The US military has launched cruise missile strikes to knock out three coastal radar sites in areas of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebel forces, in retaliation to missile attacks at its Navy ship. Thursday’s strikes, authorised by President Barack Obama, represent Washington’s first direct military action against Houthi-controlled targets in[…]
Yemen’s government dismissed as a “maneuver” on Thursday the Houthis’ acceptance of a U.N.-sponsored peace plan and demanded that the Iran-backed group hand back territory it has seized since last year. A Western diplomat, however, said that the Houthis had expressed acceptance of U.N. Security Council demands for an end[…]
The Houthi rebels in Yemen have said they are willing to commit to a peace plan to end the country’s conflict, and the UN has announced that its envoy is going to the region to see how Yemen’s government will respond. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday that the[…]
Two US citizens, one British national and three Saudis held for months by Yemen’s Houthi group, have been freed and have arrived in Oman, according to British and Omani officials as well as Houthi sources. Their release appeared to be a goodwill gesture before talks between Houthis and the UN[…]
Saudi Arabian troops have crossed into northern Yemen for the first time since the conflict with Houthi rebels began in March. Footage published on Wednesday showed soldiers taking positions in a mountainous area overlooking the southern Saudi province of Jizan. Houthi shelling and rocket attacks on the border have killed[…]
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition hit Yemen’s Red Sea port of Hodeida on Tuesday, and officials there said the raids destroyed cranes and warehouses in the main entry point for aid supplies to the north of the country. Hodeida, controlled by Iranian-allied Houthi forces, has become a focal point of[…]
Saudi-backed forces loyal to Yemen’s exiled government have announced the recapture of Abyan province in a southern offensive that has seen key gains against the Houthi rebels. Military officials who back President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said on Tuesday that loyalist forces have retaken Loder, the last town in Abyan to[…]
Forces loyal to Yemen’s government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi recaptured a southern provincial capital from Houthi rebels and their allies on Sunday as they pressed an advance from Aden. Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, had been held by troops of the renegade 15th Brigade which remains loyal to[…]
At least 43 civilians were killed on Sunday in rebel bombing of Yemen’s second city of Aden, where Saudi-backed pro-government forces have advanced against Shia Houthi militia fighters, a health official said. More than 100 others were wounded in the bombing of the Dar Saad neighbourhood in the north of the[…]
The United Nations is scrambling to get Yemen peace talks in Geneva moving with both the exiled government and the Iran-backed Yemeni rebels accusing each other of trying to sabotage the process. The UN special envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, began shuttle diplomacy in Geneva trying to bridge[…]
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