Two senior officers from the Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s government have been killed near the city of Taiz, Saudi and Emirati authorities say. Saudi Colonel Abdullah al-Sahyan and Emirati officer Sultan al-Ketbi were killed at dawn on Monday “while they were carrying out their duties in supervising operations to liberate[…]
A seven-day ceasefire in Yemen is to start on Monday, a day before UN-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland, officials on both sides of a war that has killed nearly 6,000 people said. Yemen’s foreign minister, Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi, who will lead President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s delegation to the UN talks, said[…]
The United Nations food agency has warned that food supplies in Yemen are deteriorating quickly and the country is at risk of slipping into famine. Ten out of Yemen’s 22 governorates were now classified as facing food insecurity at “emergency” levels, which is one step below famine, the World Food Programme[…]
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) fighters have consolidated their grip on territory in southern Yemen after capturing the towns of Zinjibar and Ja’ar from pro-government forces. The AQAP fighters launched an offensive on the towns at dawn on Wednesday, local officials said. Al-Khader Haidan, a leader within the popular[…]
Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on the army in the eastern region of Hadramawt on Friday that a security source said killed at least 19 Yemeni soldiers and 35 militants. Earlier on Friday a different security source said Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was responsible for[…]
The US defence department has announced the release of five Yemeni men held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. The group, who had spent more than a decade in Guantanamo, were transferred to the UAE, the Pentagon said in a statement published on its website on Monday. The[…]
At least 1,300 civilians have been killed in violence that has increased in intensity over the past few weeks in the Yemeni city of Taiz, according to local monitoring groups. Among those killed were 198 children, the Local Monitor’s Network in Taiz said on Friday, adding that 6,000 others, including[…]
A Yemeni hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has been hit by a series of Arab-coalition air strikes, the medical aid group has said, the latest bombing of a civilian target in a seven-month air campaign. One person was injured and is in a stable condition after the attack[…]
At least 20 Houthi militia fighters were killed in heavy clashes in Yemen’s third-largest city Taiz on Thursday, a day after they pounded it with rockets, forces loyal to the government said. Taiz, considered Yemen’s cultural capital, has suffered huge destruction since becoming a main battleground in the conflict between[…]
Any potential peace talks in the Yemen conflict are now solely dependent on the Saudi-led coalition after Houthi rebels confirmed its commitment to entering UN resolution talks, according to Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee, based in Sana’a. Rebels have been engaged in a brutal civil-war with forces loyal to President Abd[…]
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