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The Morning Journal
April 21, 2018
Radad Alborati, a Yemeni-American, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York. Alborati's wife is stuck in war-torn Yemen after his years-long effort to bring her to the U.S. ended last month, when a U.S. consulate said she was ineligible for a waiver from President Donald Trump'sÃâà...
Economic Times
April 21, 2018
They were swallowed by costs of getting the family to visa interviews in Djibouti _ the U.S. embassy in Yemen closed because of the war _ and staying there during a five-month wait for his wife's denial, he said. "I never felt like that's the America I was dreaming about,'' says Alborati, 38, who followed anÃâà...
The National
April 12, 2018
Iran has transformed its embassy in Yemen into a military base, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday. The ministry condemned the move saying that Iran's interference had become the main source of instability in the Arab world's poorest nation. “Iran has made its embassy into a militaryÃâà...
Sputnik International
February 17, 2018
SANAA (Sputnik) - Houthi rebel movement has freed the member of the staff of the US Embassy in Yemen after a six-month detention, a source, close to the released diplomat, told Sputnik on Sunday. Osama Al-Ansi, the US Embassy's employee, was released on Saturday. The reasons for his detentionÃâà...
Daily Echo
February 12, 2018
Structured around thematic chapters, Building Stories features all of Design Engine's best known projects including 2008's RIBA International Award-winning British Embassy in Yemen and 2014's John Henry Brookes Building. The book will be available in all good bookstores and can also be ordered fromÃâà...
gulfnews.com
February 12, 2018
“We warmly welcomed more than 500,000 Yemenis in the kingdom when the Iran-backed Al Houthis expelled them from their country,” he said, adding that the Saudi embassy in Yemen has issued more than 40,000 visas to Yemenis over the last several months. On social media, Yemenis, who remained inÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
February 12, 2018
The US Embassy in Yemen has sacked 360 Yemeni employees three years after its closure in the capital, Sanaa, as the country's civil war continues. US Ambassador Matthew Toler sent a letter to the staff on 6 February saying that “new rules issued by the US State Department on embassies that haveÃâà...
Pakistan Today
February 11, 2018
ADEN: The United States has laid off 360 local staff in Yemen three years after closing its embassy as a civil war spread in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country. Ambassador Matthew Tueller wrote to workers saying new US State Department regulations about suspended embassies meant he couldÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
February 8, 2018
As many as 40,000 work visas have been issued to Yemeni citizens over the past six months to work in the kingdom, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Yemen, Mohammed al-Jaber, told Al Arabiya English in an interview on Thursday. Al-Jaber said that the Saudi embassy in Yemen is the only embassy thatÃâà...
Xinhua
December 13, 2017
A medic holds the body Ayah Muhammad Mansour, 7, recovered from under the rubble of a house destroyed by a Saudi-led air strike in Sanaa, Yemen. (Reuters Photo). SANAA, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- Russia has evacuated 18 diplomatic staff from Yemen's rebel-held capital Sanaa and shut its embassy dueÃâà...
Xinhua
December 3, 2017
SANAA, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- A fire ripped through the building of the Iranian embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday after being attacked by heavy weapons during clashes between the Houthis and loyalists of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Xinhua reporter on the scene witnessed.
Xinhua
December 3, 2017
Smoke billows behind a building in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on December 3, 2017, during clashes between Huthi rebels and supporters of Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh. (AFP Photo). SANAA, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- A fire ripped through the Iranian embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on SundayÃâà...
New York Times
January 7, 2016
TEHRAN — The already volatile showdown between Iran and Saudi Arabia escalated in Yemen on Thursday after the Iranians said their embassy had been hit by a Saudi airstrike, though witnesses said the building did not seem to have been struck. The Saudi-led campaign in Yemen carried out itsÃâà...
The Guardian
January 7, 2016
Iran has accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out airstrikes against the Iranian embassy in Yemen's capital, Sana'a, which it claimed left a number of guards wounded and damaged its diplomatic building, although witnesses said the compound was intact and Saudi officials described the claim as propaganda.
The Hindu
April 20, 2015
India's approach in evacuation process has been guided by the spirit of 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam' (the whole world is one), Ms. Swaraj said. In view of the worsening situation in Yemen's capital Sana'a, India has shifted its embassy to Djibouti, adjoining the war-torn country, after the “successful” conclusionÃâà...
Atlantic Council (blog)
December 31, 1999
... senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. After twenty-five years in the US Foreign Service, Khoury retired from the US Department of State in 2013 with the rank of minister counselor. Khoury served as deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Yemen (2004-2007).
