DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Drones launched at Saudi, Jordan and Iraq suggest Iran, or linked groups, may be testing US as it mulls new strategy. Published On 27 Jul 202627 Jul 2026 Saudi Arabia has reported intercepting drones that targeted oil facilities in its eastern province and Riyadh. Saudi’s Foreign Ministry said it “reserves the right…
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Archbishop Christophe-Zakhia el-Kassis, apostolic nuncio to the United Arab Emirates and Yemen, as the Holy See’s new permanent observer to the United Nations in New York. The Lebanese-born archbishop, who is also apostolic delegate to the Arabian Peninsula, succeeds Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, who is now the papal nuncio to the United…
Speaking to the BBC, three Puntland security officials separately identified the craft hijacked on Friday as a tanker named MT Asana. They added that it was seized by seven gunmen who had set off from a remote area near the Puntland port town of Garacad before making their way to the Gulf of Aden. The…
ADEN, Yemen (AP) — Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, the internationally recognized president of Yemen who led a fractured government mostly from exile for eight years as the country descended into civil war and famine before stepping down in 2022, died Thursday. He was 80. State-run Yemeni TV said that he died at his residence in Riyadh,…
For many Muslims in the Middle East, another Eid arrived this week with little joy, under the shadow of war. Eid al-Adha, which marks the sacred Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, began on Wednesday. In a region battered by conflict, the festive holiday — known to some as the “Big Eid,” compared with Eid al-Fitr, which…
An oil tanker off the coast of Yemen was hijacked Saturday and diverted toward Somalia’s waters, according to Yemen’s Coast Guard, the latest in a spate of ship abductions around the Horn of Africa in recent weeks. An official in Somalia’s semiautonomous Puntland region, along with experts briefed by Yemeni and Somali authorities, said the…
Officials say pirates have become emboldened as naval forces patrolling the Red Sea area are distracted by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and civilian maritime routes diverted. Published On 2 May 20262 May 2026 Yemen’s Coast Guard has said that it is attempting to recover an oil tanker that was hijacked off the…
Shorouk Express The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen said Saturday that an Israeli airstrike earlier this week killed the prime minister of the rebel-controlled government in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa along with other Houthi officials, according to media reports. Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi was the most senior Houthi official killed in the Israeli-U.S. campaign against…
