Yemen

Emirati forces have been accused of displacing local residents from Yemen's Socotra archipelago in preparation to establish a military base on the island of Abd Al-Kuri. Yesterday they continued...

A car bomb attack on the convoy of a Yemeni military official in the southern port city of Aden killed at least six people and wounded several others on...

Millions more Yemenis are predicted to be at risk of starvation later this year, after the World Food Programme (WFP) announced further cuts to its food aid in Yemen....

Yemen warned Saturday that its wheat stock is about to run out amid the repercussions of the Russian war on Ukraine, Anadolu Agency reports. "The global food crisis and the...

At least 10 Yemeni soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in south Yemen, believed to have been carried out by Al-Qaeda militants, officials and state news agency, Saba,...

A Yemeni journalist was killed in a car explosion in Aden late yesterday, police said, in the latest incident of violence in Yemen's southern port city, Reuters reports. Initial investigations indicated that...

Saudi Arabia announced late Tuesday that it has added 19 Yemeni individuals and entities to its terrorist list, Anadolu News Agency reports. The eight Yemenis and 11 entities were...

The United Nations has launched a public crowd-funding drive that aims to raise $5 million towards an operation to avoid an oil spill from a decaying tanker stranded off...

Saudi Arabia has pledged $10 million to help finance an operation to prevent a possible oil spillage in the Red Sea from the abandoned FSO Safer off the coast of Yemen....

Leader of Yemen's Houthi movement Abdul-Malik Al-Houthi said yesterday that Saudi Arabia has sought to purchase defence systems from Israel to intercept missiles launched by the group against the...

The United Nations envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg arrived in Sanaa yesterday where he will meet with the Houthis and discuss the reopening of roads in the Taiz governorate and extending...

Kuwait said, Wednesday, that it plans to appoint an ambassador and a project coordinator in war-torn Yemen, Anadolu News Agency reports. Kuwaiti Crown Prince, Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah,...

According to the United Nations (UN), the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen and the Houthis have extended their truce for a further two months. This follows an initial two-month truce...

More than 10,000 kids  have been killed since the start of the Saudi-led war against the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen in 2015

Three non-governmenatal organisations (NGOs) said on Thursday they had filed a lawsuit at a Paris court against three top French arms' producers for alleged war crimes complicity in Yemen...

Last week, Iraq's Parliament passed a new law criminalising normalisation with Israel, becoming the first Arab country to formally ban normalisation with Israel. The motion was described in a...

The first commercial flight in nearly six years took off on Wednesday from Sana'a in war-torn Yemen to the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Anadolu News Agency report. "A flight carrying...

A mixed naval exercise launched today off the Saudi Red Sea coast of Jeddah. Led by the Western Fleet, the 'Red Wave 5' drill will include the participation of...

Egypt has agreed to allow direct flights between Yemen's Sanaa and Cairo as part of the UN-brokered truce between Yemen's internationally recognised government and the Houthi-led National Salvation Government (NSG) based...

Yemen is searching for new wheat suppliers but will need help to pay for increasingly costly imports, an official and a main importer said, as the World Food Programme...

Women impacted by war and conflict are made to overcome a number of immense challenges. Rape and sexual violence, for example, are commonly used as weapons of war to...

The Yemeni government yesterday demanded the United States pressure the Houthi group in order to lift the siege imposed on the city of Taiz, Anadolu news agency reported. This came during...

A member of the Supreme Political Council in Sanaa, Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi, announced a peace initiative in the governorate of Taiz, southwest of Yemen, calling on pro-coalition parties to...

The first commercial flight took off yesterday from Yemen's Sanaa International Airport after a hiatus of nearly six years due to a blockade imposed by the Saudi-led coalition. The breakthrough comes...

Yemen's government has agreed to allow Houthi-issued passport holders to travel outside Yemen, three officials said on Thursday, removing a major obstacle that had stalled resumption of commercial flights from the...

Civilian casualties in Yemen have decreased by more than 50 per cent since the start of the two-month truce early last month, according to a press release yesterday by the Norwegian...

The Head of a political and economic union of Gulf countries held talks on Monday with the UN envoy to Yemen on efforts to end the eight-year conflict in...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Sunday said it has distributed humanitarian assistance to nearly 66,000 displaced Yemenis in the past six months, Anadolu Agency reported. In a...

The explosion would potentially be four times worse than the Exxon Valdez spill  near Alaska in 1989

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen announced on Friday that it transferred more than 100 released prisoners to Yemen, in coordination with the International Committee of the Red Cross, as...

The Saudi-led Arab coalition said, on Friday, that a plane carrying Houthi prisoners took off from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, Anadolu News Agency reports. The Saudi Press Agency quoted...

The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, made an unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia last month to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, according to...