Warplanes have carried out more than 30 strikes on the northwestern Yemeni provinces of Saada and Hajja near the border with Saudi Arabia, local officials and residents said. The air raids occurred after Yemeni rebels fired rockets and mortars into Saudi Arabia, killing at least two civilians and reportedly capturing[…]
Iran proposed Wednesday to hold UN talks on ending the conflict in Yemen at a neutral venue, pointing to the success of the talks on Afghanistan held in Germany in 2001. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was part of a coalition of Sunni Arab states led by Saudi Arabia that[…]
Two Iranian warships reached the Gulf of Aden just off the coast of Yemen on Wednesday, as Saudi Arabia said Iran had “absolutely no role to play” in the impoverished country. Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported that two warships had arrived at the Gulf of Aden, a strategic waterway[…]
Yemen’s Houthi fighters have condemned a UN Security Council resolution imposing an arms embargo on the group, saying the decision supported “aggression”. In a news flash on the group’s official television channel on Tuesday, the Houthis’ governing body, the Supreme Revolutionary Committee, said it “calls on the masses of the[…]
Saudi-led air strikes against suspected Houthi fighters in Yemen have continued for the 15th day, with intense fighting occurring in the southern city of Aden, where rockets have reportedly landed on houses.. The World Health Organisation says at least 643 people have died and more than 2,200 have been injured[…]
Rebel forces have withdrawn from Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s palace in his former southern stronghold in Aden after overnight air raids by the Saudi-led coalition, a senior official said. “The Houthi militia and their allies withdrew before dawn from the Al-Maashiq palace,” the official in Aden, who did not[…]
Houthi forces pulled back from positions in central Aden after air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition, residents of the southern Yemeni port city said. They said a unit of Houthi and allied fighters, who had advanced in tanks and armoured vehicles through Aden’s Khor Maksar district 24 hours earlier, pulled[…]
At least 40 people were killed Monday in an airstrike on a refugee camp in north-western Yemen, an official said as Houthi rebels advanced on the southern city of Aden despite air raids by a Saudi-led coalition. About 200 people were wounded in the airstrike on the Mazraq refugee camp[…]
Yemeni rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi on Sunday raised the prospect of his forces moving on President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi’s temporary capital of Aden after Houthi fighters advanced into the key central city of Taiz. Local officials said Houthi fighters captured several state facilities in Taiz, including the airport, airbase,[…]
The UN Security Council passed a resolution Sunday “deploring” the Houthi rebel group’s actions in Yemen and demanding the cessation of violence and active participation of all parties in UN-backed negotiations. The council, which met Sunday for an emergency session to pass the resolution, took action on the situation in[…]
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