US civil rights groups are warning that an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Monday lays the groundwork for reinstatement of a ban on travelers from predominantly Muslim or Arab countries. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said the new order relied on the same statutory authority used to justify Trump’s 2017 travel ban and offered even “wider…
Negotiators were meeting in Qatar on Tuesday hoping to finalize details of a plan to end the war in Gaza, after US President Joe Biden indicated a ceasefire and hostage release deal was imminent. More than four hours after talks began there was still no word on an outcome. Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson Majed Al-Ansari told a…
The US military said Tuesday that it had conducted multiple precision strikes against Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen’s Sanaa and coastal locations within Houthi-controlled territory over the last 24 hours. Over two days, US Navy ships and fighter jets hit a Houthi command and control facility and advanced conventional weapon (ACW) production and storage facilities that included…
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations issued on Monday what he called a final warning to Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi militants to halt their missile attacks on Israel, saying they risked the same “miserable fate” as Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad if they persisted. The ambassador, Danny Danon, also warned Tehran that Israel has the ability to…
The Israeli military on Monday said that it had intercepted a missile launched from Yemen before it crossed into Israeli territory. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have been firing missiles and drones at Israel and ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in what they describe as solidarity with Palestinians since the war in the Gaza Strip…
Yemen’s warring parties and beleaguered people cannot wait indefinitely for a roadmap to peace before the country slips back to war, the UN special envoy told AFP. Hans Grundberg insisted it was “still possible” to solve the conflict in impoverished Yemen, where the Iran-backed Houthis control much of the country. But any chance of implementing…
The USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group is set to arrive in the Middle East later this week, a US official confirmed on Tuesday. The move comes amid escalating tensions in the region, marked by the recent collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime to a Syrian opposition group, Israel’s ongoing conflict in Gaza, and the…
US Navy destroyers responded to a range of Houthi-launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden as they escorted merchant vessels, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement on Sunday. CENTCOM said that USS Stockdale (DDG 106) and USS O’Kane (DDG 77) “successfully defeated a range of Houthi-launched weapons while transiting the Gulf…
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that the US military would be stepping up its attacks on Yemen’s Houthis because of its continued attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea. “You’ll see us increasingly place — use all the elements that are available to us in our national power to really begin to dial this down,…
Yemen’s Houthis attacked two US destroyers today with at least eight one-way attack drones, five anti-ship ballistic missiles and three anti-ship cruise missiles, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a press briefing that the US military successfully downed them all. Ryder also rejected the Houthi claim that they also targeted…
US military conducted multiple airstrikes Saturday night on several Houthi weapons storage facilities in Yemen that contained advanced conventional weapons, a US defense official told Al Arabiya English The weapons were used to target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The Houthi-run Al Masirah television network…
The Israeli military said on Sunday it had captured a Syrian spy for Iran in recent months, thwarting a planned attack by what it described as Iranian terror networks. The military named the “Iranian terror network operative” as Ali Soleiman al-Assi, a Syrian citizen living in the area of the southern village of Saida. “His…
Iran’s president said Sunday a potential ceasefire between its allies and Israel “could affect the intensity” of Tehran’s response to Israel’s recent strikes on Iranian military sites. “If they (the Israelis) reconsider their behavior, accept a ceasefire and stop massacring the oppressed and innocent people of the region, it could affect the intensity and type of our…
Pentagon chief ordered several B-52 bombers and refueling tanker aircraft to the Middle East, United States official told Al Arabiya English. The Pentagon said in a statement that this deployment, that also includes fighter jets and Navy destroyers, is part of the readjustment of military assets as the Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group prepares to leave the…
An American researcher said an Israeli airstrike on Saturday hit a building that was part of Iran’s defunct nuclear weapons development program, and he and another researcher said facilities used to mix solid fuel for missiles also were struck. The assessments based on commercial satellite imagery were reached separately by David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector,…
