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2026-10-14 19:13
Yemen attacks Aramco sites and Riyadh airport
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) said on Wednesday it had targeted Saudi Aramco facilities in Dhahran, King Khalid International Airport and an Aramco refinery in Riyadh. It said they launched ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and drones.
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2026-10-14 18:50
By staff writer
Saudi Arabia’s billions in arms fail to buy security
TEHRAN - Saudi Arabia spends tens of billions of dollars on arms every year, but is struggling to protect key assets such as airports, refineries and pipelines from missiles and drones fired by Ansarallah, also called the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF).
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2026-10-13 21:11
By Ali Minabi
Can Saudi Arabia find a viable path out of Yemen?
TEHRAN – Saudi Arabia is once again testing its options for dealing with Ansarallah, hoping that what failed the first time might succeed the next.
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2026-10-12 20:34
By staff writer
Yemen Leaves Riyadh Grounded
Repeated strikes close Riyadh airport and shatter Saudi air defenses as Ansarallah enforces its 'blockade for blockade' doctrine
TEHRAN — Riyadh’s airport has been hit five times since Tuesday, October 6, by Saudi authorities’ own count, and the government cannot promise a sixth will not come. On Saturday, a missile struck King Khalid International Airport, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 300, according to the kingdom. On Sunday, another projectile set Terminal 4 on fire. On Monday, the Saudi civil aviation authority extended the shutdown.
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2026-10-11 21:55
By Ali Minabi
Syria between potential intervention in Yemen and domestic crises
TEHRAN – The costs and risks of Syrian intervention in Yemen could begin to mount from the moment a decision is made.
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2026-10-11 21:52
By Batool Subeiti
Yemen breaking the blockade and beginning a new phase
LONDON – How Ansarallah succeeded in breaking the Saudi-imposed air blockade on Yemen is worthy of attention. The process began with an Ansarallah delegation’s trip to Tehran to attend the funeral of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, who was assassinated in a joint U.S.-Israeli air raid on his office on February 28.
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2026-10-10 20:43
By staff writer
Yemen hits Riyadh airport again as Saudi flights collapse
TEHRAN — Riyadh’s airport was hit again on Saturday, two days after Yemeni missiles killed three Saudis there. Regional officials told the Associated Press that air traffic stopped and the airport was evacuated.
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2026-10-09 22:17
By staff writer
Saudi Arabia will never break Yemen’s resistance: Ansarallah leader
TEHRAN — Speaking on the tenth anniversary of the Saudi airstrike on Sanaa’s Great Hall, Ansarallah leader Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi declared Thursday that Riyadh’s decade-long war to subjugate Yemen has collapsed into a strategic failure.
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2026-10-05 21:32
Ansarallah sets Aramco sites ablaze as mercenaries commit war crimes in Yemen
TEHRAN — Yemeni armed forces fired a coordinated salvo of heavy ballistic missiles and long-range attack drones deep into the Saudi interior on Monday and Sunday, striking major Saudi Aramco installations in Jeddah, Riyadh, and the Khurais oil field.
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2026-10-05 19:28
By Ali Minabi
Behind Hamas’s offer to mediate between Yemen and Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN – Many assumed that Hamas’s offer to mediate between Yemen and Saudi Arabia was primarily an attempt to avoid choosing sides.
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2026-10-03 20:17
Aramco facility in Riyadh comes under attack
TEHRAN – A large plume of smoke and fire was seen rising in the vicinity of an Aramco facility in Riyadh on Saturday, a witness told Reuters.
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2026-10-02 21:06
By Matin Jamshidi
Trump talking his own imagination about Iran
TEHRAN – Trump has claimed that Iran would have “wiped” Israel and Saudi Arabia “off the face of the planet” with nuclear bombs if he had not been president.
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2026-09-30 19:06
Ansarallah’s gains could reverberate beyond Saudi Arabia
TEHRAN - In a commentary published on its website, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said that victories by Yemen’s Ansarallah forces against Saudi-backed forces have brought them within 80 miles of Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, which houses the United States’ only permanent and largest military base on the African continent.
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2026-09-30 15:44
Tel Aviv-bound flight makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after 'pilot clash’
Some reports say one of the pilots tried to crash the passenger plane
An Israel-bound flight made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after sending a hijacking alert, reportedly plummeting 17,000 feet in two minutes.
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2026-09-27 20:51
Saudi warplanes bomb Yemeni marketplace, killing and wounding civilians
TEHRAN — Saudi fighter jets bombed a crowded civilian marketplace in southwestern Yemen on Sunday morning. According to preliminary reports, the attack killed at least seven people and wounded at least 43 others. Several children were among the casualties.
