February 2018

YemenExtra M.A. Foreign Minister Hisham Sharaf Abdullah sent a cable of condolences to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov over the Russian plane crash in the outskirts of Moscow. Sharaf expressed his deep condolences to the…

YemenExtra Y.A A top Iraqi official says the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group’s leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is “alive” and is being treated in a field hospital in Syria, less than a year after sources…

YemenExtra M.A. Seven civilians were killed on Monday evening in an initial toll when an airstrike conducted by the Saudi-led coalition hit Taiz governorate, a military official told YemenExtra.  The warplane targeted a water well…

YemenExtra Y.A US President Donald Trump has said Israel’s illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territories have "complicated" the so-called peace process and urged "care" over the issue. In an interview with Israel Hayom…

YemenExtra M.A. Nine civilians, including five women, were killed when the Saudi-led coalition conducted 44 air strikes on various Yemeni governorate over the past 24 hours, officials and medics told YemenExtra on Monday.  In the…

YemenExtra M.A. An agitated Israeli military has reportedly deployed anti-missile systems to the Syrian border, a day after it lost an advanced F-16 warplane in Syria's first serious air defense operation to confront Israeli…

YemenExtra M.A. Yemen's former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has finally broken his silence, stating that the United Arab Emirates is attempting to undermine stability in Yemen. Hadi, who is reportedly under house arrest in…

YemenExtra M.A. Lebanese President Michel ‘Aoun conducted an interview with Egypt’s ON Live, Monday, in order to discuss a number of topics affecting the country. The primary focus of the interview, however, was his latest meeting with…

YemenExtra M.A. The European Union is deeply concerned with the military escalation in Syria amid Israel’s strikes and urges the sides to show restraint, European External Action Service’s (EEAS) spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said Monday.…

YemenExtra By:Zine al-Abdien Othman Translated by: Shefa'a.A. Since the military campaign launched by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen since March, 2015, the Yemeni missile capabilities increased significantly and began…