ADEN – Yemen’s Houthi movement on Sunday carried out a rare missile strike on a southern region that has seen renewed infighting between forces allied to a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia, three government sources said.
The attack on a military base in Abyan, which two of the sources said killed at least two soldiers and injured over 20, comes as the recognised government and a separatist group both mass fighters in the area while Riyadh moves to ease tensions.
The Southern Transitional Council (STC) has been vying with the Saudi-backed government for control of the south. The Houthis, who ousted the government from the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, in late 2014, largely hold the north.
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Saudi official in US for talks on Yemen, Iran, Khashoggi
Saudi Arabia s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman arrives at a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington, on Aug 29, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan)
07 Jul 2021 02:36AM (Updated:
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WASHINGTON: Saudi Arabia s deputy defence minister on Tuesday (Jul 6) became the highest-ranking Saudi envoy to visit Washington since Joe Biden became president in January and was holding talks with senior officials on the Yemen war and threats from Iran.
The minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, is the younger brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country s de facto ruler, who is accused by US intelligence of approving a 2018 operation in which Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, an allegation denied by Saudi Arabia
Saudi official in U.S. for talks on Yemen, Iran, Khashoggi
07/07/2021 1:09
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Saudi Arabia s deputy defense minister on Tuesday became the highest-ranking Saudi envoy to visit Washington since Joe Biden became president in January, and held talks with senior officials on the Yemen war and threats from Iran.
The minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, is the younger brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country s de facto ruler, who is accused by U.S. intelligence of approving a 2018 operation in which Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi was killed, an allegation denied by Saudi Arabia.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Khashoggi s death would also likely come up in the talks. The Trump White House had maintained strong ties with the crown prince despite Khashoggi s death at the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul.
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