help Saudi Arabia so that she can protect her territory. “She can do so in the same way that Iran has already done in buying the […]

DefenceTalkA Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen intercepted a Huthi rebel drone targeting the kingdom, a spokesman said Wednesday, calling it another violation of an already fragile ceasefire in a key Red Sea province. The unmanned drone was shot down in Yemeni airspace after the Iran-aligned rebels launched it from Hodeida province, coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saudi-led-coalition-intercepts-new-yemeni-rebel-drone-72330/

DefenceTalkFresh clashes and air strikes around the Yemeni city of Hodeida have killed 32 rebels, hospital and medical sources said on Sunday, as the UN envoy kept up peace efforts in Sanaa. A military source told AFP the Saudi-led coalition fighting alongside the Yemeni government against Huthi rebels carried out an air raid on a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/uns-yemen-envoy-in-sanaa-as-32-rebels-killed-71859/

DefenceTalkForty children were among 51 people killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen, the Red Cross said Tuesday, after thousands protested at a mass funeral. Fifty-six children were also among the 79 people wounded in the Thursday strike on Saada province, a rebel stronghold that borders Saudi Arabia, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/yemen-bus-strike-killed-40-children-says-red-cross-71808/

DefenceTalkSaudi air defences intercepted a missile fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom’s southern city of Najran on Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels said, adding that one person was wounded. “The missile was fired at Najran indiscriminately and with the aim of hitting residential areas,” coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki told the official […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saudi-forces-say-intercept-missile-fired-by-yemen-rebels-71606/

DefenceTalkIran’s Revolutionary Guards today rejected claims that the country is supplying weapons to Yemeni rebels after they fired several missiles into Saudi Arabia. “The aim of such claims by Saudi Arabia is to divert public opinion from the atrocities (they) are committing in Yemen,” said Yadollah Javani, a political officer for the Revolutionary Guards, according […]https://www.defencetalk.com/iran-guards-deny-supplying-missiles-to-yemen-rebels-71593/

DefenceTalkCountries selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and its allies must answer for “war crimes” being committed in Yemen, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani told his French counterpart in a phone call on Sunday. “In Yemen we are witnessing war crimes and countries that provide weapons for Saudi Arabia and the Arab coalition must be answerable in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/arms-exporters-must-answer-for-yemen-war-crimes-irans-rouhani-71541/

DefenceTalkUS Ambassador Nikki Haley said today that it was “time for the Security Council to act” following the release of a report by UN experts concluding that Iran had violated the arms embargo on Yemen. The report found that Tehran had failed to block supplies to Yemen’s Huthi rebels of ballistic missiles that were fired […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-wants-un-action-over-report-on-iranian-missiles-to-yemen-71478/