UN-sponsored talks aimed at ending the conflict in Yemen by bringing representatives of rival factions to Geneva are expected to begin on Monday, the world body says. Announcing the start of “preliminary inclusive consultations” in the Swiss city on Monday, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the UN’s peace envoy for Yemen, said[…]
After 11 weeks of air strikes that have failed to change the balance of power in Yemen, Saudi Arabia is running out of options to restore President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi’s exiled government to Sanaa. Despite the destruction of much of their heavy weaponry, the Houthi militia and army forces loyal[…]
At least 44 Yemeni soldiers have been killed and more than a hundred injured in an air strike while they were waiting to collect salaries at the Yemeni army headquarters in the capital Sanaa, according to the Houthi-run Saba news agency. Earlier on Sunday, army officials said that four explosions[…]
Saudi Arabia has said it has shot down a Scud missile fired into the kingdom by Houthi rebels and forces allied to the former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. “At 2:45am on Saturday morning, the Houthi militias and ousted [president] Ali Abdullah Saleh launched a Scud missile in the[…]
Brigadier Ammar Mohammed Abdullah Saleh, the nephew of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, has been dismissed by presidential decree from his role as a military attache in Ethiopia. Thursday’s announcement came on the same day that former al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) informant Hani Muhammad Mujahid told Al[…]
Officials within the government of the former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh worked with al-Qaeda ahead of a 2008 attack on the US Embassy in Sanaa which resulted in 19 deaths, it is claimed on Thursday. It is alleged that Saleh’s security chiefs ignored repeated warnings that the embassy would[…]
A Saudi-led coalition Wednesday targeted the headquarters of Yemen’s special forces in the capital, Sana’a, killing at least 30 people, medical officials said. A health ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said most of the dead were special forces troops, and at least 100 people had also been injured.[…]
Pro-government fighters have retaken a southern Yemeni city from Shiite rebels in their first significant advance since a Saudi-led coalition began striking the rebels in late March. Officials and witnesses in the southwestern city of Dhale said Tuesday that pro-government fighters also captured the command center of the 33rd Armored[…]
An Iranian aid ship now anchored at Djibouti Port will not go to Yemen, but its contents will be carried to the troubled country by a United Nations (UN) World Food Program ship, an official from Djibouti said Saturday. The source, who asked not to be named, said the Iranian[…]
The UN announced Wednesday a date for its conference on Yemen. But Yemen’s Riyadh-based government swiftly demanded a pullback of the Iran-backed Shiite rebels from seized territory as a precondition to joining the talks set for May 28 in Geneva. The developments came as Tehran headed off a potential confrontation[…]
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