Arab coalition nations have resumed air strikes against Houthi fighters in Yemen as a UN envoy called for an extension of a five-day humanitarian ceasefire that expired late Sunday. The coalition targeted Houthi rebel positions in al-Sawlaban and al-Arish in Aden province, Saudi military officials said early on Monday. Al-Masirah[…]
Yemen’s Houthi fighters have boycotted a dialogue conference in the Saudi capital as the country’s exiled President opened a three-day event aimed at confronting the lingering crisis. President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and around 400 delegates gathered in Riyadh on Sunday, with leading factions including the Sunni[…]
Yemen’s Houthi fighters have been accused of breaking the country’s humanitarian ceasefire in its first 24 hours, as fighting continued between rival sides in several parts of the country. “The Houthi militias have violated the truce,” the Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia said in a statement on Thursday carried[…]
A five-day humanitarian ceasefire has begun in Yemen, just hours after Arab coalition fighter jets struck against Houthi fighters and their allies. It was not immediately clear if the two sides were honouring the truce, which began at 11pm local time [20:00GMT] on Tuesday. The pause in the fighting, which[…]
Saudi Arabia announced on Monday that a strike force had arrived on the border with Yemen. It happened as Yemen’s Houthi militia and the Saudi-led coalition forces traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas on Monday, residents said, on the eve of a five-day humanitarian truce. The Houthis[…]
Yemen’s Houthi fighters and Saudi Arabian forces have traded heavy artillery and rocket fire in border areas, residents say, a day before a proposed ceasefire. The Houthis said they fired Katyusha rockets and mortars on the Saudi cities of Jizan and Najran on Monday, after the Saudis hit Saada and[…]
A Moroccan F-16 warplane taking part in a bombing campaign in Yemen led by Saudi Arabia has gone missing, the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces has said in a statement. Morocco announced its backing of Saudi Arabia since the beginning of the military offensive in March, and has had F-16 warplanes[…]
Saudi Arabia said on Sunday that the purpose of launching Operation Decisive Storm was to prevent foreign forces from using Yemen as a base for regional conspiracies and transforming it into a stage for terrorism. “By launching Decisive Storm, Saudi Arabia’s only intention was to support the Yemeni people,” said[…]
Houthi fighters have said in a statement that they would deal “positively” with any efforts to lift the suffering of the Yemeni people, a sign that they could accept a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by Saudi Arabia. The Houthis political council said on Sunday that they would like to see humanitarian[…]
Yemen’s mission to the United Nations has called for a ground intervention to push back a Houthi rebel offensive in the south of a country where conditions are deteriorating after weeks of fighting. “We urge the international community to quickly intervene by land forces to save Yemen, especially Aden and[…]
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