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62 children killed in Yemen, UN to discuss a humanitarian pause
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Saturday on Yemen after Russia called for a meeting to discuss a proposal for a humanitarian pause in...
Russia calls UN meeting to discuss a humanitarian pause in Yemen
The United Nations Security Council will meet on Saturday on Yemen after Russia called for a meeting to discuss a proposal for a humanitarian pause in...
Yemen rebels quit Aden palace after air raids: senior official
Rebel forces withdrew from Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s palace in his former southern stronghold Aden early Friday after overnight air...
With surge, Yemen rebels appear to be more than mere ‘Iranian proxies’
Yemeni rebels seized President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi’s palace in his former southern stronghold Aden Thursday, dealing a symbolic blow to the self-exiled...
Yemen rebels take central Aden district in blow to Saudi campaign
Yemen’s Houthi fighters and their allies seized a central Aden district on Thursday, residents said, striking a heavy blow to the Saudi-led coalition...
Yemen capital rocked overnight by ‘heaviest’ yet Arab raids
Explosions lit up the skies over Yemen’s capital overnight in the heaviest bombing raids yet in a six-day operation led by Saudi Arabia.
Arab leaders agree joint military force as Yemen airstrikes continue
Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen will continue until Shiite rebels there withdraw and surrender their weapons, a summit of Arab leaders decided Sunday, as...
Yemen airstrikes to continue until rebels withdraw, say Arab leaders
Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen will continue until Shiite rebels there withdraw and surrender their weapons, a summit of Arab leaders decided Sunday, as...
Proxy wars between Iran and Saudi Arabia reach new fury
Airstrikes on Sanaa herald Yemen’s emergence as the latest theater for the proxy war between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite-dominated Iran. The...
Yemen on brink of civil war as Shiite rebels seize key city of Taiz
Shiite militia in Yemen seized the airport in a key central city Sunday as deteriorating security prompted the UN Security Council to call an emergency...
At least 142 killed as four suicide bombers target mosques in Yemen
At least 142 people have been killed and hundreds more injured after four suicide bombers attacked two mosques in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. The bombers...
Beleaguered President renames Aden as Yemen’s ‘new capital’
Beleaguered President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled to Aden after escaping from Shiite militia controlling Sanaa, considers the southern port city to...
UN says ex-Yemen president Saleh stole billions as country battles collapse
Yemen’s ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is believed to have amassed between $32 billion and $60 billion through corruption during his 33 years in...
Yemen’s Hadi challenges Shiite ‘coup’ after fleeing Sanaa
Yemen’s beleaguered Western-backed president escaped house arrest and fled the capital to friendly territory Saturday, labelling as a coup the grab...
Former Yemen president flees capital after release by Houthi rebels
Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who resigned last month under pressure from Shiite militia, left Sanaa on Saturday after weeks under effective...
Battle lines drawn for a civil war in Yemen
Hundreds of Sunni tribesmen in the central Yemeni desert parade in pickup trucks toting heavy machine guns and singing martial songs to raise morale. Having...
UN Security Council demands Houthis step aside in Yemen
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution demanding that Shiite rebels immediately relinquish control of Yemen’s government...
Clashes between Shi’ite Houthis and Sunnis in Yemen leave 26 dead
Tens of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in several cities on Saturday against the rule of the Shi’ite Muslim Houthi movement as clashes between...
U.N. says Yemen on brink of civil war as U.S. assesses failures, next steps
The Obama administration’s senior counterterrorism official acknowledged Thursday that U.S.
Yemen’s turmoil ripples across region as embassies close
As Western diplomats and staff fled Yemen on Wednesday, concern widened over the increasing turmoil in the impoverished nation, with Saudi Arabia arming...
France third nation to leave Yemen as Al Qaeda splinter group pledges IS support
France will close its embassy in Yemen from Feb. 13 due to security concerns and has asked its citizens to leave the country as soon as possible, the embassy...
Pentagon: Yemen political unrest affecting U.S. counterterrorism efforts
The Pentagon on Tuesday acknowledged that Yemen’s political unrest was affecting its counterterrorism capabilities but said it was still training...
U.S. shutters Yemen embassy, undercutting counterterrorism ‘model’
President Barack Obama hailed Yemen as a “model” last year for U.S. counterterrorism efforts in the Middle East, but the coup by the Houthi...
Risk of civil war hangs over Yemen crisis talks
In talks that could pull Yemen back from the brink or pitch it into full-scale civil war, the powerful Houthi movement will attempt this week to draw rivals...
Yemen parliament postpones meeting on president resignation
Yemen’s parliament on Sunday again postponed an extraordinary session that had been due to discuss President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi’s resignation,...
Weakness of Yemen’s government undermines U.S. terror fight
As fighters from the Houthi group entered the presidential palace of the American-backed government in Yemen on Tuesday, U.S.
Yemen presidential palace under siege in apparent coup attempt
A top Yemen army commander warns that a full-fledged “coup” was underway and Houthi rebels have seized presidential palace in the capital of...
At least 30 killed by car bomb outside Yemen police academy
A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Yemen’s capital Sanaa early on Wednesday, killing around 30 and wounding more than 50 others, police...
70 Ethiopian migrants drown off coast of Yemen
At least 70 Ethiopians drowned when a boat used by smugglers to transport illegal migrants to Yemen sank in the Red Sea in rough weather, security authorities...
American, South African hostages die in rescue attempt in Yemen
American photojournalist Luke Somers and South African teacher Pierre Korkie have been killed during a rescue attempt by US and Yemeni forces.
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