The Latest Breaking News from Yemen

The U.S. Navy has seized over 2,100 assault rifles from a ship in the Gulf of Oman it believes came from Iran and were bound for Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels

After condemning the Houthi militia’s escalation in Yemen’s southwestern Taiz Governorate and its targeting of two children with sniper fire, the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) reiterated its call for unified and firm international positions to stop the terrorism of the Iran-backed group. PLC member Sultan al-Arada conveyed the Yemeni ruling…

Four convoys loaded with relief aid crossed the Saudi-Yemeni border crossing of al-Wadia on Saturday to the war-torn country. The aid, provided by the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), consists of 36.4 tons of medical supplies for dialysis centers across Yemeni regions. The latest aid shipment is…

Houthi militias celebrated the third anniversary of the assassination of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander of the al-Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, sparking angry reactions among Yemenis. Social media activists and journalists saw the celebration as a confirmation of the group's absolute affiliation with the Iranian regime. The Houthi…

The US and United Nations envoys to Yemen kicked off on Thursday a visit to Riyadh to revive the stalled peace efforts in the war-torn country. US envoy Tim Lenderking and UN envoy Hans Grundberg held separate meetings with Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council Dr.

The internationally recognized Yemeni government has launched 2023 by taking measures to protect the economy and stabilize the local currency, according to official sources. Government measures included an emphasis on rationalizing spending and sticking to inevitable expenses. Moreover, the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) underlined the need for strengthening unity, discussing…

A six month truce set the tone for 2022, with Yemen’s warring parties largely avoiding direct conflict.

A majority of Yemen's internally displaced wish to return to their areas of origin, contrary to previous data from last year's beginning, according to recent data by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). According to data in the second half of 2022, 41…

The National Commission to Investigate Alleged Violations to Human Rights (NCIAVHR) said Thursday it has documented and investigated 3,411 human rights violations across Yemen in 2022. The violations include attacks on civilians, archaeological and religious sites, medical personnel and health facilities the destruction of private and public property, recruitment of…

It is not possible to explain the events of the year 2022 in Yemen without returning to a “golden day”, after which the defense equation led by the Arab Coalition and the Yemeni Armed Forces changed. The day was November 21, 2021. It was after that day that Houthi military…

About 70 percent of Yemen's food imports entered through Hodeidah ports that are under the control of the Iran-backed Houthi militias, which claim that these ports are besieged. Several international reports showed that imports through ports under the legitimate government's control dropped 53 percent from the same period last year,…