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2026-09-26 20:45
By staff writer
US intelligence says Saudi Arabia has not abandoned its nuclear weapons ambitions
TEHRAN — Classified U.S. intelligence submitted to Congress reveals that Saudi Arabia has not abandoned plans to develop nuclear weapons, according to a Washington Post report citing American officials.
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2026-09-21 21:14
By staff writer
Ansarallah consolidates Red Sea control as Trump rejects MBS’ desperate appeals
TEHRAN — The Saudi campaign of aggression in Yemen is unraveling on the western coast. In a lightning offensive that swept through the coastal plain, Yemeni forces under Ansarallah command have captured the port city of Mokha, Mayyun Island, and strategic highlands in Lahij province.
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2026-09-21 21:09
By Xavier Villar
The Saudi crisis
MADRID — The writing of history rests on the selective erasure of certain pasts, and of the artefacts bearing witness to them. From the omission of archive documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, every act of destruction is also an act of state-building.
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2026-09-20 20:33
Riyadh's vulnerability exposed: report
Saudi Arabia and the United States do not have a clear plan to fight back against the Yemeni Armed Force (YAF) who took control of a strategically important island on the Red Sea.
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2026-09-19 21:13
By staff writer
Flames engulf Riyadh airport fuel tank as Saudi crisis deepens
TEHRAN — Fire climbed the side of what was reported to be an Aramco fuel tank near King Khalid International Airport on Saturday morning. Thick plumes of black smoke poured into the Riyadh sky. Residents filmed the blaze from apartment balconies while commercial flight trackers showed the aviation hub completely paralyzed.
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2026-09-19 21:10
By Ali Minabi
How has Yemen’s role reshaped the regional conflict?
TEHRAN – Yemen, which was long viewed as the weakest link in the Arab world, is now influencing shipping and energy and holds one of the most sensitive cards in West Asia.
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2026-09-18 16:10
Iran ends the American Middle East: analysis
‘Trump’s debacle in Iran has shattered the illusion of American military omnipotence’
TEHRAN - Marc Lynch, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, says the failed U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has put an end to “the American Middle East.”
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2026-09-16 20:28
Yemeni Armed Forces strongly denies claim of attack on Mecca
TEHRAN - The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) issued a statement on Wednesday strongly dismissing claims by the Saudi Kingdom that its forces had launched a drone attack on the holy city of Mecca on Tuesday evening.
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2026-09-15 00:32
By staff writer
9/11 Families United chair calls out Trump over Saudi cover-up, Iran war narrative
TEHRAN — The 25th anniversary of September 11 stripped away any lingering illusion of political unity in Washington. At Ground Zero, families of the victims directly confronted the American political establishment over its quarter-century shielding of Saudi Arabia.
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2026-09-13 20:54
By staff writer
Ansarallah widens Yemen’s western-coast gains despite Saudi airstrikes
TEHRAN — A massive ground offensive by the Yemeni Armed Forces just cleared Saudi-backed troops from 5,400 square kilometers of territory. Seven coalition military divisions dissolved in a matter of days.
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2026-09-13 20:51
By Ali Minabi
Hormuz Strait and Bab al-Mandab: Two strategic chokepoints
TEHRAN — The current link between the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab is just a geographic connection between two maritime points.
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2026-09-12 20:53
By staff writer
Iraqi Resistance rejects Saudi pipeline accusation as ‘an honor we do not claim’
TEHRAN — The Islamic Resistance in Iraq has formally rejected Saudi allegations blaming it for recent drone strikes on the kingdom’s East-West crude pipeline. The resistance movement dismissed the charge on Saturday as “an honor we do not claim” and warned that the accusations are part of “malicious Zionist-American plots” meant to trap Iraq in a regional crisis.
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2026-09-12 20:53
By Xavier Villar
Bab el-Mandeb under Ansarallah’s control as oil crisis deepens
MADRID — In 2011, during the so-called "Arab Spring," the grievances of the Yemeni population reached a critical point, triggering mass protests demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had ruled the country for more than thirty years.
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2026-09-11 20:21
By Ali Minabi
Ansar Allah Now Commands Bab al-Mandab Strait
Yemeni forces secure 5,400 km²; Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree confirms ban on Saudi vessels remains active
TEHRAN – The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) have seized control of the country’s western coast, further consolidating their hold over the vital Bab al-Mandab Strait after capturing more than 5,400 square kilometers of territory from Saudi Arabia.
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2026-09-08 21:47
Yemeni forces strike Saudi facilities in retaliatory blitz
TEHRAN – The Yemeni Armed Forces announced the successful execution of a large-scale offensive targeting critical Saudi economic and military installations.