Press TV - A Black Hawk helicopter, belonging to the United Arab Emirate (UAE), has crashed in southern Yemen, killing four of its crew. According to Yemen's official Saba news agency, the chopper crashed in the Amqeel area of Ar Rawdah district in the south-central Yemeni province of Shabwah on Friday afternoon. The general command of the ...

Last Friday, Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels dissolved Yemens parliament and set up a five-member presidential council to form a transitional government to govern Yemen for the next two years. The steps were taken to fill a power vacuum after President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and Prime Minister Khalid Bahah resigned at the end of January. Their resignations ...

[caption id="attachment_41112" align="alignright" width="161"] Flags of Iran and Yemen[/caption] Tehran, March 1, IRNA A delegation of Yemeni governmental official arrived in Tehran with a private airplane on Sunday afternoon. This 15-member delegation which is comprised of deputy ministers of the Yemeni government will reportedly stay in Tehran ...

A senior Iranian diplomat says Yemen's fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi has plunged the country into chaos by declaring a separate government in the southern part of the country. Sanaa is Yemens official and historical capital, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, said on Monday,adding,...

[caption id="attachment_156061" align="alignright" width="208"] Former Yemeni Prime Minister Khalid Bahah (C-L) sits with ex-Foreign Minister Abdullah Al-Saidi (C-R) and aides at his house in Sanaa on March 16, 2015 after the Ansarullah movement agreed to free him and all his cabinet ministers after nearly two months of house arrest.[/caption] The ...

[caption id="attachment_155717" align="alignright" width="206"] Iraq's President Fuad Masum, left, is greeted by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as he arrives at the Climate Summit 2014 at U.N. headquarters, Sept. 23, 2014.[/caption] ISTANBULTehrans growing sway in the Middle East is stoking Sunni Muslim fears in the region. From Sunni monarchs ...

[caption id="attachment_154209" align="alignright" width="176"] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber on Capitol Hill, March 3, 2015.CREDIT: REUTERS/GARY CAMERON[/caption] So it finally happened. After weeks ofacrimony and politicking, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered ...

[caption id="attachment_70962" align="alignright" width="203"] An Iranian airline Mahan Air plane at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, September 19, 2011. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl[/caption] An Iranian flight has landed in Yemen's capital, Sanaa, a day after officials from the Shi'ite-militia-controlled city signed an aviation agreement with Tehran. An ...

While Irans march toward a nuclear bomb has provokeda major clash between the White House and Congress, Irans march toward conventional domination of the Arab world has been largely overlooked. In Washington, that is. The Arabs have noticed. And the pro-American ones, the Gulf Arabs in particular, are deeply worried. This week, Iranian-backed Houthi ...

Thousands of Houthi protesters have taken to the streets of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, to condemn the US and Israeli policies toward the Arab country. The protesters, who held the rally after Friday prayers, denounced the United States and Israel for what they called meddling in Yemeni affairs. The protesters also expressed their opposition to ...