Mohammed bin Salman’s rise to Saudi Arabia’s crown prince may have a devastating impact on Yemen, as the war he masterminded drags on, a report by Middle East Eye stated citing analysts. As deputy crown [ More … ]
Yemen’s foreign minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi announced that the internationally-recognised government accepted the UN proposal for the strategic Red Sea coast city of Hodeidah. Yemen’s exiled government confirmed that it has agreed to a UN backed [ More … ]
Turkey says it is ready to help defuse the diplomatic spat between Qatar and Arab nations including Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Turkey on Monday has offered to help defuse the row between Qatar and several [ More … ]
A fifteen-day battle to capture an important military base to the east of Taiz was concluded in Yemen on Sunday, after Saudi-led coalition forces overpowered rebel fighters. Government troops reportedly killed 20 rebel Houthi fighters [ More … ]
A number of Arab nations cut off relations with Qatar on Monday morning, accusing it of ‘sponsoring terrorism’. The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Gen. Khalifa Haftar in Libya all cut off [ 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 … ]
The Türkiye Diyanet Foundation (TDV) sent 1,500 packages of food aid Wednesday for the needy in Yemen’s Taiz province The Yemeni Association for Social Improvement and Prosperity will distribute the food aid, which was sent [ More … ]
More than 17 million people desperately need food in Yemen, including 6.8 million who are ‘one step’ away from famine. Civil war is causing Yemen to spiral toward total collapse with the threat of famine [ 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 … ]
The Saudi King Salman Center for Humanitarian Aid and Relief (KSRelief) has launched rapid response efforts to combat and contain cholera in Yemen, initiating a number of activities in this regard. Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, adviser [ More … ]
Houthi shells targeting residential areas in Taiz have killed and injured dozens in the span of three days, as the city struggles with a salary crisis and a cholera epidemic. Houthi militias heavily shelled residential [ More … ]
Yemen’s UN envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh survived an alleged assassination attempt in Sanaa on Monday, the foreign ministry said, after shots were fired when pro-rebel protesters stormed his car. The UN’s Yemen envoy survived an [ More … ]
The General People’s Congress lost its mouthpiece publication on Tuesday, after Houthi rebels banned the al-Mithaq newspaper, in what seems to be deepening tensions between the former allies. Yemen’s Houthi rebels banned a newspaper owned [ More … ]
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) says it sent military recruits for training on Yemen’s Socorta Island where its troops have been stationed. UAE’s state-run WAM news agency on Monday night described the training on Socotra [ More … ]
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