Yemen

UN envoy urges Yemeni parties to pursue peace talks

Jul 30, 2016 12:56

The United Nations special envoy to Yemen has called on the Yemeni warring parties to pursue UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait for another week.
Militants blow up Sufi tomb in south Yemen

Jul 30, 2016 09:05

Saudi-backed militants in Yemen have destroyed the centuries-old mausoleum of a Sufi Muslim in the southwest of the country.
"Yemeni nation will not surrender"

Jul 30, 2016 00:57

Leader of Yemen's Ansarullah movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has called for a "resolution based on justice" to the conflict in the country, saying the nation will not surrender to the demands by the Saudi-backed party to the peace talks.
Fresh Saudi airstrikes kill five Yemeni civilians in Hajjah Province

Jul 29, 2016 10:39

At least five Yemeni civilians, including three women, have lost their lives in new Saudi airstrikes after the Saudi side said the peace talks in Kuwait came to an end without a deal.
US soldier killed in Yemen: Ansarullah

Jul 29, 2016 02:54

Citing evidence on the ground, Yemen’s Ansarullah movement says a US trooper has been killed in the war-battered country.
Ansarullah, allies agree to form governing board in Yemen

Jul 28, 2016 15:24

Yemen’s Ansarullah movement and former president Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party have reached a consensus to set up a governing council to run the conflict-ridden country, with a focus on fighting the Saudi aggression.
Yemenis kill 4 Saudi officers in retaliatory attacks

Jul 28, 2016 15:05

At least four Saudi military officers have reportedly been killed in a series of retaliatory attacks by Yemeni forces.
Civilian targets hit in fresh Saudi airstrikes in Yemen

Jul 28, 2016 09:44

Saudi warplanes have carried out a series of fresh airstrikes against residential neighborhoods across Yemen, but there is no immediate report on possible casualties and extent of damage.
Killing of civilians in Yemen’s Sarari village war crime: Iran

Jul 27, 2016 14:58

Iran has strongly condemned the killing of civilians in a village in southwestern Yemen as a “blatant crime against humanity.”
UN urges 'humanitarian' truce in Yemen’s Ta'izz

Jul 27, 2016 12:16

The United Nations has called for a humanitarian truce in Yemen’s southwestern province of Ta'izz as heavy fighting continues in the embattled region.