Yemen

In an effort to dissuade Yemen’s Huthi rebels from resuming their attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea, the United States urged on Tuesday to bolster an international naval task force. Huthis backed by Iran...

A missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels struck a Norwegian-flagged tanker off Yemen on Monday, US Central Command said, adding that no casualties were immediately reported. The Strinda “reported damage causing a fire on-board,” CENTCOM...

Iran on Monday dismissed as “invalid” Israel’s accusations that Yemen’s Huthi rebels were acting on Tehran’s “guidance” when they seized a Red Sea ship owned by an Israeli businessman. The Iran-backed rebels in Yemen seized the...

An earlier allegation made by the Iran-backed organization was confirmed by a senior US defense official on Wednesday: Yemen’s Huthi rebels shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone. The MQ-9 was spying as part of the...

Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned an attack on its territory that killed two Bahraini military personnel near the border with war-torn Yemen. Bahrain’s military said late Monday that one officer and one enlisted soldier had been...

The United Nations announced on Tuesday that it is prepared to begin salvage work on an oil ship with more than a million barrels of crude that is stuck off the coast of Yemen and poses...

The Red Cross-mediated prisoner exchange has fuelled expectations for an end to Yemen’s eight-year war between rebels backed by Iran and a coalition led by Saudi Arabia. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated...

Eight brutal years of conflict have devastated the lives of millions of children in Yemen and left 11 million children in need of one or more forms of humanitarian assistance, UNICEF said today, warning that, without...

According to security and local government sources who spoke to AFP on Wednesday, a senior Al-Qaeda leader was reportedly killed in a suspected US air attack in Yemen’s civil war. According to a security source who...

The United Nations said it needed $4.3 billion this year to help millions of people in war-ravaged Yemen, ahead of a donors’ conference on Monday. Aid agencies need the money to help more than 17 million...