YEMEN Press Agency

Taliban claims to control of 85% of Afghanistan

SANAA, Jul. 09 (YPA) - Taliban movement said on Friday that it took control over 85 percent of Afghan territory as the insurgent group launches an offensive in parallel with the withdrawal of US troops from the country, although it cannot…

Child injured due to cluster bomb blast in Hajjah

HAJJAH, Jul. 09 (YPA) – A Child  was wounded on late Thursday  in an explosion of a cluster bomb earlier dropped by Saudi-led coalition warplanes earlier on Bakil al-Mir district in Yemen’s northwest province of Hajjah , a local official…

Ahmad Jibril, PFLP founder, dies in Syria at 83

SANAA, Jul. 08 (YPA) - Ahmad Jibril, founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command organization, died Wednesday at the age of 83 in a Damascus hospital. Jibril founded the PFLP-GV in 1968 as a breakaway…

One solider killed, another wounded in Dhalea

DHALEA, Jul. 08 (YPA) - One soldier was killed and another wounded in an armed attack in the central Yemeni city of Dhalea . Local sources said gunmen assassinated the soldier Saddiq Mohammed Mohsen and one of his colleagues while they were…