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Bashar Al-Assad said he had invited Hezbollah militants to fight alongside his regime but he denied the presence of Iranian troops in Syria in an interview with French television broadcast April 20.

The Yemeni commander of a vast military district covering half the country's border with Saudi Arabia pledged support to Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on April 19, local officials said. 

Saudi Arabia pledged April 18 to cover the entire $274 million in humanitarian aid sought by the UN for conflict-torn Yemen, which has also been the target of Saudi-led air strikes against Shiite rebels.
  

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon highlighted on Thursday the gravity of the situation in Yemen and called for an immediate ceasefire by all parties to the conflict.

This comes as Jamal Benomar, the Special Adviser to the Secretary General on Yemen, announced his resignation from the position, the news centre of UN informs.

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called April 16 for an immediate halt to the fighting in Yemen, as he began the hunt for a new UN envoy who can broker a political end to the conflict.

The UN peace envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, has resigned, the UN said April 15, after losing support from Gulf countries for his mission in the conflict-riven nation.
     
The Moroccan diplomat had been UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy for Yemen since 2012.
      

Another three Romanian citizens and one family member, citizen of the Republic of Yemen have been safely evacuated, by car, from the locality Wadi Dawan to Saudi Arabia, according to a Romanian Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) release remitted to AGERPRES on Wednesday.

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The report published by the Kosovo Center for Security Studies (KCSS) on Tuesday explores the "causes and consequences of the involvement of Kosovo citizens as foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq" as well as the reasons for the radicalisation of a fraction of Kosovo's traditionally moderate or even secular population.

Egypt and Saudi Arabia are considering holding joint military manoeuvres in the kingdom as the allies carry out air strikes in its neighbour Yemen, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's office said.
      
Other Gulf Arab countries would also participate, the Egyptian president's office said late Tuesday.
      

Russia's return to the group of leading industrialised nations hinges on its assistance to efforts to put an an end to the conflict in eastern Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said.