Yemen

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Baghdad on March 30 for talks with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and other top officials.
      
Ban first met President Fuad Masum and Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and was also due to meet parliament speaker Salim al-Juburi before holding talks with Abadi.
      

An air strike killed dozens of people at a camp for displaced people in northwest Yemen on March 30, aid workers said, as Arab warplanes bombard rebels around the country.
      
The International Organization for Migration said 45 internally displaced people had been killed and 65 wounded at the Al-Mazrak camp in Hajja province.
      

Arab coalition warplanes carried out a fifth straight night of air strikes against Shiite rebels near the Yemeni capital and elsewhere in the violence-wracked country, residents said on March.
      
Fighter jets roared in the skies above Sanaa from 9 pm (1800 GMT) until around dawn, an AFP correspondent reported.
      

Could there be that much of a difference between how developments of this "Greater Middle Eastern Area" are perceived in Ankara, Cairo or Kuwait? Listening in a Kuwait hotel room to a political analyst on a Saudi news channel reporting live on the Cairo meeting of the Arab League, the difference of perception was crystal clear.

Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen will continue until Shiite rebels ?withdraw and surrender their weapons,? a summit of Arab leaders decided on March 29, also agreeing in principle to form joint military force and criticizing Turkey, Iran and Israel over ?interference.?
 

There has been no change to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s planned visit to Tehran, a high Iranian official has said, dismissing allegations of a possible cancellation which arose after he openly criticized Tehran.

Tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital in a show of solidarity against Islamist militants on March 29, hours after the government said its forces had killed nine members of a group suspected of carrying out this month's deadly Bardo Museum attack.
   

Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies have carried out a third night of airstrikes on Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, to stem advances by Houthi rebels, Euronews reported on Sunday.

In his opening address at an Arab summit in Egypt, Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi directly blamed Iran for "destroying" Yemen and creating "a regional crisis."

The United Nations evacuated staff from war-torn Yemen as Russia warned Saudi-led air strikes on Iranian-backed rebels were affecting crunch nuclear talks between world powers and Tehran.

Yemen's President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi urged his Arab allies to keep up the bombing raids in his country until the Huthi Shiite rebels surrender, branding them Iran's "puppet".

Saudi King Salman has vowed that the military intervention in Yemen will not stop until the country is stable and safe Saudi King Salman has vowed that the military intervention in Yemen will not stop until the country is stable and safe.

The king made the remark on March 28 at the opening session of an Arab summit held in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.