Aerial attacks on oil pipeline deep inside Saudi Arabia suggest significant leap in Houthi drone capabilities. Drone attacks on a Saudi oil pipeline west of Riyadh on Tuesday have revealed an apparent significant leap in [ More … ]
Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in clashes and air raids around the Yemeni city of Hodeidah following the collapse of UN-sponsored peace talks between the internationally recognised government and Houthi rebels. Fears of escalation after UN-sponsored peace [ More … ]
Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may amount to war crimes, United Nations human rights experts said [ More … ]
UN warns of devastating consequences for 250,000 Hudaida residents as Saudi-led coalition targets Houthi rebels in port city. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have launched an assault on Yemen’s port city of Hudaida, in the [ More … ]
Tensions between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and their ally deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh have reached boiling point in recent hours threatening to erupt into armed conflict between the two sides Tensions between Yemen’s Houthi rebels [ More … ]
This year’s UN report that blacklists violators of children’s rights has accused the Saudi-led coalition of killing hundreds of children in Yemen, reports suggest. Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Coalition, Report, UN, Children, The Saudi-led military coalition [ More … ]
Continued attacks on shipping in the busy Yemeni strait and an impending Saudi-led offensive on a nearby port could worsen the country’s humanitarian situation, activists have warned. An oil tanker has come under attack from [ More … ]
Forces backed by the United Arab Emirates have taken over the airport in Yemen’s southern city of Aden, according to Yemeni security officials Forces backed by the United Arab Emirates have taken over the airport [ More … ]
Oman is mediating between Yemeni rivals over peace plans presented last week by UN special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. Oman is mediating between Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s government and its Houthi opponents [ More … ]
The bacterial infection was at large instigated by the Houthi-run Sana’a government’s neglect of environmental hygiene, experts say. The number of deaths from the cholera epidemic in Yemen has surpassed 470, according to figures released [ More … ]
Humanitarian groups on Wednesday demanded access to civilians on the brink of famine in Yemen, describing the two-year civil war in the Arab world’s poorest state as an “open-air massacre”. Tags: Yemen, Famine, Civilians, Blockade, [ More … ]
The United Nations on Monday rejected a call by the Saudi-led coalition battling rebels in Yemen for the key port of Hodeidah to be placed under its supervision. Tags: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Houthis, Hodeidah, [ More … ]
Somalia’s government is blaming the Saudi-led coalition for an attack on a boat that killed at least 42 Somali refugees off the coast of war-torn Yemen. Somalia’s government on Saturday blamed the Saudi-led coalition for [ More … ]
An air strike by a Saudi-led Arab coalition on a market in Yemen killed 20 civilians and six rebels on Friday, medical and military sources said. The aircraft tried to target rebels at a roadblock [ More … ]
– Bombardment on funeral procession kills more than 140 victims in Sanaa – United Nations aid envoy Stephen O’Brien said he was “horrified and extremely disturbed” by an attack on a funeral ceremony in Yemen that [ More … ]
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