The Latest Breaking News from Yemen

UN’s Yemeni oil tanker operation: What you need to know

An FSO Safer supertanker off Yemen’s coast could break or explode and trigger a catastrophic oil spill, if left as is.

Al Jazeera · Jul 16, 2023

Yemen’s Houthis implement Swedish import ban over Quran burning

Momentum for the ban has been building for months, since a previous Quran-burning incident in January.

Al Jazeera · Jul 9, 2023

The long road to finding true peace in Yemen

In Yemen, rivalries between diverse factions and the competing interests of regional powers will ensure that peace and stability will not be easy to find

The Hindu · Jul 7, 2023

Yemen peace talks must accept country is divided in two, says southern leader

Exclusive: Maj Gen Aidarus al-Zoubaidi says a Houthi-run north and STC-led south is the new reality

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2023

A front-line city in Yemen is desperate for change after nearly a decade of civil war

Nearly a decade of civil war has destroyed millions of Yemeni lives, but perhaps nowhere has it been felt more than in the neighborhoods in Taiz that are closest to the fighting.

WEKU · Jun 21, 2023

Yemen prisoner exchange talks wrap with focus on political figure

The Yemeni government had threatened to abandon the UN-sponsored talks if Qahtan’s case continued to be dismissed.

Al Jazeera · Jun 19, 2023

Yemenis embark on first direct flight to Saudi Arabia since 2016

The flight carried Yemeni Muslims heading to Hajj and signals easing tensions between the two countries.

Al Jazeera · Jun 18, 2023

Antrim company Fast Engineering helps UN prevent environmental disaster in Red Sea

The companies containment units are in position to capture potential oil spills from a super tanker held hostage off the coast of Yemen

Birmingham Post · Jun 16, 2023

UN says insurance coverage secured to salvage rusting oil tanker off Yemen

The United Nations Development Program says it's secured an insurance coverage to start a ship-to-ship transfer of 1.1 million barrels of crude from a rusting tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen — oil that could cause a major environmental disaster

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2023

Quiet reconciliation: Are US-Saudi relations out of the rough?

Are the United States and Saudi Arabia quietly drawing closer? It’s been nearly a year since we were in Jeddah covering that frosty fist bump between Joe Biden and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Critics had been quick to evoke memories of 9/11, the brutal war in Yemen and the…

France 24 · Jun 8, 2023