Shi’ite Houthi rebels charge that US fighter jets bombed their positions in north Yemen, as the UK’s Daily Telegraph reports that Washington has ordered Special Forces teams to the country.
The new annual report from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies finds that Iraq is the Arab world’s worst rights abuser for a second year running.
Egypt has become a police state where citizens receive no protection from torture, the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) charges in a new report.
Coptic Christian shop owners in the Egyptian town of Farshoot are refusing to reopen their stores until the government compensates them for damages in two days of rioting over the weekend.
After months of dialogue, the Turkish government announced a plan to help end the 25-year conflict with a Kurdish separatist movement that has cost more than 40,000 lives.
The Defense Ministry in Sanaa denied local media reports that Saudi jets struck within Yemeni territory after Houthi rebels seized territory along the kingdom’s southern border.
The New York Times reports from Yemen’s Hadramawt, where a Sufi school is attempting to reclaim the area’s reputation from the media moniker of “ancestral homeland” of Osama bin Laden.
The Yemeni army entered into its fifth day of deadly fighting against Zaydi Shi’ite insurgents in the north of the country.
Yemeni security forces opened fire on thousands of protesters in Zinjibar, provincial capital of Abyan in the country’s restive south, killing 12 and wounding scores of others.
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The Abu Dhabi authorities have detained a brother of the president and opened a criminal investigation of a videotape in which he appears to torture an Afghan grain merchant.
