The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says Yemen has one of the world's highest rates of contamination with landmines and other deadly explosives.

Red Cross says Yemen has one of the world's highest rates of contamination with landmines and other deadly explosives.

Yemen’s Ansarullah resistance movement and the Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) free scores of prisoners on the last of a three-day exchange of nearly 900 detainees.

Scores of prisoners of war, including Saudis, have been freed as part of a cross-border exchange between a Saudi-led military coalition and Yemen's Ansarullah movement, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.  

In Turkey, following the recent earthquakes, many lives have been saved due to an abundance of heavy lifting machinery, yet in Syria, due to a dearth of equipment as a result of western sanctions, many lives were needlessly lost.

President Assad says the Damascus government is determined to deliver humanitarian aid to all earthquake-devastated regions in the country.

Iran’s foreign minister says the Islamic Republic is prepared to immediately dispatch humanitarian aid and rescue teams to quake-devastated areas in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib.

The Syrian foreign ministry condemns the US for targeting its health sector with unilateral sanctions.

The Yemeni prime minister says Saudi Arabia and its allies are using all available resources in order to add to the miseries of the Yemeni people.

Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 0900 GMT, on July 31, 2022.