Yemen

An informed Saudi source says the damages inflicted on the Aramco oil facilities in the recent Yemeni drone attacks are so massive that it is not clear when the country's oil output can return to normal.

Iraq denied reports alleging that its country was the site from where Yemeni drones were launched to attack Saudi oil installations in retaliation for the kingdom’s deadly war.

Attacks by 10 Yemeni drones against two plants at the heart of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry have knocked out more than half of the Kingdom’s output.

Several drones flown by Yemen’s Ansarullah movement have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the Riyadh-led attacks on Yemen.

Representatives of Iran, the Yemeni Houthi Ansarullah Movement, and four European countries have held a trilateral meeting in Tehran on the latest developments in the war-torn Arab country.

Yemeni forces have conducted attacks on an oil field affiliated to Saudi Aramco in the east of the kingdom in retaliation for Riyadh’s war on their country, al-Masirah TV reports.

Leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei assured the Yemeni nation that its resolute defense against the cruel foreign aggression will result in an ultimate victory, and reminded Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates that their ploys will get nowhere.

Ali-Asghar Khaji, a senior assistant to Iran’s foreign minister in special political affairs, has held talks on Yemen peace process with Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the spokesman for the Arab country’s Ansarullah Movement and the chief negotiator of the National Salvation Government.

Yemen’s Army said it has launched drone attacks on fighter jet hangars of Jizan airport in southwest of Saudi Arabia.

Yemen’s Minister of Information says Sana’a is in possession of a weapon that no country has access to in the whole Arab region.

Saudi Arabia has closed Abha and Jizan airports following airstrikes carried out by the Yemeni army backed by Ansarullah fighters using Qasef K2 drones, said a spokesman for Yemeni armed forces.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says it is a duty to support the people of Yemen as they will be the ultimate winners of the war imposed on them by the Saudi-led coalition.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has strongly denounced the Saudi-led coalition’s bombardment of residential areas in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, which left dozens of civilians including women and children dead or wounded.

Saudi Arabia says it has halted oil pumping on its major east-west pipeline following drone attacks claimed by Yemen’s Ansarullah movement.

Seven drones run by Yemeni armed forces have reportedly carried out attacks against vital Saudi facilities in response to the Riyadh regime’s ongoing acts of aggression against Yemeni people.

Iran has lauded the unilateral withdrawal of Yemen’s National Salvation Government troops from the three port cities of Hudaydah, Ras Isa and Saleef as a “constructive move”.

Yemen's Houthi forces have started unilateral withdrawal from Saleef and Ras Isa ports in Hudaydah province under a United Nations-sponsored peace deal, a news agency says.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has dismissed the US secretary of state’s “false” claims on Tehran’s role in the implementation of Stockholm agreements in Yemen, describing them as part of a “blame game” aimed at covering up the Saudi crimes.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced the Saudi-led coalition's latest airstrike on a school in Yemen's Sana'a, which killed and wounded dozens of schoolgirls.

On the fourth anniversary of the Saudi-led coalition’s invasion of Yemen, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has condemned the blatant aggression on the country’s territory and called for an end to the war and bloodshed there as soon as possible.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected “baseless” remarks made by Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir who had claimed the Islamic Republic is responsible for the continuation of war in Yemen.

A leading Iranian journalist says Saudi Arabia has asked Iran to pave the way for Riyadh’s honourable exit from Yemen which has been the target of Saudis air raids since 2015.

A Yemeni Nobel peace prize winner says she was fascinated by the friendly behaviour of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after she criticized the country for its role in their encounter, noting that it shows a big difference in thinking between Iranians and Saudis.

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has in strongest terms ever condemned the Saudi-led coalition’s war on Yemen, urging the warring sides to respect a “fragile” peace deal, shortly before starting his historic visits to the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Head of Yemen’s Revolutionary High Council says as the world is celebrating New Year, Saudi-led coalition is causing further bloodshed in the war-torn Yemen by pressing ahead with its relentless massacre there.