The Latest Breaking News from Yemen

Saudi Arabia deposited $1 billion into the central bank of Yemen’s legitimate government Tuesday in a bid to bolster the country’s economy, state media said. The move was in implementation of directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince…

One of the oddest explosives discovered by the Saudi Masam Project in Yemen was a bean can that the Iran-backed Houthi militias had booby-trapped to form a landmine. Ousama al-Gosaibi, the program manager for the Masam Project, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the Houthis had designed the explosive in a way…

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A rights group has announced that more than 100 civilians were killed and wounded by landmines in the past six weeks, amid government warnings of the escalating threat of Houthi landmines on civilians. International and Yemeni reports revealed that the Houthi militias have planted more than one million landmines, including…

Yemen has been suffering for eight years due to the war sparked by the Houthi militia, displacing over four million people internally.

The head of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad al-Alimi, intensified his meetings with European officials to mobilize European efforts to pressure the Houthi militia and support economic reforms. Alimi, who is visiting Brussels, is heading back to Munich to participate in the Munich Security Conference.

The Yemeni government denied any change in inspection procedures on ships bound for the Houthi-controlled western Hodeidah port, stressing that the UN Verification and Inspection Mechanism for Yemen was still operational. Houthis claimed that the inspection mechanism had been suspended. The government emphasized that it will take deterrent actions against…

The ambassadors of the US, UK, and France have condemned Houthi attacks against infrastructure in Yemen and the group’s actions that threaten the peace process and damage the Yemeni economy. The three ambassadors called on the Houthis to stop further attacks on civilian infrastructure.

Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak stressed that any peace plan in the country should focus on ending the Houthi coup, based on the three agreed-upon references. At the meeting of the EU's Political and Security Committee, bin Mubarak said the peace plan in Yemen should focus on resolving…

The UN Security Council extended the sanctions imposed on Yemen until Nov. 15, including the arms embargo on several Houthi leaders, classified as a terrorist entity under UN Resolution 2624. The Council also extended the mandate of the panel of experts tasked with managing the sanctions until Dec. 15. The…

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