Yemen

Yemen warring parties discuss forming security committees: UN enovoy

Jun 15, 2016 10:05

The UN special envoy to Yemen said Wednesday that warring parties have discussed forming security committees to oversee a transition period aimed at ending Yemen’s conflict, which began with Saudi airstrikes in March 2015.
Saudi Arabia invites UN team over child abuse blacklist

Jun 15, 2016 09:56

Saudi Arabia has invited a UN team to Riyadh for talks after pressuring the world body into dropping the kingdom from a blacklist of children's rights violators.
Iran medics slam 'Saudi blackmail of UN over Yemen war'

Jun 14, 2016 15:28

Iran’s Academy of Medical Sciences has condemned the United Nations’ recent decision to cave in to pressure by Saudi Arabia over the blacklisting of the Riyadh regime for killing children in Yemen.
Pilot, co-pilot die as UAE helicopter goes down in Yemen

Jun 14, 2016 02:23

The pilot and copilot of a United Arab Emirates military helicopter have been killed after their aircraft crashed in Yemen.
Yemenis protest Saudi atrocities, UN blacklist decision

Jun 13, 2016 04:08

Yemeni people have taken to the streets in Sana’a to protest Saudi aggression against their country and the UN's removal of the kingdom from a blacklist of children's rights violators.
US drone attack kills two, injures one in southern Yemen

Jun 13, 2016 01:42

A US drone has struck a vehicle in southern Yemen, leaving two people dead and another injured, security sources say.
Rights Groups Urge UN to Put Saudi Arabia Back on Blacklist

Jun 09, 2016 15:30

Twenty human rights groups urged United Nations Chief Ban Ki-moon to put a Saudi Arabia back on a UN blacklist for killing and maiming children in its aggression against Yemen because the evidence against it was "overwhelming."
UK shamefully evading responsibility for Yemen deaths: Amnesty

Jun 07, 2016 07:22

Amnesty International has dismissed as “utterly shameful” the United Kingdom’s claims that no British-made cluster bombs have been used by Saudis against civilians in Yemen.
Soldiers in Saudi war don’t have to fast: Saudi mufti

Jun 07, 2016 07:18

For a second year in a row, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti has exempted troops participating in the war on Yemen from observing the religious obligation of fasting during Ramadan.
UN removes Saudi Arabia from child rights violators’ blacklist

Jun 07, 2016 07:09

The UN has submitted to a Saudi demand to remove the kingdom from a blacklist of child rights violators, less than a week after it blamed Riyadh for the killing of hundreds of Yemeni children.