RAF Typhoon fighters will fly defensive missions over cities and infrastructure, in extension of UK support for RiyadhRAF Typhoon fighters are to protect Saudi Arabia from attack by Yemen’s Houthis, flying defensive missions...
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Read MoreConflict between UN-recognised government and Iran-backed Houthis has impacts far beyond country’s bordersYemen has been plunged into a civil war that has extended to one of the world’s most vital maritime choke points and to...
Read MoreBritish aid to double as 19m people face acute hunger, but summit unlikely to end conflict amid Saudi-UAE tensions The British foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, will urge Sudan’s warring parties to “cease bloodshed” during a...
Read MoreAnalysts say US and Israeli attacks failed to weaken rebels and are only pushing the country to the brink of famineLate last month, a suspected US airstrike levelled four homes on the fringes of the Yemeni capital, Sana’a,...
Read MoreIsraeli PM says people will be moved for their ‘own protection’Israel to expand Gaza operations to establish ‘sustained presence’One of Pope Francis’s popemobiles is being transformed into a mobile health clinic for children in...
Read MoreOfficials tell Associated Press that plan would involve troops staying there for an unspecified amount of timeA report by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, citing officials with knowledge of the details, said new plan to...
Read MoreRAF Typhoons targeted buildings used to make drones, officials say, in British military’s first involvement since Trump took officeMiddle East crisis – live updatesBritish fighter jets joined their US counterparts in airstrikes...
Read MoreAlleged attack on facility holding African detainees raises fresh questions over US military operations in regionYemen’s Houthi rebels say 68 people have been killed and 47 injured in a US strike on a detention centre holding...
Read MoreIn extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on HouthisOutrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’Senior members of Donald Trump’s...
Read MoreSecurity leak triggers bipartisan anger after Atlantic reveals officials inadvertently broadcast highly sensitive military plansWhite House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalistA catastrophic security...
Read MoreEx-Foreign Office official says he saw conduct that ‘crossed the threshold into complicity with war crimes’Mark Smith: I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign OfficeBritain’s system for...
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