Yemen

Houthi rebels in Yemen on Sunday rejected a US call for allowing safe passage for civilians and halting its military offensive in the central Marib province, Anadolu reports. In...

On Thursday 7 October, I received a call from the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Middle East office seeking more assistance to alleviate the...

The assistant for operations affairs in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Abbas Neil Foroshan, said that the Saudis have no choice but to negotiate an end to the Yemeni war,...

At least 134 Houthi fighters have been killed in air strikes in the south of Marib province, the Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday. "We targeted nine military vehicles of...

The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah Bin Zayed, said on Wednesday that he would visit Israel soon, adding that his country was impressed with the growing...

As a result of the ongoing war in Yemen, more than 74,000 Yemenis have been displaced since the beginning of this year 2021, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)...

The European Union yesterday called for death sentences issued against Yemeni journalists and activists to be revoked. "On the occasion of the World Day Against Death Penalty, the EU...

A car bomb targeting the governor's convoy shook Yemen's southern port city of Aden yesterday killing at least six people and wounding seven, the information minister said on Twitter...

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Bahrain, Russia and other members of the UN Human Rights Council yesterday pushed through a vote to shut down the body's war crimes investigations in Yemen, in a stinging...

Saudi Arabia has lobbied heavily against a Western resolution that would extend the mandate of UN investigators who have documented possible war crimes in Yemen, including by the Riyadh-led...

What appears to be corruption at the highest levels in Yemen has been exposed by the Pandora Papers, the series of leaked documents obtained by the International Consortium of...

Militiamen affiliated with the UAE-backed separatist group the Southern Transitional Council (STC) have kidnapped around 60 guards at the Central Bank in Aden, local sources have reported. The sources...

Saudi and Iranian officials have agreed to look for a practical mechanism for a solution in Yemen, Jadeh Iran website reported yesterday. The site quoted an unnamed Arab diplomatic source as...

Clashes in the Yemeni city of Aden on Saturday between members of the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) killed at least four fighters before armoured vehicles were deployed and...

Tens of Yemeni women took part on Friday in a demonstration organised in Aden against the deteriorating economic conditions and the decline in the value of local currency, Anadolu...

At 11 a.m. on Saturday 13 August, 2015, the battle between Ansar Allah forces (known as the Houthis) and the Popular Resistance Committees (aligned with the internationally-recognised government in...

The Yemeni government has urged the international community to provide it with urgent financial support to avoid further economic collapse in the country. Speaking at the United Nations General...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has called on Iran to directly and peacefully negotiate the dispute over three islands in the Gulf and has condemned the country's interference in...

US President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates along with the US special envoy to Yemen, the White...

96 km off the Horn of Africa coast lies a unique archipelago of Yemeni islands

Yemen today received its third batch of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX global vaccine-sharing scheme, Reuters reported the health ministry saying. A delivery of 356,000 shots of the AstraZeneca vaccine arrived...

Donors pledged an additional $600 million to tackle Yemen's humanitarian crisis on Wednesday, as the United Nations and other aid agencies warned that vital aid programmes would be cut...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is "deeply concerned" about the human rights situation in Yemen, where all parties to the conflict are "violating" international human rights...

The United Arab Emirates' interference in the affairs of Arab countries aimed at "fighting the Muslim Brotherhood," the adviser to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, announced...

Saudi forces in Yemen's Socotra yesterday cancelled a UAE flight that was heading to the archipelago's airport due to a lack of coordination with the Yemeni embassy in Abu...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday condemned the execution of nine Yemenis by the Houthis over their alleged involvement in the killing of a senior Houthi official in an...

Palestine Action is, as its name implies, involved in direct action against some of the arms trade's most deadly production lines, notably Israel's Elbit Systems. Since it burst onto...

Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Saturday that authorities had executed nine men who were convicted of involvement in the 2018 killing of Saleh al-Samad, then the armed group's...

Yemenis staged a protest in the southern city of Taiz on Saturday to express their frustration after a plunge in the local currency which led to a surge in...

The Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak yesterday called on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states to hold an emergency conference to provide economic support to Yemen,...

The UAE-backed separatists in Yemen have declared a state of emergency across the southern provinces including the disputed port city of Aden. The city is supposed to be the...