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Yemeni police inspect a site of Saudi-led airstrikes targeting two houses in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 26, 2022. A Houthi media office claimed an airstrike hit houses for guards of the social insurance office, killing at least seven people and wounding three others, including women and children. (Hani Mohammed/AP)

US awaits final $17 million repayment from Saudis for air refueling in Yemen war

Between March 2015 and November 2018, the Pentagon spent about $300 million to fly aerial refueling missions in support of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and others engaged in the nearly eight-year conflict.

By Rachel S. Cohen

3 years ago

Indonesia says 53 crew of lost sub are dead, wreckage found

An underwater robot equipped with cameras found the lost submarine lying in at least three pieces on the ocean floor.

4 years ago

Defying police, Iranians protest over plane shootdown

Videos posted online showed protesters shouting anti-government slogans and moving through subway stations and sidewalks, many around Azadi, or Freedom, Square after an earlier call for people to demonstrate there.

By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press

5 years ago

Coalition of Iraqi lawmakers calls for US troops to withdraw, Israeli strikes a ‘declaration of war’

A powerful bloc in Iraq's parliament called on Monday for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, following a series of airstrikes targeting Iran-backed Shiite militias in the country that have been blamed on Israel.

6 years ago

Prosecutors: Drunk driving sailor hit, killed a man in Africa

The petty officer faces several other charges in connection to the 2017 incident near Djibouti's Camp Lemonnier.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

6 years ago

Trump refugee policy leaves thousands stranded outside US

Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. But the danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them.

7 years ago