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Yemen warring parties agree to exchange over 1,000 prisoners

Yemen's warring parties have agreed to exchange around 1,000 prisoners, including 15 Saudis, as part of trust-building steps aimed at reviving a stalled peace process, the United Nations and Houthi media said on Sunday. The Yemeni government, backed by a Saudi-led military coalition, and the Houthi movement, who have been battling for over five years, signed a deal in late 2018 to swap some 15,000 detainees split between both sides, […]

28 September 2020

International News

UN Yemen envoy calls for probe into civilian deaths

The United Nations envoy for Yemen has called for a transparent investigation into air strikes that killed at least 11 civilians in al-Jawf province, saying resurgent violence is complicating UN-led efforts to end the five-year war. Security is deteriorating anew as Yemen faces the coronavirus pandemic and what the UN describes as the world's biggest humanitarian crisis, with millions on the verge of famine. The raids were the third such […]

17 July 2020

International News

Yemen president urges separatists to ‘stop the bloodshed’

Yemen's president has called on southern separatists to "stop the bloodshed" and abide by a power-sharing agreement in his first public comments since the secessionists declared autonomy in April. The conflict between the Southern Transitional Council (STC) and the internationally recognised government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi constitutes a second front in Yemen, already split by a war between government loyalists and Houthi rebels. The STC, which declared self-rule on […]

29 June 2020

International News

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition says downed Houthi drone over Najran

The Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen has said its forces intercepted and downed drones launched by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement towards the Saudi border city of Najran in the first such incident since late March. There was no immediate comment from the Houthi group about the attack, which comes after the expiry of a one-month ceasefire announced by the coalition on April 24 - an extension of a two-week truce […]

28 May 2020

International News

Red Cross pulls 71 foreign staff out of Yemen over security risks

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has pulled 71 of its international staff out of Yemen because of rising security threats. Some 450 ICRC employees remain in Yemen, including dozens of expatriate staff, spokeswoman Marie-Claire Feghali said. The aid agency urged all sides in the country's three-year war to provide security guarantees so its staff could keep running surgical, water and food assistance programmes, which it said had […]

8 June 2018

International News

Yemen’s Houthi rebels fire ballistic missile at Saudi capital

Yemen's Houthi rebels fired a ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, saying the projectile traveled more than 800km into the kingdom on Wednesday. Al Masirah, a TV network run by the Houthis, claimed responsibility for the attack on Twitter, saying the rebels fired a Burkan 2-H, a Scud-type missile, towards the Saudi defence ministry. Videos published on social media showed clouds of smoke in the sky above the capital. […]

12 April 2018

International News

Saudi forces intercept Riyadh-bound Houthi missile

A Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthi rebels says it has intercepted a missile fired from the neighbouring country towards the kingdom's capital, Riyadh. Houthi rebels said on Tuesday they had launched a ballistic missile targeting al-Yamama royal palace to mark 1,000 days since the coalition started its bombing campaign in Yemen. "This is our answer to them and to the whole world," Abdulmalik al-Houthi, the rebels' leader, said in a […]

20 December 2017

International News

Saudi-led coalition air raids ‘kill 10 women’ in Yemen

At least eight women and two girls heading home from a wedding have been killed in an air attack in central-west Yemen, a health official has told Al Jazeera. Saba news agency, aligned with Yemen's Houthi group, cited a security source as saying that the women's vehicle was struck by three Saudi-led coalition air raids late on Saturday. The attack reportedly took place at around 11pm local time (20:00 GMT) […]

18 December 2017

International News

Saudi coalition bombs Houthi defence ministry in Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition bombed the Houthi rebel-controlled Defence Ministry in Yemen's capital Sanaa, local media reported. Two air strikes targeted the ministry late on Friday and plumes of smoke could be seen billowing from the building, the rebel media network Al Masirah quoted witnesses as saying. One of the missiles hit a residential area near the ministry, wounding at least eight civilians, it said. The casualty toll could rise as […]

11 November 2017

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