The Swedish Ministry of Defence announced yesterday that it will keep  its military forces in Iraq until further notice. The ministry stressed that there was no intention to withdraw...

Swedish authorities arrested an Iranian citizen suspected of connections to the execution in 1988 of around 3,000 socialist prisoners in Iran, according to local media on Wednesday, Anadolu reports....

Sweden’s new foreign minister, Ann Linde, said the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) is not anti-Semitic, but rather a legitimate and non-violent movement. According to the website of...

The decision to award the Austrian playwright Peter Handke the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature has sparked outrage after he previously denied the Srebrenica genocide. In 1995, during the...

The chief executive of the Swedish firm which owns the Stena Impero, the British-flagged tanker detained by Tehran on July 19, said he had been informed that the vessel...

Iran will free seven crew members of the detained British tanker Stena Impero, Iranian state television reported yesterday. Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, said that the seven crew...

Iran on Wednesday said it would take another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment but it also...

Some 171 Swedish artists and celebrities have signed an open letter urging for the boycott of the Eurovision Song Contest which is scheduled to be held in Israel next month. “We,...

What if Bashar al-Assad called on the Syrian people to rally and fight in defence of the occupied Golan Heights? Who would respond to his call while Syria is...

When he left the besieged Gaza Strip to look for better opportunities, 36-year-old Palestinian immigrant Hamza Dahlas did not know that he would fall in love with a Swedish...

Germany forced the European missile manufacturing company MBDA to stop exporting “Meteor” missiles to Saudi Arabia because of the kingdom’s leadership of the Saudi-UAE Coalition in Yemen. Germany’s objection...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would eject a foreign force set up to help safeguard Palestinians in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank,...

The shelling of a camp for displaced people in Yemen’s northwestern Hajjah province killed eight civilians and wounded 30 others, the United Nations said on Sunday, amid fears that...

Yemen’s warring parties hope to deliver final lists of prisoners to the United Nations after talks in Amman on Thursday under an exchange agreement, a government delegate said, Reuters reports....

Yemen’s warring sides started talks in Amman on Wednesday on how to implement a prisoner exchange that will allow thousands of families to be reunited as part of UN-led...

A spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that his country has agreed to a UN request to host a meeting between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels...

Yemen’s Aden-based government has accused Houthi rebels of violating a ceasefire that came into force late Monday night in the western Al-Hudaydah province. Government spokesman Mamoun al-Mehmaji told Anadolu...

Clashes broke out across the Yemeni port city of Hudaydah yesterday between government forces and Houthi fighters despite a ceasefire agreement reached during the Yemeni peace talks in Sweden....

Fighting broke out on the outskirts of Yemen’s port city of Hudaydah on Friday, residents said, a day after a ceasefire agreement was reached by the warring parties at...

A member of the Yemeni government delegation participating in consultations with the Houthis in Sweden yesterday denied reaching an agreement with UN envoy, Martin Griffiths on a framework for...

The United Nations proposed at initial talks between Yemen’s warring parties on Tuesday that they withdraw from the contested port city of Hodeidah, a lifeline for millions facing famine,...

Yemen’s government and Houthi rebels will exchange some 16,000 prisoners after 40 days, said a member of the Yemeni delegation of ongoing peace talks in Sweden, Anadolu Agency reports. Hadi Haig, who...

Yemen’s Saudi-backed government has proposed reopening the Houthi-held airport in the capital Sanaa on condition planes are inspected in the airports of Aden or Sayun which are under its...

The Yemeni Foreign Minister and head of the government delegation Khalid Al-Yamani said it has been agreed that extra participants in the Houthi delegation would be removed from peace...

A Houthi delegation arrived in Sweden late on Tuesday to participate in the UN-sponsored peace talks; a delegation member told Anadolu news agency. According to the unnamed member; the...

Is Yemen one step closer to peace?

is Yemen one step closer to peace?

The United Nations special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths arrived in the Houthi-held capital of Sanaa on Monday to accompany the Houthis delegation to Sweden to participate in the...

Iran backs UN-sponsored peace talks in Yemen, state media reported earlier today, with Tehran stating that it was ready to help find a political solution to the conflict. “Iran...

Qatar will more than double its naval forces by 2025 as a massive new base comes online and it expands a national service programme amid a protracted dispute with...

As pressure grows for a ceasefire in Yemen it seems likely that there will be some form of de-escalation soon, if not a full-fledged ceasefire. Indeed, a modest de-escalation...

Operations at Yemen’s lifeline port of Hodeidah have nearly halved in two weeks, with shipping companies deterred by insecurity in the flashpoint Houthi-held city, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP)...