The Latest Breaking News from Yemen

‘Catastrophic hunger’: Charity urges truce extension in Yemen

Two-month truce is set to expire on Wednesday, prompting calls for an end to ‘the cycle of violence and suffering’.

Al Jazeera · May 31, 2022

U.S. and Saudi ministers discuss efforts to prolong Yemen truce

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud have held a call to discuss Saudi Arabia's efforts to prolong a truce in Yemen, the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia tweeted on Tuesday.

Reuters · May 31, 2022

Yemen Presidential Council Forms Security, Military Committee

The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council announced on Monday the formation of a joint security and military committee. Veteran military official Haitham Qassem Taher was named as head of the 59-member committee. The formation of the body is part of the Council's efforts to consolidate its authority and efforts to unify…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 31, 2022

World Bank Report Sheds Light on Sufferings of Yemeni Women

Katebah Sayyad, a 60-year-old woman in Quhal, describes fetching water as “an exhausting task for people, especially women.” In the Yemeni village of Quhal, in Amran governorate in northern Yemen, the main source of water used to be the old rainwater ponds that filled during the summer. This water fed…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 28, 2022

US, Netherlands call for action on decaying Yemeni supertanker

The two countries warn of potential economic, environmental and humanitarian effects if FSO Safer spills or explodes.

Al Jazeera · May 27, 2022

Yemen Calls for Protecting Refugees from Houthi Attacks

Yemeni Permanent Representative to the UN, Abdullah Ali Fadhel Al-Saadi urged the international community and the Security Council to take measures to protect civilians in both cities and refugee camps from terrorist attacks by Iran-backed Houth militias and to protect civilian objects in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 27, 2022

US calls on Yemen’s Houthis to release its local embassy staff

US calls on Yemeni rebels to ‘end injustice’ and free current and former employees of the US embassy in Sanaa.

Al Jazeera · May 26, 2022

Blast in Yemen fish market kills at least 4 people, wounds over 30

At least four people were killed and more than 30 injured at a Yemen fish market when an explosive device planted in a trash can detonated, police in the port city of Aden said on Thursday.

Reuters · May 26, 2022

UN envoy urges Yemen’s warring parties to renew truce

Two-month nationwide truce between Saudi-led coalition and the rebel Houthi group is due to expire at beginning of June.

Al Jazeera · May 26, 2022

UN aims to transfer 6,750 Ethiopians trapped in Yemen war

The U.N. migration agency says it's aiming to transfer at least 6,750 Ethiopian migrants from war-torn Yemen to their home country in the coming months

The Independent UK · May 24, 2022