Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia oil sites ‘legitimate defence’, Iran says
Iran said the missile-and-drone attack on major Saudi oil sites earlier this month was an act of “legitimate defence” by Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi rebels.
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Raab says Houthi rebels in Yemen attacking Saudi oil facilities is implausible
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said it is implausible that attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities were launched by Yemen’s Houthi movement.
Iran closes door on talks with US amid Saudi oil attack tensions
Iran’s supreme leader has announced “there will be no talks with the US at any level” in remarks which appeared to end all speculation about a possible meeting between the two countries’ presidents at the UN later this month.
Saudis invite global experts to investigate oil installation attacks
Saudi Arabia has said its initial inquiries indicate that Iranian weapons were used in attacks on key oil installations, and it will invite UN and other international experts to take part in the investigation.
US ‘locked and loaded’ to respond to attack on Saudis, Trump says
US President Donald Trump has said that his country is “locked and loaded” to respond after a drone attack on Saudi Arabia that cut into global energy supplies and halved the kingdom’s oil production.
Houthi rebels claim drone attack on major Saudi oil processing plant
Drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have attacked the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and another major oilfield, sparking huge fires.
At least 100 killed in Yemen air strikes
At least 100 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in Yemen after air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a detention centre run by the Houthi rebels, officials and the rebels’ health ministry said.
U.S. arms giants in running for £2bn Faslane contract as chiefs privatise submarine training
The training of Royal Navy recruits at Faslane nuclear base could be delivered by multinational arms firms bidding for a £2bn Ministry of Defence contract.
UK on the ‘wrong side’ of the law on Saudi arms sales, inquiry warns
Britain is "narrowly on the wrong side" of international humanitarian law over arms sales to Saudi Arabia during the conflict in Yemen, a parliamentary inquiry has warned.
Critics call for halt to arms firms ‘normalising the abnormal’ by visiting Scots schools
AN Italian arms firm helping build Saudi war planes linked to atrocities in Yemen has visited Scots schools at least 17 times over the last two years.
Revealed: 366 alleged war crimes but only 79 investigations. Pressure builds on ministers over UK-backed Saudi bombing in Yemen
THERE have been 366 alleged war crimes in Yemen but only 79 investigations by the Saudi-led coalition, we can reveal.