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Zarif and his entourage returned to Tehran on Wednesday morning, a day after Iran and the West reached a historic nuclear deal.

Yemen’s “popular resistance” forces, which support president-in-exile Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, said late Sunday that 47 civilians had been killed – and more than 140 injured – when the Shia Houthi militia shelled parts of the southern Aden province.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned Sunday that Iran will “cheat” on the nuclear agreement with the Obama administration and other power and could develop a nuclear weapon within a decade.

The coalition said it has not received a formal request from Hadi’s government to observe a truce, while the rebels said before the ceasefire went into effect they had little hope it would succeed.

One of the bases reportedly retaken from the rebels was the Labuza army base in Lahj province, north of Aden, and the other was the headquarters of the 117th armored division in eastern Shabwa province some 230 kilometers (145 miles) away.

Israel has been strongly critical of the agreement struck this week between its arch-foe Iran and six world powers that would see Tehran curb its nuclear programme in return for a gradual lifting of sanctions.

The government announced it had “liberated” the southern port city, while witnesses said rebels still controlled a district where fighting continues.

Yemeni ministers have arrived back in Aden after the government announced it had “liberated” the port city from rebel control, the interior ministry told AFP on Saturday.

Saudi-owned al Arabiya TV claimed the Houthis, who control Sanaa, have put their forces in the city on alert.

All of these players feel a direct threat to their power and influence as a result of last Tuesday’s agreement. Imagine that the attack did so much damage that for the next 10 or 15 years it would be utterly impossible for Iran to build a nuclear bomb. After some of the...

The developments mark the biggest military setback in over three months of fighting in the south for the Houthis, who control the capital Sana’a and much of northern Yemen.

New York, July 18 (IBNS) United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the car bomb attack perpetrated at a police checkpoint yesterday in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia said it has arrested 431 suspected Islamic State terrorists and thwarted six suicide attacks by militants.

Yemen’s exiled government had wanted the rebels to withdraw from the cities and towns they had overrun since September as a precondition to a truce, but it came under pressure to agree to a halt in violence immediately.

Saudi fighter jets pounded a police station in Al-Radhma district in the southwestern Yemeni province of Ibb after the truce came into force early Saturday, Yemen’s Saba Net news agency reported.