Truce offers glimmer of hope to Yemenis battered by seven-year war
Yemenis welcomed a nationwide UN-brokered ceasefire due to come into effect on Saturday evening as a glimmer of hope in a country ravaged by a...
Yemen-Saudi conflict
Yemen’s Houthis say they launched drone attack on Saudi’s Jizan airport
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it launched a drone attack on Jizan airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia early on Wednesday, part of an escalation of...
UN urges Yemen Houthi court to review 30 death sentences
Thirty men were sentenced to death by Houthi authorities in Yemen this week amid credible allegations that many were tortured during three years of politically-motivated...
More than 80,000 Yemeni children may have died from hunger
An estimated 85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger in Yemen since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in the civil war in 2015,...
Yemeni children die as warring sides block aid deliveries
Yemeni children are dying from starvation and disease as trucks with life-saving supplies are blocked in port, leaving medical staff and desperate mothers imploring aid...
British PM May backs call for de-escalation in Yemen
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday backed a US call for a cessation of hostilities in the Yemen war, a conflict that has killed...
Saudi-led coalition air strikes in Yemen may amount to war crimes – UN
Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may...
Dozens killed, including children on a bus, in Yemen air strikes
Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed dozens of people, including children travelling on a bus, in Yemen‘s Saada province, Yemeni medical sources and the International Committee...
US urges UN cooperation as fighting flares in Yemen
Amid new clashes in Yemen, the United States on Monday called on factions to work with the United Nations to end the more than three-year-old...
Saudi-led air strikes hit Yemen presidential palace
Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition bombed Yemen’s presidential palace in the centre of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa early on Monday, killing at least six people,...
