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SHAFAQNA –If Yemen remains synonymous with unrest and violence thanks to the military deluge Saudi Arabia has insisted on drowning the impoverished nation under since late March 2015, Terror had yet to claim its fill of blood. Terror as it were never could assert its warped religious rationale onto Yemen – not beyond a few clusters, not to the point where Terror could ever present any real existential threat to the Yemeni Republic. This was then … today is a brand new day! Today, Saudi Arabia is actively working to change that reality! Saudi Arabia I would add, absolutely needs for Terror to become Yemen’s newest existential threat to counteract that which is now threatening its own. For al...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA –In order to bring you, our readers, closer to realities and truths, Shafaqna will conduct a series of exclusive podcast interviews with renown political analysts politicians, officials, religious leaders, and academics. As always our aim is simple – knowledge. In a world run, and based on falsehood, Truth has become somewhat of a rare commodity – still, we ought to seek what has been dissimulated as to rise truly free. As Imam Ali said: “Ask in order to understand, and do not ask in order to find fault, for surely the ignorant man who wants to lea resembles a man of knowledge, and surely a man of knowledge who wants to be difficult resembles an ignorant man who ...

SHAFAQNA –If the world has become desensitise to human suffering, there are still crimes so tragic and uecessary, so violent in nature and abominable in the tragedy they carry, that we caot help but pause. Should you have missed it somehow War has held Yemen hostage since March 25th, 2015, a day which saw Saudi Arabia unilaterally move against its impoverished neighbour in the name of “democracy building.” Yemen’s war you were told then, was a necessary evil, a democratic mean to end a popular movement Riyadh cared little for, since it spoke in negation of its religious extremism – Wahhabism. As Riyadh weaved its narrative the world sat back, gleefully deaf to the cries Yemen let out in its...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA –Dr. Riaz Karim from the Mona Relief Organization speaks to George Galloway on Sputnik about Yemen humanitarian crisis and the silence of nation #TheSoundOfYourSilence #SaveALifeInYemen https://www.gofundme.com/savealifeinyemen SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleRights activists propose pilgrimage ban on Saudi Arabia Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA – “When you witness that it is almost a year and a half now that Yemen has been under bombardment, is this a minor event? They are constantly bombarding a country. And they are not bombarding its military centers, rather they are bombarding its markets, hospitals, public squares and schools and the people’s houses and gatherings. This is not a minor event, rather it is a very grave crime. They do not understand what the month of Ramadan and a month of haraam are and they do not differentiate between children and adults. They have murdered so many children! Well, this is a grave crime as well which has unfortunately been committed by the Saudi govement. However, they have done so ...

SHAFAQNA –The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark expressed its serious conce by the information it received about the health condition of the prominent human rights defender Nabeel Rajab who is placed in solitary confinement. In a letter on Tuesday (August 23, 2016) to the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) and which Bahrain Mirror leaed about, the Ministry of Foreign affairs said that “it fully understands the alarming nature of the conces expressed by BCHR regarding the general human rights situation in Bahrain.” It added “Denmark will remain committed to raising questions on the human rights situation in Bahrain,” reminding that it tackled “the arbitrary detention in Bahrain thr...

SHAFAQNA –The War on Children [Yemen], broadcasted on August 23 2016, on ABC’s television programForeign Corespondent, shed a long awaited light on the silent and deadly war on the children of Yemen. Yemen’s war, which has been inaccurately painted as civil war by mainstream media is actually a war of democratic restoration and rebuttal of foreign diktat – and more particularly Saudi influence. It all began in early 2015 when the Ansarallah movement, also known as the Houthis enacted popular will by assuming authority over Sana’a govement. It is following calls for reforms, and the enactment of the National Dialogue that President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi chose to resign not once but twice, ...

Courtesy of May Saleh and Bahrain Mirror SHAFAQNA – Speaking on the sideline ofThe Inteational Conference to Support the Yemeni People – held on August, 20-21, 2016 in the British capital, LondonBahraini opposition figure, Saeed al-Shehabi, stressed on the importance of accountability, transparency and justice when addressing the issue of Yemen. “This is an illegal war with unfounded allegations and unjustified aggressions by the Saudis and must stop,” he emphasized during a workshop. “Every aggression and war in the world, since the second world war, has been addressed and has been called for to stop except this one. Why? Because the Saudis are involved,” he added. The themesof reparation, ...

Saudi pilots have launched yet another airstrike on a school in the Yemeni province of Ta’izz, with no information immediately available on possible casualties. According to Yemen’s al-Masirah television, the air raid hit the al-Rawd school in the district of Dabab in weste Ta’izz early on Monday.In the war Saudi Arabia has launched on Yemen, the Saudi forces have been targeting schools, hospitals, residential buildings, roads, markets and refugee camps. Reports by media outlets in the United States — which has offered intelligence support for the Saudi war by helping Saudi forces acquire “targets” — have pointed to the incompetence as well as cowardice on the part of the Saudi pilots conduc...

SHAFAQNA – Organized by Stop The War, Sheba for Democracy and Human Rights and several other prominent NGOs, Yemen Inteational Conference in Support of the People of Yemen kicked off this Saturday (August 20, 2015) at the Pullman Hotel in central London. Over the span of two days – Saturday and Sunday – panellists will expose the extent of Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations against Yemen, as well as denounce world powers’ pandemic silent. In exclusive comments to Shafaqna Dr Riaz Karim, Director of the Mona Relief Organization, noted: “Yemen remains the forgotten conflict of your generation, an open wound onto the world community since we have allowed for grand criminals of war to abuse...

