The UAE has been accused of running tours including direct flights for tourist groups to the Yemeni island of Socotra without the permission of the Yemeni government. According to...

The US Navy seized a huge arms shipment in the Arabian Sea last week, reportedly en route from Iran to the Houthis in Yemen. The shipment was on a...

The Iranian embassy in Ankara yesterday dismissed a Turkish media report claiming Tehran had sent some of its forces in Syria to fight alongside the Houthi group in Yemen,...

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said today that it had intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone fired by Houthis towards Saudi Arabia, Anadolu Agency reports. A brief statement said the...

I've read several books on Islam's Sunni-Shia split, with each having provided informative insights on this ancient schism steeped in both theology and politics. The latter is the primary...

Flash floods in Yemen brought on by heavy torrential rain have left several people dead and caused widespread damage to homes and buildings in the historic town of Tarim,...

Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said yesterday that the Islamic Republic is ready to hold talks with Saudi Arabia "at any level and in any form"....

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said early on Sunday that Saudi air defenses intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone launched by Iran-aligned Houthis towards the Saudi city of...

US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking met on Friday with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman to discuss a comprehensive political solution to Yemen's civil war, Anadolu...

The fate of four Yemeni journalists is in the hands of US President Joe Biden, Dr Khalid Ibrahim and Dr Ikram Ais have told me as they explained the...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif has met with the spokesman for the Houthi movement, Mohammed Abdul Salam. The meeting took place yesterday during Zarif's visit to Oman. The minister...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said on Tuesday that Riyadh is ready to support the Houthis in Yemen if the movement expresses readiness to stop attacking the kingdom....

Yemen's Southern Transitional Council (STC) yesterday rejected President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi's decision to dismiss a high-ranking security commander loyal to the council, Anadolu reported. "Today, the Yemeni presidential system leaked...

The Yemeni Prime Minister, Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed, arrived yesterday in the eastern province of Hadhramaut for the first time since he fled the interim capital Aden to Saudi Arabia in March, where the UN-recognised government in exile has been...

Yemen's Houthi have achieved significant gains towards the strategic city of Marib, the internationally-recognised government's last northern stronghold, AFP reported. Military officials in the pro-government forces said the Houthis have taken...

Yemen's Houthi movement said on Sunday it had attacked and hit a military air base in southern Saudi Arabia with a drone, but the Saudi-led coalition fighting the group...

Houthis in Yemen said that they targeted an airbase in southern Saudi Arabia with an explosive-laden drone, Anadolu Agency reports. "The UAV air force (of the group) managed to retarget...

Iran's support for Yemen's Houthi movement is "quite significant and it's lethal," US special envoy on Yemen Tim Lenderking said on Wednesday, as he called a battle for Yemen's...

Yemen's COVID-19 vaccination campaign began in government-held areas on Tuesday three weeks after the first shipment from the global COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme arrived in the war-torn country, Reuters reported. Yemen on...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Yemen yesterday warned that more than one million displaced Yemenis are at risk due to the ongoing fighting in the Marib Governorate....

A senior Saudi official has denied holding secret talks between the kingdom and Iran. The Saudi official's remarks came hours after the Financial Times reported that Riyadh and Tehran held direct talks...

Senior Saudi and Iranian officials have held direct talks in a bid to repair their relations, four years after they cut off diplomatic ties, the Financial Times reported on...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has recommended the Security Council to refer cases of conflict-related sexual violence in a number of countries to the International Criminal Court (ICC). The countries...

Yemen's Houthi rebels have killed and wounded more than 3,500 Yemeni teachers over the past six years, the Yemeni Teachers Syndicate has reported. The Yemeni Teachers Syndicate issued a...

Iranian-backed Houthis are looking to prosecute Yemeni model Entisar Hammadi for violating traditional Islamic dress codes

Anti-war activists in the US are staging a hunger-strike in protest at American support for the Saudi-led coalition's war and blockade against Yemen, currently in its sixth year. The...

Yemen's Houthi group used drones and missiles to attack targets in the southern Saudi city of Jazan, it said today, including one belonging to state oil giant Aramco which caused a fire, Reuters reported. There...

When Ethiopian migrant Jamal Hussein boarded a UN-run repatriation flight out of Yemen, he ended a journey through the war-torn country that he had hoped would take him to...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has described Yemen as a "dangerous place for stranded migrants" and has called to help immigrants "return to their homes safely". "Yemen is...

Yemen's Houthi group on Monday announced that a UN tanker carrying oil has arrived in the war-torn country. The General Director of the Houthi-run Oil Company, Ammar Al-Ada'I, said...

The only solution to end the war in Yemen is through negotiations and the warring factions must seize this opportunity, UN's special envoy on Yemen said in Berlin on...

Yemen's Houthi movement said today it had fired 17 drones and two ballistic missiles at targets in Saudi Arabia, including Saudi Aramco facilities in Jubail and Jeddah, Reuters reported. There...