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Yemen, [a] officially the Republic of Yemen, [b] is a country in West Asia. [11] Located in southern Arabia , it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Red Sea to the west, and the Indian Ocean to the south, sharing maritime borders with Eritrea , Djibouti and Somalia across the Horn of Africa .
Since 12 January 2024, the United States of America and the United Kingdom, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, [13] have launched a series of cruise missile and airstrikes, codenamed Operation Poseidon Archer, against the Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) in Yemen in response to Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea. [14]
Flag of Yemen Yemen's Location. Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen, is a country in West Asia.Located in southern Arabia, it borders Saudi Arabia to the north, Oman to the northeast, the Red Sea to the west, and the Indian Ocean to the south, sharing maritime borders with Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia across the Horn of Africa.
Family members of an Indian nurse who is on death row in war-torn Yemen say they are pinning their hopes on a last-ditch effort to save her. Nimisha Priya, 34, was sentenced to death for the ...
After the Houthi takeover in Yemen, Al-Masirah lost a number of employees due to conflict. On 4 January 2015 Al-Masirah Journalist Khaled al-Washli was killed by an exploding bomb as he covered attempts to diffuse it. [10] [11] [12] On 17 September 2015 Bilal Sharaf al-Deen was covering an airstrike, when he was killed by a following airstrike ...
According to the Yemen Data Project, Al-Dailami was the target of 154 Saudi-led coalition air raids, with up to 456 individual airstrikes hitting the air base between 26 March 2015 and 21 January 2022. [5] On January 12 2024, the US and the UK started attacks against Houthi targets in Yemen by conducting an airstrike on the airbase. [6]
The Politics of Yemen are in an uncertain state due to the Houthi takeover in Yemen.An armed group known as the Houthis or Ansar Allah seized control of the Northern Yemeni government and announced it would dissolve parliament, as well as install a "presidential council", "transitional national council", and "supreme revolutionary council" to govern the country for an interim period. [1]
In February 2008, a group known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula–Soldiers Brigade of Yemen (AQAP–SBY, SBY) announced its presence through a statement posted on an Islamist website. [31] The statement claimed the attack on the Belgian tourist convoy the previous month, as well as the Marib car bombing in July 2007 and the oil facility ...