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SHAFAQNA – The crowd is chanting “We won’t bow down” as Saudi jets circle over head #Sanaa#Yemen – @omeisypic.twitter.com/xxB5xfhwWx — Gissur Simonarson (@GissiSim) August 20, 2016 Millions flocked to the Yemeni capital, Sana’a this Saturday to publicly declare their support and allegiance to the Resistance – as fronted by the Ansarallah movement. As the crowd roared its determination to withstood foreign aggression, Saudi jets flew low in the sky – yet another attempt to bully a people into compliance. Undeterred men, women, and children stood in the capital, defiant in their determination to push against Wahhabi imperialism – a nation united in its Freedom, its faith, and its pluralism....

SHAFAQNA –What do you do when your army is killing children and bombing schools and hospitals? You give them rewards. At least that’s what the Saudi King has done, giving the kingdom’s soldiers rewards for the killing machine that it has produced after getting back from vacation. And what does the US do when a regime that commits rights violations needs more military supplies? It rewards it with more military supplies, in the form of a possible 1.3 billion dollars arms sales. With well over 9000 people killed, the war on Yemen has failed in almost every front, including the UN inaction: just some of the topics we’ll cover in this edition of the debate. The Debate – Saudi Yemen Crimes by pr...

SHAFAQNA –The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, expressed deep conce about the Bahraini security authorities’ summoning of Head of Religious Freedom unit at the Bahrain Human Rights Observatory, Sheikh Maytham al-Salman. “I am very conceed by reports that talk about the Bahraini authorities summoning Maitham Salman for interrogation on August 14, 2016, and I am observing this matter closely,” he said in a tweet on his official Twitter account. Sheikh Salman said that he had received a call from the security authorities asking him to be present for interrogation Sunday (August 14, 2016) without informing him of the...

SHAFAQNA –For how long will we watch our communities bu and do nothing to by way of putting the fire out? How many times can we expect to attend our people’s funeral and never attempt to intervene in saving their lives. Yemen is exploding before our eyes and all we have done is silently stand by. All we have EVER done is watched as the proverbial Rome has cracked and but under the flames of its tyrants. All we have EVER done is mou … when will we decide to rise? When will we as a people lea that Resistance is not a faraway ideal, but a responsibility we all must carry – not because it promises glorious rewards but because it remains the only real expression of our faith. Was it not God who ...

SHAFAQNA –Six aid agencies call on the UN to hold the Saudi-led Coalition to account Six aid agencies today expressed their disappointment that the Saudi-led Coalition has not been put back on the UN’s list of parties responsible for grave violations against children in Yemen. The agencies – Action Contre La Faim, CARE, Intersos, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam and Save the Children – called for tangible progress in protecting children caught up in the conflict in Yemen to have been demonstrated when the UN Security Council meets for its aual debate on Children and Armed Conflict on August 2. According to UN verified data nearly 2,000 children were killed or injured in Yemen during 2015, w...

SHAFAQNA-Iran said the United Nations (UN)’s decision to temporarily reverse the blacklisting of Saudi Arabia for killing Yemeni children amounts to a betrayal of the defenseless minors. Gholam-Ali Khoshroo, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN, made the remark at a UN Security Council meeting to discuss children and armed conflict on Tuesday. Back in June, the UN blacklisted Saudi Arabia after concluding in a report that Riyadh had been responsible for 60 percent of the 785 deaths of children in the Saudi war on Yemen last year. A few days later, however, the world body aounced that Saudi Arabia would be taken off the list pending a joint review with Saudi Arabia. Khosh...

SHAFAQNA –Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people on Tehran University campus on Friday, Ayatollah Seddiqi said, “The Saudis in an attack on a Yemeni village worsened its black record of killing the Yemeni civilians; they attacked the villages and massacred all their residents and cut their bodies into pieces after doing that.” He strongly blasted the Saudi regime for its continued massacre of the people of Yemen, and asked, “Which human rights body approves of the Saudi regime’s behavior?” The Saudi-led forces torched the houses of Yemeni civilians in al-Sarari village after looting their properties, killing 20 of them and abducting 40 others. The Saudi-led forces’ atroci...

SHAFAQNA-The Holy Quran’s beauty does not only lie in its concepts and teachings. Its words are beautiful as well. It was these beautiful words that impressed and astonished those whose hearts had been locked up and who were not willing to understand, see, benefit from and accept Quranic concepts at the time they were sent down. Even such individuals were moved deeply in the face of the miraculous beauty of such words. They could not resist Quranic words. The Holy Quran’s words, rhythm, method and style are a miracle in their own right. The Holy Quran is not a poem or a piece of prose. It is neither a poem nor a piece of prose, but it is as beautiful as the best poem and the best piece of ...

SHAFAQNA – Several Yemeni-based media sources have reported that a US mercenary was killed in Yemen as he fought the Resistance. The US soldier’s presence in Yemen confirmed earlier allegations that Washington has sold out its men to al-Saud’s imperialistic ambitions, as part of grand military contract. Other media have claimed that the US mercenary managed to escape, while others said he was captured. Regardless, all reports point to the same conclusion – foreign mercenaries, Weste mercenaries have entered the fray on behalf of Riyadh. more to come … SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleMuslim migration to Australia: the big slowdown Let's block ads! بخوانید...