The United Arab Emirates awarded 20 billion dirhams worth ($5.5 billion) of military procurement contracts during a defence show this week, at a time when arms sales to the...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday a woman born in the United States who joined the Daesh militant group did not qualify for US citizenship and...

Yemeni Information Minister Muammar Al-Iryani said that the Houthis have taken over the house of late Palestinian president Yasser Arafat in Sanaa, Arabi21 reported yesterday. Al-Iryani revealed the takeover...

Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to start withdrawing forces from the main port of Hudaydah under a UN-sponsored deal, the United Nations said, following weeks of diplomacy to salvage...

Thousands of Yemenis yesterday participated in rallies across the country, including the capital Sana’a, to reject normalisation with Israel and attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause. The participants rejected...

Yemen’s Houthi group yesterday announced that it had taken control over a number of sites inside the Saudi territory. Pro-Houthi SABA reported that the group’s “army forces and popular committees...

Yemeni government and Houthi representatives have reached an agreement on the first phase of their redeployment of forces under a UN-sponsored deal for the warring armies to leave the...

Iran is ready to work with all of its neighbours to secure peace in the Middle East in the face of US and Israeli aggression, President Hassan Rouhani said...

The National Committee to Investigate Alleged Violations of Human Rights in Yemen said yesterday that it has filed 3,000 cases against perpetrators of crimes against humanity in order to...

Republican and Democratic members of the US Senate asked the Trump administration on Thursday to tell them more about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate...

Starvation, disease and a lack of aid are killing 300 babies a day in war zones around the world, with the number of children caught up in conflicts nearing...

Displaced by war, starving and living under a tree, 12-year-old Fatima Qoba weighed just 10kg when she was carried into a Yemeni malnutrition clinic. “All the fat reserves in...

The Democratic-led US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution that would end US support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, as many lawmakers...

Arms imports to the Middle East were doubled during the period from 2013-2017, compared to the region’s total arms imports in the previous five years, the Munich Security Report...

The Trump administration threatened on Monday to veto an effort in the US Congress to end US military support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen,...

Yemen’s Houthis have blamed the Saudi-led coalition for the death of conjoined twins after they were refused permission to leave the country for medical treatment. The twins died on...

The Saudi-backed government in Yemen hopes to scale up its crude production to 110,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2019, with exports touching about 75,000 bpd, its oil minister...

Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia for consultations, indicating apparent cracks in relations between the traditional Sunni Muslim allies over Yemen, Qatar and Western Sahara, Moroccan media said...

Asmaa Al-Omeissy is the first Yemeni woman to receive the death penalty

Morocco has recalled its ambassador to Saudi Arabia and withdrawn its military from the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, government officials confirmed last night. Speaking to pro-establishment news website Le360,...

Republican and Democratic US lawmakers renewed their push on Thursday to penalise Saudi Arabia for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and address the humanitarian crisis in Yemen,...

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...

The UN urged Yemen’s Houthi rebels Thursday to restore access to a grain storage site at a key port city after nearly a half-year blockade and a worsening famine...

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) yesterday called on the Arab coalition to reconsider the results of the investigation into the bombing of its facility in the Yemeni Hajjah...

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Conjoined twin boys born in Yemen are in urgent need of treatment abroad, but are unable to leave because the war there has closed the capital city’s airport. Doctors...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have transferred US weapons to Al-Qaeda linked terrorists and hard-line militias battling in Yemen against Houthi fighters, a CNN investigation has...

Representatives of the Yemeni government and Houthi opposition group began a new round of UN-brokered talks to finalise the prisoners swap deal in the Jordanian capital, Amman, yesterday. AFP...

Amnesty International accused the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday of diverting arms supplied by Western and other states to “unaccountable militias accused of war crimes” in Yemen, Reuters reports. The...

Saudi dissident Prince, Khalid bin Farhan said a Saudi opposition political group abroad will be launched next month under the name of “the Freedom Movement for the Sons of...

Pope Francis said on Tuesday he had found “good will” to start peace processes to end the conflict in Yemen, during private meetings with leaders of the United Arab...

A night of compelling debate at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Monday evening concluded with 63 per cent of the 1,000-strong audience voting for the motion that “The...