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The US Air Force says the ballistic missile that targeted Saudi Arabia was Iranian Nov. 10, 2017 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels that targeted the Saudi capital was from Iran and bore "Iranian markings," the top U.S. Air Force official in the...

The war in Yemen is rapidly unravelling and all indications are that the country might go the Syrian way. The government controls the south and is only making little progress against the Houthis who control the north. Added to the mix is the prescence of different terrorist groups like ISIS and...

Pro-government forces recaptured an oil terminal as well as the city of Mukalla after Yemeni troops backed by Arab coalition air strikes killed more than 800 members of Al-Qaeda in an attack on a southeastern provincial capital which was considered a jihadist stronghold, military sources said...

The command of the coalition forces to support the legitimacy in Yemen announced launching a joint military operation against al-Qaeda in Yemen. The operation's participants include the Yemeni army and elements of Saudi and United Arab Emirates special forces. The coalition command said in a...

US Navy intercept Iranian weapons shipment including 1,500 AK-47s and rocket launchers in the Arabian Sea heading to war-torn Yemen USS Sirocco. The U.S. Navy has confiscated a cache of weapons that it believes was being transported from Iran to Houthi rebels in Yemen, marking at least...

French navy seizes weapons cache heading from Iran to Yemen (CNN)The French seized a large weapons cache on a ship headed for Somalia on March 20, authorities said. It's the second large weapons seizure in the region this month, and both may have been headed to Yemen from Iran. According to...

Dateline Aden. Security sources said that at least 12 Al-Qaeda fighters and two policemen were killed late Saturday inAden. Fighter jets and Apache helicopters carried our 4 air strikes. The Saudi-led coalition carried out the attack in support of the security forces. With new checkpoints in the...

Somalia’s prime minister says ending the crisis in Yemen is “crucial” to preventing al-Shabab rebels from exploiting their recent allegiance with the Islamic State extremist group and forming a “terror network” that threatens Somalia and the region again. Omar Sharmarke told the UN Security...