The Latest Breaking News from Yemen

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,…

Yemen’s al-Mahra province received on Saturday the second batch of the new Saudi oil derivatives grant. The Kingdom had announced that it would be providing the war-torn country with USD 200 million in oil grants through the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY). The first batch totaled 70,000…

Saudi Arabia will provide aid for more than 500,000 needy Yemenis in a new humanitarian support initiative through the World Food Program (WFP). The Saudi aid coincides with demands by humanitarian organizations in Yemen's Marib for urgent assistance to thousands of displaced families in the governorate to face the cold…

Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmad bin Awad bin Mubarak described on Thursday the Iran-backed Houthi militias’ ongoing rejection of peace calls as an “insult to the international community.” Bin Mubarak met with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara. He called for an end to what he described as a policy…

Chairman of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi reiterated on Tuesday his country’s demands for the international community to designate the Iran-backed Houthi militias as terrorist. Al-Alimi received in Riyadh a delegation of the European Parliament headed by the Chair of the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, David McAllister.