White House calls Yemen ‘model’ for ISIS fight, as security deteriorates
The White House insisted Monday that the U.S. counterterrorism strategy in Yemen is a model for the fight against the Islamic State -- despite the country being engulfed by a violent political crisis that last week led the Obama administration to remove ...
Saudi Arabia warns of more Yemen violence
Saudi Arabia has warned that neighbouring Yemen risks sliding towards further violence, which could damage regional security, after Houthi rebels overran the capital last week. Prince Saud al-Faisal, the kingdom’s foreign minister, called at the United ...
Attack in Yemen Aimed at U.S. Embassy
On Saturday, Sept. 27, a rocket attack in Yemen was reportedly aimed at the U.S. Embassy. An Al-Qaeda sub-group known as Al-Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) reportedly claimed responsibility on a social media website. Although the attack did not ...
Yemen child marriage: minister calls for ban after death of eight-year-old girl
Source: Guardian Country: Yemen Huriya Mashhoor urges parliament to set minimum age of marriage at 18 as international condemnation intensifies Yemen's human rights minister has vowed to ban child marriage after the reported death of an eight-year-old girl on her wedding night. Huriya Mashhoor said ...
The Lunar Eclipse of October 2014 – The great clear out begins…
It’s eclipse time again folks!! It seems only yesterday that we were experiencing the spring ones early this year, and now in just over a week’s time the autumnal ones are coming along. You will remember the last Lunar eclipse very clearly I suspect, it was a quite brutal one based around a very sev ...
