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US sends troops to bolster Saudi defences after attack
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and missile defences after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities, which Washington has squarely blamed on Iran. The Pentagon said the deployment would
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Saudi-led coalition strikes north of Hodeidah in Yemen
DUBAI: The Saudi-led coalition today launched a military operation north of Yemen’s port city of Hodeidah against what it described as “legitimate military targets”, an incident that could aggravate regional tensions after a weekend attack on Saudi oil installations. The
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US: Saudi oil attacks came from southwest Iran
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: The US believes the attacks that crippled Saudi Arabian oil facilities last weekend originated in southwestern Iran, a US official told Reuters yesterday, an assessment that further increases tension in the Middle East. Three officials, speaking to Reuters on
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Trump on Saudi oil facilities attack: I don’t want a war
WASHINGTON/DUBAI: US President Donald Trump said yesterday that it looked like Iran was behind attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia but stressed he did not want to go to war, as the attacks sent oil prices soaring and raised
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Saudi Aramco attacks: What we know so far
WASHINGTON: An attack on Saudi Arabia that triggered the biggest jump in oil prices in almost 30 years was carried out with Iranian weapons, a Saudi-led coalition said yesterday, as President Donald Trump said the US was “locked and loaded”
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Attacks on Saudi oil facilities knock out half the kingdom’s supply
RIYADH/DUBAI/LONDON: Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it attacked two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry yesterday, knocking out more than half of the Kingdom’s output, in a move expected to send oil prices soaring and increase tensions
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UN: About 350,000 people displaced in Yemen
SANAA: Some 350,000 people have been displaced by the ongoing conflict in Yemen so far in 2019, Anadolu Agency reported, quoting the UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Thursday. “In 2019 alone, nearly 350,000 people have been displaced,” the
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Saudi-led coalition moves against separatists in Yemen
ADEN: The Saudi-led coalition intervened in Aden on Sunday in support of the Yemeni government after southern separatists effectively took over the port city, fracturing the alliance that had been battling the Iran-aligned Houthi movement. The infighting, which broke out
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One killed, seven injured in Abha airport attack
ABHA: One person was killed and seven others injured on Sunday when Yemen’s Houthi rebels attacked Abha airport in south-west Saudi Arabia, a Saudi-led alliance fighting the Iran-linked rebels said. The dead person was a Syrian man, alliance spokesman Colonel
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Malaysia condemns attack on Saudi airport
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia has come out strongly against the missile attack on the Abha International Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia’s Asir Province on Wednesday, which left 26 people injured. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said the attack was an unacceptable
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