Development comes after UN envoy met Houthis before heading for Saudi Arabia to ensure implementation of a recent deal. A fresh round of talks between Yemen’s warring factions may take place soon in Jordan, according [ More … ]
US senators backed measure accusing MBS of ordering Khashoggi’s murder, urged the end to support for Saudi-led Yemen war. Saudi Arabia has denounced as “blatant interference” a resolution by the US Senate accusing the kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin [ More … ]
Aid group Save the Children analysed UN data and found tens of thousands of kids under 5 perished from severe hunger. As many as 85,000 children in Yemen starved to death in the past three [ More … ]
Washington Post and AP report US intelligence officials concluded Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, US [ More … ]
The Saudi-led military coalition has been accused of bombing multiple civilian targets, including hospitals. Saudi Arabia has been accused of attempting to shut down a UN-backed war crimes investigation inYemen where thousands of civilians have died in the [ 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 … ]
The Saudi -led coalition has been criticised repeatedly for targeting civilian areas in their attacks in Yemen, but the images of children covered in blood still appear to have shocked the world. The Saudi -led [ More … ]
As the Saudi-UAE offensive on the Yemeni port city of Hudaida continues and intensifies, there seems to be no solution that will serve the people of the city. Despite his efforts, the UN special envoy [ 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 … ]
Yemen’s collapse derives from a combination of internal rivalries between elites, rising demands of a poor population, and international interventions, both from the neoliberal international financiers and the politically-motivated actors in support or opposition to [ More … ]
“Only Death” Will Stop Me From Ruling the kingdom, Mohammed bin Salman said in his first interview with an American television network, Mohammed bin Salman shared his thoughts on Iran, the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, his [ More … ]
Army chief of staff, ministers and top commanders of ground and air defence forces replaced, in series of royal decrees. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has fired his top military commanders and reshuffled his cabinet in [ More … ]
Yemen could face “the largest famine the world has seen for many decades, with millions of victims,” if the Saudi Arabia-led coalition does not lift a blockade on the war-torn country, a senior UN aid [ More … ]
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