Showing posts with the label Yemen
Yemen: Houthis Sentence Baha'i Man to Death
Yemen: Huthi court sentences 3 to death after enforced disappearance and alleged torture
Yemen urged to release man sentenced to death over Bahá’í faith
Ancient temple left neglected as Yemen war threatens history
Along a narrow road in Yemen choked by natural gas tankers and heavily armed soldiers lies an ancient temple neglected and threatened in a nation now at war. A soldier allied to Yemen's internati…
Iran Executed Three Juvenile Offenders in January
US judge blocks latest Trump travel restrictions to the US from eight countries
A federal judge in Hawaii blocked President Donald Trump's latest bid to impose restrictions on citizens from eight countries entering the United States, which had been set to take effect this we…
'Deplorable': Denouncing United States Vote Against Death Penalty Ban at the United Nations
U.S. opposes UN resolution against death penalty for same-sex relations
Blasphemy laws on the books in one-third of nations: study
Houthi justice: Yemenis flock in thousands to Sanaa public executions
USCIRF: Pakistan & Iran have the worst blasphemy laws in the world
Yemeni executed for child rape and murder
Donald Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Travel from Six Terror-Tied Countries
President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order blocking the arrival of most travelers from six conflict-prone countries for 90 days, and freezing the inflow of refugees from any country for …
Saudi Arabia violates Yemeni ceasefire within 24 hours of truce
Yemen’s foreign minister expressed alarm after reported breaches minutes after a ceasefire went into effect at 2100 GMT on Sunday in the country, just a week before the upcoming UN-sponsored peace ta…
U.S. Air Raids And Drone Strikes Continue In Yemen
At least eight al-Qaeda militants and three civilians were killed in US drone strikes in Yemen, media reported Sunday. The US drones conducted two air raids against a training camp of Yemen's al…
U.S. Approves Targeted Killing of American Cleric
The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from e…
CIA may target first U.S. citizen
No U.S. citizen has ever been on the CIA's target list, which mainly names al-Qaida leaders, including Osama bin Laden, according to current and former U.S. officials. But that is expected to c…
U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush gave the CIA, and later the military, authority to kill U.S. citizens abroad if strong evidence existed that an American was involved in organizing or carrying out …
The Yemen Hidden Agenda: Behind the Al-Qaeda Scenarios, A Strategic Oil Transit Chokepoint
by F. William Engdahl For some months the world has seen a steady escalation of US military involvement in Yemen, a dismally poor land adjacent to Saudi Arabia on its north, the Red Sea on its west…