YEMEN Press Agency

Congress fails to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia

SANAA, Jan. 13 (YPA) - Despite the ongoing controversy over US military assistance to Saudi Arabia, Congress has failed to block the sale of air-to-air missiles to Riyadh and to prohibit some support for the Saudi war in Yemen, the Arms…

Hodeida: UN team visits Al-Salief and Ras Issa ports

HODEIDA, Jan. 12 (YPA) - A United Nations team led by UN patrol commander inspected on Wednesday the conditions at the ports of Al-Salif and Ras Issa as part of visits by UN representatives to the province's ports. During his visit to a…

Powerful explosion leaves several dead in Somalia

MOGADISHU, Jan. 12 (YPA) - Several people were killed on Wednesday in a suicide car bomb blast in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, AFP reported citing officials. The attack was claimed by the Al-Shabab extremist group, which said in a brief…

Iraq: US logistics convoy targeted in Qadisiyah

BAGHDAD, Jan. 12 (YPA) - Iraqi news sources reported that that the Iraqi resistance factions were able to target a US military logistics convoy two times in Al-Qadisiyah Governorate on Tuesday.  According to Sabereen News, a US military…