UN aid chief Mark Lowcock urged Gulf states to step up next Monday when the world body seeks to avert a large-scale "man-made" famine in Yemen by raising $3.85...
Health authorities in the government-controlled part of Yemen have warned that hospitals must prepare for a "possible" second wave of coronavirus and take measures to prevent the disease from...
The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Nayef Bin Falah Al-Hajraf, yesterday called on the European Union to pressure Yemen's Houthi group to "stop their attacks" on the...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that Yemeni forces loyal to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in the southern city of Aden have tortured...
Unknown gunmen yesterday stormed the home of Taiz governor in Yemen's interim capital, Aden, and kidnapped a high-ranking security official, Anadolu news agency reported. According to a Yemeni government source, who...
Iran's Foreign Minister has said that his country has informed the UN Envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, that it is ready to help end the war in Yemen. "Saudi...
The fifth meeting of the Supervisory Committee for the Implementation of the Prisoners and Detainees Exchange Agreement between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels has concluded in Amman without...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday expressed its "grave concern" over the escalation of violence in the governorate of Marib, which has been witnessing intense...
US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, state media said today, days after the White House said it would deal with the king,...
A member of the Yemeni Parliament, Hamid Al-Ahmar, accused both Iran and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of working to divide Yemen to extend their influence in the region...
British Ambassador to Yemen Michael Aron has announced that the Houthis are trying to achieve gains on the ground before engaging in a ceasefire. Asharq Al-Awsat quoted Aron stating...
An increasingly intense assault by Yemen's Houthi rebels on the government-held city of Marib "must stop" amid spiraling humanitarian fallout, the UN's envoy for the country warned Thursday, Anadolu Agency reported....
Houthi militias in Yemen on Monday bombed a refugee camp in the district of Sarwah, west of the governorate of Marib, Yemen's Information Minister, Moammar Al-Eryani, said. "Iranian-backed Houthi...
The UAE Ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al-Otaibi, has clashed on social media with US Congressman Ro Khanna over the war on Yemen and the UAE's direct involvement in escalating...
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Muhammad Hussein This month, the United States removed the Houthis from its list of designated terrorist groups, a decision thought wise by the administration of President Joe Biden. That move, more...
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Yemen Yemen's Houthis have intensified their attacks on Saudi Arabia and the central Yemeni province of Marib. The Houthis' military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree, announced on Sunday that two...
The Houthis in Yemen have intensified their attacks on the besieged city of Marib, the last stronghold of pro-government forces. Dozens of fatalities have been reported on both sides....
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Let me make it clear that I am against injustice, oppression and arbitrary arrests for political purposes. I also favour civic freedoms for citizens, regardless of their beliefs or...
The Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, said the kingdom will continue to consider Yemen's Houthi group as a terrorist organisation, despite the United...
Some 16 million people in Yemen will suffer from hunger this year; an issue that must be taken into account when dealing with the war in the country, a...
A fundraising event for Yemen's humanitarian crisis is expected to take place in early March, hosted virtually by Sweden and Switzerland, four aid sources told Reuters on Sunday. A...
A Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen said it destroyed two explosives fired into Saudi Arabia on Sunday afternoon in an attack the Houthis said hit Abha...
Saudi Arabia will continue to treat Yemen's Houthis as a terrorist organisation despite a US decision to lift the designation on the group, according to the kingdom's permanent representative...
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said Saturday it had intercepted a drone fired by the Houthis towards the Abha airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, Anadolu Agency reports. "Coalition forces...
A report by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor and SAM for Rights and Liberties revealed that the Houthi group has forcibly recruited around 10,300 children in Yemen since 2014,...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced today that he will revoke the designations of Yemen's Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organisation and a specially designated global terrorist...
At least 400,000 Yemeni children under five could die of starvation this year without urgent intervention amid soaring rates of severe malnutrition driven by war and the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported...
The United States' new special envoy to Yemen, Tim Lenderking, met Yemen's internationally-recognised president and his foreign minister in Riyadh yesterday, amid a flurry of diplomatic activity by the...
Khalid Batarfi, the Yemen-based leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), recently appeared in a videotaped recording a week after the United Nations (UN) announced that he was...
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said that they will not stop their attacks on Saudi Arabia until the Riyadh-led military coalition ends its offensive against Houthi-controlled areas. The Shia fighters took...
Kuwait has contributed to the medical treatment of 35,000 cancer patients in Yemen, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Tuesday. "Thanks to the generous support from the state...
Yemen's Houthi-supported armed forces stepped up offensives against the last stronghold of pro-government fighters in Marib province on Monday following renewed clashes the day before. A source from the...