Yemen

Turkey evacuated 55 of its nationals from the Yemeni city of Aden on April 3 with a military boat amid fighting and a bombing campaign from regional Sunni powers, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu said.

The boat will take the Turkish nationals to Djibouti, where they will take a Turkish Airlines (THY) flight to return home, Çavu?o?lu wrote on his Twitter account.

More than 500 die in Yemen during past two weeks

519 people, 90 of them children, have been killed in the fighting in Yemen during the past two weeks, while some 1,700 others have been wounded.

Al-Qaeda fighters have liberated several hundreds of prisoners of a jail they have stormed in Southeastern Yemen, officials suggest.

Syria and Iraq and have become a ?veritable international finishing school for extremists,? United Nations experts have reported to the U.N. Security Council, noting that there were more than 22,000 foreign fighters from 100 countries in the Mideast neighbors.

Just a day after describing as ?unacceptable? remarks from the Arab League head that Turkey was one of the ?foreign powers? meddling in Yemen, the Turkish Foreign Ministry has ?condemned? the claim, issuing a statement specifically addressing the controversy.

The United States announced on March 31 it was lifting its hold on the supply of military equipment to Egypt, which was frozen when the military took power in Cairo nearly two years ago.
   

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned world powers on March 30 that any nuclear deal they strike with Iran would be seen as a reward for Tehran's alleged "aggression" in Yemen.
      

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has denied that any change has been made to his scheduled visit to Tehran, despite calls from the Iranian parliament to cancel the visit after his criticism of Iran?s ?interference? in 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.