News - Yemen: Al Masirah Net website launched on Saturday its page on national domain, www.almasirah.net.ye, after being exposed to a hacking operation by the US administration that caused it to depart from its previous domain.

On Tuesday, the US seized the websites of Al Masirah Net English-language and Arabic-language website, as well as Iran's Press TV and al-Alam.

Other web domains, including Palestine al-Youm, a Palestinian-directed broadcaster, Karbala TV – the official television of the Imam Hussein (PBUH) shrine in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, Iraqi Afaq TV, Asia TV and al-Naeem TV satellite television channels, as well as Nabaa TV which reports the latest stories about Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf countries, were also seized.

Bahrain’s LuaLua TV, a channel run by opposition groups with offices in London and Beirut, was also closed, according to AFP news agency.

Al Masirah  Net was back online within hours establishing a new website, using its name but swapping the .net domain for .com.

Press TV website was back online within hours with the new .ir domain address. Al-Alam TV also quickly announced that its website will be available on .ir domain.

The US Justice Department said Wednesday it had seized 33 media websites used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU), as well as three of the Iraqi anti-terror Kata’ib Hezbollah group, which it said were hosted on US-owned domains in violation of sanctions.

Al Masirah TV condemned the latest decision by the US President Joe Biden administration to block access to its website and several dozen others as “an act of American piracy and copyright confiscation.”

“The government of the United States of America is banning the Almasirah Net website without any justification or even prior notice,” the network said in a statement.

The statement added, “We emphasize that Almasirah will continue its lofty mission with the help of God. It will continue to confront the American and Israeli piracy against our (Yemeni) nation by all available means.”