Qaeda-linked Yemen group claims to kill Houthis
Speaking via Twitter, the Ansar al-Sharia movement declared that several Houthis had been killed and injured in the attack. By Ali Oweida SANAA, Yemen An Al-Qaeda-linked group on Thursday said it had attacked military vehicles carrying Shiite Houthi ...
Drone kills six Qaeda suspects in Yemen ‘war on terror’
SANAA: A drone strike killed six Al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen’s east Monday, the first such raid since government troops launched their biggest offensive on the jihadists in two years, tribesmen said. In the capital Sanaa, the US embassy announced the ...
Shiite Rebel Seizure of Yemen Capital a 'Gift' for Tehran?
The lightning takeover by Shiite rebels of Yemen's capital this week is a potential boost for Iran against its rival Saudi Arabia, while the U.S. is preoccupied with fighting jihadists, analysts said. It is still unclear what the links are between the ...
Who benefits from Yemen’s Houthi crisis?
It was reported Sunday that the Yemeni government and Houthi Shiite rebels signed an agreement calling for the formation of a new government in an attempt to end fierce clashes in the embattled capital Sanaa. However, analysts are already saying the ...
Yemen frees Iranian guards with Al Houthi links
Aden: Yemen has freed two Iranians said to be members of the Islamic republic’s elite Revolutionary Guards who were accused of links to Al Houthi rebels, according to sources. The two men were released on Wednesday thanks to mediation by Oman, the Yemeni ...
Obama to UN: “The United States Will Never Be At War With Islam.” Somebody Needs To Tell ISIS.
Yesterday, United States President Barack Hussein Obama went before an assembly of representatives from the entire world and proved that denial is not just a river in Egypt. More on that in a moment. Let’s look’s at some of Obama’s past, to find out why he said what he said…when he said it. From age ...
Legality of killing other people's enemies in other lands
Nick Clegg speaks about the plea from the Iraq government to use our warplanes to attack the I-state insurgency. It seems to me that we are the only major military power to agonise about such a decision. The United States has no qualms about rocketing Yemen or even nominally allied Pakistan in pursu ...
Top 100 Richest Indians: India’s Pharma Sector Mints Billionaires
Pharma is on a roll. More than a fifth of the 100 richest billionaires in India have pharma and health care riches, among them half of the eight newcomers, such as Hasmukh Chudgar, whose Intas Pharmaceuticals was recently valued by Temasek at close to $1.4 billion. Entrepreneur P. V. Ramaprasad Redd ...
Rusya: IŞİD’i ABD ve batılı ülkeler kendi çıkarları için yarattı
Saint Petersburg’da Kanal-5 adlı bir televizyona demeç veren Rusya Dışişleri Bakanı Sergey Lavrov, Batılı ülkeleri terörist grupları Ortadoğu’da karşı oldukları hükümetlere karşı desteklemekle suçladı. Rusya Dışişleri Bakanı Sergey Lavrov, “Şu an IŞİD, Amerika’nın en büyük düşmanı olarak gösteriliyo ...
Consequences of a very different sort.
Another in the endless series of the strange affairs of man! Regulars will know that frequently I republish essays from the stables of TomDispatch. Many of you will ask why I don’t doubt. What have these essays got to do with learning from our closest animal companion; the dog? Well, the answer is t ...
