The Latest Breaking News from Sanaa

Farmers are draining groundwater around Yemen's capital and removing soil to cultivate the narcotic green leaf qat that dominates life in the country, threatening to exhaust precious resources in the climate-vulnerable nation.

Houthi leaders in Sanaa established a new security formation named "community committees" to monitor the population and repress personal freedoms. According to militia media sources, the group's leaders in Sanaa held several meetings with residential and neighborhood supervisors and officials in ten districts. They formed the so-called "community committees," which…

Once again, Houthi militias in Yemen are targeting the private trade sector in three different governorates as the Iran-backed group continues with its efforts to impose control over businesses operating in areas under its rule. Around 3,000 Houthi militiamen have been deployed over the years to take over businesses and…

Houthi militias are banning women from traveling inside and outside Yemen without a mahram, or a male companion, accompanying them. Karima, a woman in her seventies, was stopped at a Houthi militia checkpoint in Sanaa and prevented from traveling because she did not have a mahram. Her son Fahmy told…

Houthi militias in Yemen announced a few days ago that dozens of bodies were buried in mass graves in Sanaa.

Markets in the Houthi-controlled governorates and the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, are flooded with expired food items. Regulatory bodies constantly announce the confiscation and destruction of large quantities of expired products from Yemeni stores and markets, and of referring those responsible to justice. However, Houthis have recently started confiscating the expired…

A Houthi-run hospital in Sanaa is keeping the dead bodies of 22 newborns whose families could not pay the discharge costs due to deteriorating living conditions. In a precedent, the hospital published an ad in a Houthi-run newspaper calling on the bereaved families to come forth to pay their dues…

Houthi militias have escalated their attacks against the tribesmen and their leaders near Sanaa and Amran governorates to seize their lands and real estate and undermine opponents. Local sources in Sanaa told Asharq Al-Awsat that only a few weeks after the militias’ raids, killings, sieges, assaults, and kidnappings in Saraf…

The U.N. has returned 129 Ethiopian migrants stranded in war-torn Yemen to their homeland in its first humanitarian repatriation flight to depart from the rebel-held capital of Sanaa this year

The Iranian-backed Houthi militias reopened an Iranian hospital in Sanaa, 13 years after closing it and using it as a center for spying and promoting extremism. The militias changed the hospital's name and allocated more than 3.5 billion riyals to equip it. The move is considered one of the group's…

The truce lasted for six months and expired on October 2, with efforts to renew it unsuccessful so far.