Yemen

The US Navy said on Wednesday it was establishing a new multinational task force that would target arms smuggling in the waters around Yemen, the latest American military response...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken apologised to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last month for the US response to attacks on the emirates from Yemen's Houthi rebels, according to...

Around 30,000 Yemeni civilians have been displaced from their homes in war-torn Yemen in the past three months, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on Monday, and Anadolu...

The UN Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, arrived in the rebel-held capital, Sana'a, on Monday, for the first time since taking office nine months ago, Anadolu News Agency reports....

Twitter has suspended the Arabic-language account of the spokesperson for the Houthi-aligned Yemeni armed forces, Brigadier General Yahya Saree. The account was taken down on Saturday. At the time...

The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate said yesterday it had monitored 20 violations against journalists and media professionals within the first three months of the year. The body said in a...

The Saudi-led coalition in the ongoing war in Yemen has an outstanding payment to the US for the sum of $17 million. The debt remains unpaid more than three...

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has dismissed Vice President Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and delegated his full powers to the newly formed eight-member Presidential Council to govern the country through...

The United Nations (UN) on Friday has called on the two sides of the conflict in Yemen to "exercise restraint", while the Yemeni government and the Ansar Allah group...

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Yemen yesterday announced a return of their ambassadors to Lebanon in a sign of improving ties that hit rock bottom last year when the kingdom...

The top US General said, on Thursday, that he does not support removing Iran's Quds Force, an arm of its Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), from a list of foreign terrorist...

Saudi-backed Yemeni President, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, on Thursday, ceded power to a Council whose members form the core of an anti-Houthi alliance as Saudi Arabia looks to exit a...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Salman, on Thursday met with the newly-formed Yemen's Presidential Council headed by Rashad Al-Alimi. According to the Saudi official news agency, SPA,...

Arab countries have welcomed the formation of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council, headed by Rashad Al-Alimi, as well as the urgent financial support provided by Saudi Arabia and the United...

The president of the exiled, internationally-recognised Yemeni government, Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, has handed over presidential powers to a newly established council

The UN Envoy for Yemen expressed concern on Wednesday about violations of a cease-fire in the war-wrecked country, in terms of upholding the first nationwide truce in six years,...

Yemeni journalists and media professionals have called on the United Nations to include the four journalists sentenced to death by the Houthis in any future prisoner exchange deal. "For...

The Yemeni army announced yesterday evening that it had monitored 130 violations of the ceasefire committed by the Houthis in seven governorates, in just one day. A statement issued...

The Yemeni government yesterday announced its need for economic support on three levels to prevent the collapse of state institutions and the country from slipping into famine. The official...

Aqeel bin Thabet, a university professor in the Yemeni city of Aden, used to buy one or two sheep to eat during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan but, because of...

Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak warned of the collapse of the truce with the Houthis, which he said had become threatened due to the group's violations. Bin...

At least 1,929 civilians have been killed by landmines used by the Houthis in the ongoing seven years of war in Yemen, the Yemeni Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights...

The Yemeni army and the Houthis yesterday accused each other of breaching the truce announced by the UN to cease all military activity in Yemen hours after it came...

The humanitarian needs of Yemenis are "enormous and beyond imagination," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen warned yesterday. It said the UN truce declared in Yemen is very...

The British government's plans to designate Yemen's Houthi movement as a terrorist group risk worsening the humanitarian crisis in the country, leading aid agencies have warned in a letter...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has welcomed the announcement of a U.N.-brokered truce in Yemen and the halt of all military operations there and on the Saudi-Yemeni border, the...

UK to designate Houthis as terrorists risks disaster in Yemen

Saudi Arabia welcomed a two-month truce brokered by the United Nations in war-torn Yemen.

The Saudi-backed Yemeni government said on Friday it supported a ceasefire proposed by the United Nations that would also ease sea and air restrictions imposed on areas controlled by...

The International Organisation for Migration warned on Friday that over 25.5 million Yemenis are living beneath the poverty line due to the repercussions of the war in the country...

Muslim scholars called on Islamic countries to reach people in need, especially in war and conflict zones ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Anadolu News Agency reports....

Saudi Arabia has added 25 people and entities from different nationalities to its terrorism list, saying they are involved in financing Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement, Reuters reported on Thursday....