Yemen

SANAA, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's Houthi rebels said that they fired a rocket towards a government military training camp in neighboring province of Marib on Sunday evening, the Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported.

"The rocket targeted the operation room in Tadawin camp in northern Marib, killing at least eight soldiers and injuring seven others," the television quoted a statement from the group's military spokesman Yahya Sarea as saying.

SANAA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Yemen's health authorities on Saturday launched a polio vaccination campaign for more than 4 million children in the north of the war-torn country.

The three-day campaign is supported by the World Health Organization, the UNICEF and other international aid agencies, the local health authorities said in a statement.

The door-to-door immunization targets children under the age of five.

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - The Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi forces in Yemen carried out a series of air raids on barracks used by the Iran-aligned group in and around the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Friday, according to local residents.

There was no immediate word on possible casualties.

The reported air strikes came after a Houthi missile attack on Saudi oil facilities in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Saudi-led coalition forces intervened in Yemen’s war in March 2015 to restore the Yemeni government ousted from power in Sanaa by the Houthis in late 2014.

19 Nov 2020; MEMO: Yemen' Houthi group yesterday denied a report published by Reuters claiming that Saudi Arabia had informed the group that it would sign a UN proposal for a nationwide ceasefire in return for creating a buffer zone along the kingdom's borders.

04 Nov 2020; MEMO: The Southern Transitional Council (STC) yesterday established an office in Socotra island to register Yemeni workers coming from outside the island as “foreigner” workers, Anadolu news agency reported.

02 Nov 2020; MEMO: Yemen’s former Minister of Transport, Saleh Al-Jabwani, on Saturday accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of bribing a “high-ranking” Yemeni official to approve the bombing of pro-government forces in the city of Aden in August 2019 in what later became known as the Al- Alam massacre.

28 Oct 2020; MEMO: Gunmen shot dead a Houthi official in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday, a rare killing of a civilian administrator in the city controlled by the armed movement.

Hassan Zaid, minister of sports and youth in the Houthi administration, died in hospital from his wounds after gunmen opened fire on his car in an area of the capital that houses embassies, two sources close to his family told Reuters.

25 Oct 2020; MEMO: The military spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi movement said in a tweet on Saturday it had targeted the Jizan and Abha airports and the Khamis Mushait base in Saudi Arabia with drones, Reuters reports.

Earlier on Saturday and in two statements on Friday, the Saudi-led coalition had said it had intercepted and destroyed three explosive-laden drones from the Houthis aimed towards the southern region of Saudi Arabia.

(AP) --- The Guantanamo detainees were promised they were being sent to a Muslim country for rehabilitation that would help integrate them into society, opening the way to jobs, money, and marriage, according to their lawyers and families.

It was a lie.

Instead, the detainees -- 18 Yemenis and one Russian, swept up from Afghanistan and Pakistan after the Sept. 11 attacks -- have languished in custody in the United Arab Emirates for as long as five years, their families and lawyers tell The Associated Press.

10 Oct 2020; MEMO: The Houthis have banned and criminalised the use of WhatsApp in the southwestern Ibb governorate, which is under the movement’s control.

This came according to a communiqué issued on Thursday evening by the prosecutor of Jiblah District in Ibb, one of the most densely populated Yemeni governorates.

The statement announced that “anyone who uses the WhatsApp application will be arrested” and using the application will be considered “an indecent assault”.