The Latest Breaking News from Yemen

The FSO Safer, which contains more than a million barrels of oil, was abandoned in 2015 during the Yemen civil war and is now starting to fall apart

The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen say they are imposing severe restrictions on U.N. and other humanitarian flights arriving in the capital, Sanaa

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

Female aid workers in north Yemen cannot do their jobs tackling one of the world's worst humanitarian crises as tightening male guardianship rules by Houthi authorities restrict their movement, nine female humanitarians told Reuters.

Yemeni intellectuals and activists urged interventions to stop the Houthi militia's plan to demolish 500 archaeological buildings in the Old City of Sanaa, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. They warned that the planned demolition includes four crucial markets intending to establish a sectarian shrine in the city. Yemeni…

The US lauded the Yemeni government's efforts to support peace and economic reforms, said the US ambassador to Yemen Steven Fagin. Fagin visited Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik and other officials in Aden, during which they discussed the latest developments. Fagin said the United States was encouraged by the significant reduction…

Soldiers killed as clashes erupt after new attack by the Houthis in Marib province, reports say.

Yemen, declared by the UN as "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world", is on the brink of economic collapse according to Oxfam...

A flare-up of fighting in Yemen's energy-rich Marib province is testing 10 months of relative calm, the longest stretch in an eight-year civil war, under a U.N.-brokered truce deal that lapsed in October but had largely held.

The two sides in Yemen's conflict have agreed to free nearly 900 people in a prisoner exchange. That deal comes less than two weeks after Saudi Arabia and Iran re-established diplomatic ties after years of hostility. The two regional powers have backed opposing sides in Yemen's war, and their rapprochement…

The international community welcomed the latest prisoner exchange agreement reached between the legitimate Yemeni government and Iran-backed Houthi militias. The parties agreed to free 887 detainees and to meet again in May after 10 days of negotiations in Switzerland, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross…