Yemen

The UN-facilitated peace talks between Yemen's warring parties will resume next week in Geneva, the New York-based body has revealed. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the decisions by Yemen's exiled...

Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin yesterday called on the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to "move quickly and announce the date for peace talks...

How a former al-Qaeda fighter turned informer for Yemen's government, only to conclude it was duping Washington. Hani Mujahid chose to tell his story to Al Jazeera because he...

Conflicts and prolonged crises in a number of Arab states "have seen overall prevalence of undernourishment (PoU) increase from the level of a quarter of a century ago", the...

On Sunday, the spokesperson for the Yemeni government-in-exile, Rajeh Badi, told Reuters that it had been told that Houthi representatives had flown to Muscat on a private jet at...

Official sources in Egypt have said that Cairo has conveyed to Riyadh its concern over what it describes as "an exaggeration" in opening up to the Muslim Brotherhood in...

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh claimed on Friday that the Saudi authorities had offered him millions of US dollars in order to fight against the Houthi militias, AFP...

Two major developments in Somalia and Djibouti have attracted international media attention recently. John Kerry became the first US Secretary of State to visit Mogadishu, whilst China has negotiated...

Two months after the start of the Saudi-led Operation Decisive Storm, Houthi militias announced on Friday that they have attacked targets inside Saudi Arabia, Anadolu Agency reported. In the...

The best way to explain Oman, both historically and in the midst of the current crisis facing the Gulf, is to say it puts its long term security first....

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon asked his envoy to Yemen on Tuesday to postpone talks in Geneva at the request of the Yemeni government and other stakeholders, Anadolu has reported....

Saudi-led coalition warplanes yesterday struck a second home owned by the son of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital Sanaa. Plumes of smoke were seen billowing...

Iran has summoned Saudi Arabia's envoy to Tehran late yesterday in protest over a rocket attack near the Iranian embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, according to a statement...

Egypt's foreign minister has expressed his hope that all of the relevant Yemeni parties will reach a peaceful political agreement that preserves the stability and territorial integrity of the...

The Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union on Sunday have agreed to resolve the Yemeni conflict based on UN Security Council Resolution 2216. In a joint statement issued...

Yemen's Houthi group yesterday made its participation in a UN-sponsored conference on Yemen in Geneva later this month conditional on the halt of an ongoing air offensive launched by...

The Iranian aid ship which was heading to Yemen with aid is sailing to Djibouti to be inspected by United Nations officials. A semi-official Iranian news source reported yesterday...

The conference in Riyadh for Yemeni national dialogue began this week. An invitation to attend was extended to all parties, including those linked to the party of ousted President...

Secretary General of the Iraqi Baath Party Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri verbally assaulted ISIS and Iran, and hailed the Saudi-led alliance targeting Houthi militias in Yemen, reports said on Friday....

Abdul Malek Al Houthi shows up from time to time on Yemeni television. These days there is not a single day that passes by without his face on appearing...

Yemen's humanitarian situation has been deteriorating since the beginning of the airstrikes. The conflicts that have pelted Yemen over the past few decades have put the country in a...

Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has recalled his country's ambassador from Tehran "expeditiously", a local source has revealed. In an exclusive statement to Anadolu, the anonymous source said...

The vice president of the Iranian chief of staff, Brigadier General Massoud Gazaery, has warned the US and Saudi Arabia against stopping an Iranian ship carrying aid to Yemen....

Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, yesterday warned of the repercussions of a ground operation to resolve the crisis in Yemen. In an interview with...

Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, said yesterday that the UN is in contact with Iran over the Iranian aid ship heading to Yemen, the Anadolu Agency reported....

The United States yesterday called on Iran to direct an aid cargo ship bound for Yemen to the United Nations aid distribution centre in Djibouti, the Anadolu Agency reported....

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi announced yesterday that the buffer zone with the Gaza Strip has been expanded to three kilometres in some places and around 80 per cent...

Reporters from Turkey's Anadolu news agency recorded three breaches of Yemen's humanitarian truce within the first 90 minutes of the agreement beginning on Tuesday evening at 20.00 GMT. One...

Deposed Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh denied on Monday that he is specifically an ally of Houthi militia Ansarullah Group. He stressed instead that he is an ally of...

Over the past few weeks, much of the coverage on the Yemeni conflict has reduced it to a simple case of sectarianism. Sunni and Shia are words plastered over...

Saudi has led a military offensive in Yemen to foil a regional plot by a sectarian group that aimed to destabilise regional security, Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz said...

The identical political positions displayed by Moscow and Tehran regarding most of the key issues in the Middle East raise questions about the nature of Russia-Iran relations; Moscow's stance...