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Yemen has asked the U.S. for training and intelligence support for the Yemeni armed forces and coast guard, as well as continued political, economic and humanitarian support, but their foreign minister made no mention of military support in a briefing to reporters Wednesday.Afrah Alzouba, Yemen’s first female foreign minister, spoke in a briefing on several…

Saudi Arabia will continue implementing its economic goals and investing in energy infrastructure, industrial capacity and international partnerships despite the challenges presented by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said Monday.Speaking at the World Petroleum Congress in Riyadh, the minister said Saudi Arabia had overcome major challenges throughout…

Vice President JD Vance appeared to backtrack on U.S. demands on Iranian nuclear enrichment Tuesday, saying Iran needed to make a “meaningful” reduction of its capacity, but not suggesting it should be required to completely give up enrichment, as President Trump has previously. Iranian nuclear enrichment has been a key issue for the White House, with…

Iran’s parliament has completed a committee-level consideration of a proposed bill that would establish what lawmakers frame as the future Iranian management of the Strait of Hormuz, including the imposition of fees on commercial vessels using the vital waterway.Hassan Ghashghavi, spokesman for the parliament’s National Security Commission, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency the proposed…

President Trump is stuck when it comes to deciding between further war and negotiations, according to Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, the head of Iran’s influential Supreme National Security Council.”We stated our conditions, but Trump is incapable of decision-making,” Rezaei said Tuesday during a meeting with Azerbaijan’s deputy prime minister, Shahin Mustafayev. “Trump is trapped in…

Tarek al-Salami, aged 7, sat in a diaper, looking frail. Normally, the malnutrition and diarrhea that weakened his tiny frame would have been treated within a few days, but nothing is normal in Yemen anymore.Tarek’s father carried him on foot from the southwest city of Mokha as the Iran-backed Houthi rebels swept in this month,…

One day before Thursday’s state visit, top U.S. and Chinese economic officials agreed to extend their truce on tariffs for two months, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News.That deal — struck last fall in Busan, South Korea — was initially set to expire Nov. 10. It lowered tariffs levied by both countries, paused restrictions…

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen will attack U.S. interests in the Middle East if Washington intervenes in the conflict in support of Saudi Arabia, including by attempting to thwart Houthi efforts to blockade Saudi shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a military adviser for the group told the AFP news agency Wednesday.”If America dares…

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday the United Kingdom has agreed to provide limited military support to Saudi Arabia to repel attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.Burnham told reporters as he flew to the United Nations General Assembly in New York that he had agreed the Royal Air Force will provide air-to-air refueling…

Thousands of people in Yemen are fleeing across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the African country of Djibouti as the war in the Middle East expands and the Iran-backed Houthi militia fights Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces.Nearly 3,000 people, more than half women and children, have fled Yemen in less than a week amid intensified fighting…