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Attacks targeting exiled Yemeni officials and Saudi-led troops fighting in the country’s civil war killed at least 15 people Tuesday in the port city of Aden, authorities said.

Saudi Arabia deployed thousands of security forces and medical staff for emergency situation, but such a crush in Mina proves that there were a few people who did not carry out the policies they were supposed to, he mentions.

The Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen’s Shiite rebels mistakenly struck a wedding party on Monday, killing at least 38 people, Yemeni security officials said.

On Wednesday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of “harsh” measures if the kingdom failed to promptly repatriate the bodies of the Islamic Republic’s dead.

It wasn’t immediately clear how this would affect the overall death toll in the disaster.

An official repatriation ceremony is slated to be held on Saturday morning at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani and a number of high-ranking officials attending the service.

Among other arms, 18 armor-piercing shells, 54 anti-tank missiles, 15 battery kits designed for military projectiles and weapons guidance systems were found. The coalition says in a statement released Wednesday that the seizure took place on Saturday a few 241 kilometers (150...

Emir of Kano and the leader of the Nigeria Central Coordinating Team for the 2015 hajj Muhammadu Sanusi II has demanded that the Saudi Arabia government publish the details of victims of last Thursday’s stampede on a dedicated website.

The Navy said Wednesday that the vessel was stopped in worldwide waters last Friday, and that the crew said the vessel was bound for Somalia.

Saudi Arabia says the Houthis, Shiites from north Yemen, are puppets of Iran and must be defeated to stop the Islamic Republic from gaining a foothold in the Arabian Peninsula, though Western diplomats have questioned the level of Iranian involvement.

Shortly afterwards, he promised a rapid return to Sanaa. Marem declined to specify how long Hadi would stay in Aden, where he does not have strong popular support.

It did not elaborate. The Post identified the other American as Sam Farran, 54, a security consultant from Michigan. Darden was helping to deliver aid all through the region for Transoceanic & relief organizations amongst its clients, in accordance to spokesman Ken Luce.

Two American hostages have been released by Yemen’s Shia Houthi rebels, the White House has said, while a British captive was also reportedly freed.

Earlier, medics said at least 20 people were killed when coalition warplanes bombed two buildings in the capital Sanaa, which the rebels overran a year ago.

A Saudi-led coalition air strike on rebels in a residential area of the Yemeni capital on Tuesday killed at least 21 people including civilians, witnesses and medics said.