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Yemen update 10/26\2015.. relentless attacks
Saudi jets continue relentless attacks on Yemenis
98 People Killed In Saudi Attacks On Yemen’s Aqban Island
Yemenis stage rally to denounce UN inaction on Saudi atrocities
Yemen suicide bomber kills 2 pro-government fighters in Aden
A suicide bomber killed two anti-rebel militiamen at a checkpoint in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden on Monday, security and medical officials said.
The attack was in Aden’s Mansoura neighborhood, they said, adding that it was the first suicide bombing targeting fighters from the southern separatist movement, currently allied with the central government. The bomber was wearing a suicide belt, they added, and body parts and the dead lay strewn about in the streets.
Political analyst Mansour Hayel said the suicide bombing risked sparking a fresh round of violence in the city, where al-Qaida has recently made its presence felt.
One dead in Saudi mosque suicide blast near Yemen
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shiite mosque in Najran in southern Saudi Arabia on Monday in an attack claimed by ISIS, killing at least one person and wounding several others, the Saudi interior ministry said.
The ministry’s first official word on the attack, carried by the official SPA news agency and Al Arabiya television, followed earlier media reports that three people had died in the blast.
The attack on the al-Mashhad mosque, attended by followers of the Ismaili Shiite branch of Islam, occurred during evening prayers, an interior ministry spokesperson told Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya.
“As the Magreb prayer ended and the worshipers came out of the main door, a man entered the mosque and blew himself up,” Mohammed al-Askar, a doctor from Najran told Reuters, adding that it was the first time a Shiite Ismaili mosque had been targeted.
Ismaili Shiites are a majority in the Najran area but a minority in mainly Sunni Saudi Arabia.
The kingdom has been hit by a spate of deadly shooting and bomb attacks, many of them laid at the door of ISIS.
Monday’s operation targeted “the rejectionist Ismailis”, said a statement carried by the group posted on Twitter, referring to the Ismaili Shiite sect.
The militant group is bitterly opposed to Gulf Arab rulers and is seen as trying to stir up sectarian confrontation on the Arabian peninsula to bring about the overthrow of the ruling dynasties.
It has urged young Saudi Sunnis to attack targets including Shiites.
In mid-October, five people were killed after a gunman opened fire on a Shiite Muslim meeting hall in the Eastern city of Saihat.
Two Saudi soldiers killed by Yemeni forces
http://en.abna24.com/service/middle-east-west-asia/archive/2015/10/26/717004/story.html
At least two Saudi soldiers lost their lives when Yemeni forces carried out a retaliatory attack against a military base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Jizan as Riyadh presses ahead with its aerial bombardment campaign against Yemen.
On Monday morning, Yemeni army troopers backed by fighters from Popular Committees launched a barrage of artillery rounds at Ramazeh camp, leaving two Saudi soldiers dead and two military vehicles destroyed.
Yemeni forces also fired a number of rockets at other Saudi military bases in the Jabal al-Doud, Qaim Zubaid and al-Khobe areas of Jizan, located 967 kilometers (601 miles) southwest of Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, though no casualties were reported.
Separately, Saudi fighters conducted several aerial attacks against various areas in the city of Sirwah, which lies about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, on Monday morning. There were no immediate reports of possible casualties and the extent of damage caused.
Saudi fighter jets also struck a water tanker as it was travelling on the road linking Saqin and Haidan districts of Yemen’s northwestern province of Sa’ada.
Additionally, Saudi jets pounded the al-Labnat district in the northern Yemeni province of al-Jawf, located approximately 110 kilometers (68 miles) north of Sana’a, but there were no words about possible casualties.
Yemen TV : Yemeni army launched Anti-Ship missile destroying Saudi warship
https://www.rt.com/uk/319728-saudi-corbyn-respect-row/
Corbyn ‘breached’ Saudi-UK special relationship – Riyadh’s ambassador to London
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has breached the respect and trust between the UK and Saudi Arabia, a move which may have “serious repercussions,” the Gulf Kingdom’s ambassador to Britain has warned.
Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz aired his views in the Telegraph newspaper in the wake of a row over UK contracts.
He warned that there had been “an alarming change in the way Saudi Arabia is discussed in Britain” and that the country’s role as the center of Islam and as a key security partner were of “little concern to those who have fomented this change.”
Abdulaziz said the new trend could have “potentially serious repercussions that could damage the mutually beneficial strategic partnership that our countries have so long enjoyed.”
The ambassador singled out Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for his efforts to halt a contract to provide prison services to Saudi Arabia’s notorious jails.
“One recent example of this mutual respect being breached was when Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Opposition, claimed that he had convinced Prime Minister David Cameron to cancel a prison consultancy contract with Saudi Arabia worth £5.9 million [US$9 million],” Abdulaziz argued.
SNP MP: ‘Cameron, save Saudi boy from beheading’
Egyptian, Saudi foreign ministers ‘reaffirm accords’ over Syria and Yemen
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir, in Cairo for an hours-long visit, affirmed the ‘congruent stances’ of Egypt and Saudi Arabia on Syria, while adding that more discussion was needed.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry has reaffirmed the compatibility of visions between Cairo and Riyadh on the crises in Syria and Yemen, again quashing reports of discord between the two states over the region’s pressing conflicts.
“There has not been [any] chasm before. Our [stances] are compatible,” Shoukry told a presser in Cairo in reference to the two countries’ purportedly diverging interests on Syria.
Saudi Arabia has staunchly insisted on the ouster of President Bashar Al-Assad’s as a precondition for any future solution for Syria’s four-year-old civil war. Meanwhile, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has urged a political solution focused on fighting terrorism, as he made fighting Islamist extremism a main priority since coming to power last year.
Egypt has backed a recent intervention by Russia, an ally of Al-Assad, in Syria, saying the move will help eradicate the spread of terrorism in the war-torn country. Saudi Arabia, however, demanded Russia end its military strikes which it said have caused civilian casualties and failed to target militants.
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir, in Cairo for an hours-long visit, affirmed what he described as the “congruent stances” of both countries over the matter, while saying they “haven’t reached an agreement yet” and that more discussion on the issue was needed.
“We all want to preserve the country’s civil and military institution … We all seek security, stability and rebuilding [there],” he said.
Al-Jubeir was set to sit with President El-Sisi following the news conference this afternoon.
On Yemen, both officials said their countries are committed to stability and legitimate rule in the country.
Shoukry said quarterly-based consultations are planned between Cairo and Riyadh with the aim of reinforcing bilateral ties and cooperation on regional affairs.
Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil exporter, has emerged as a key backer of Egypt’s President El-Sisi and his government following the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, providing Cairo with billions of dollars in aid.
Both Egypt and Saudi are cooperating militarily in Yemen through a Saudi-led coalition of Arab states that has been pounding Shia Houthi rebels there from the air for six months.
Arab leaders had agreed in March to form a joint military force to counter security threats in the region and to intervene in troubled areas. They were due to ratify a protocol for the force in August, but the move has been postponed.
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