Iran and the de-facto government of Yemen, the Houthi-led National Salvation Government (NSG), have held their first joint economic cooperation commission. The Iranian state media outlets said the meeting was held at Iran's Employment and Administrative Organisation and was attended by the body...
The U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen, Tim Lenderking, began his visit to the Gulf on Monday as part of the U.S. role in advancing the ongoing UN-led peace efforts in Yemen. According to the U.S. State Department, Lenderking will meet with Yemeni, Saudi, Emirati, Omani, and international partne...
The Southern Transitional Council (STC) Saturday seized an Al-Qaeda camp in Abyan as part of its campaign to eliminate the presence of Al-Qaeda operatives in remote territories. The seizure follows the Al-Qaeda-plotted assassination of a senior military commander last week. According to the sources,...
A landmine observatory in Yemen has said demining teams dismantled about 50 camouflaged explosive devices and mines in a water well in Hais district of Hodeida to the west of Yemen. The Observatory accused the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group of planting explosives and mines. According to UN reports...
Roughly 30% of teachers and educators in Houthi-controlled areas have abandoned their teaching roles in North Yemen, Abu Zaid, Al-Kumaim, the head of the Preparatory Committee of the Teachers' Club, said. Numerous teachers have experienced tough economic challenges as their salaries have been unpaid...
A UN worker kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in Yemen was released after a year and a half in captivity, local media reported Thursday. Akam Sofyol Anam, a Bangladeshi national, was the UN Department of Security and Safety field coordination officer in Aden. Al-Qaeda militants abducted him in February las...
The Yemeni government said, on Tuesday, that it will sign a framework agreement within the next two days to reduce the cost of marine insurance for ships coming to ports under its control. This move comes in light of the decline in the performance of the government-controlled ports after lifting res...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group has warned U.S. forces against approaching Yemen's shores and territorial waters. The warning came hours after the U.S. Fifth Fleet said in a statement that more than 3,000 US military personnel had arrived in the Red Sea on board two warships to boost...
Local sources said that armed clashes broke out on Sunday evening between the Rescue Forces affiliated with Shabwa Governor Awad bin Alwazir and the UAE-backed Giants Brigades Forces in the city of Attaq, the capital of Shabwa province. The confrontations happened after the Rescue Forces detained so...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group on Sunday announced the death of the Air and Defense Forces commander, Ahmed Ali Hassan Al-Hamzi, in the capital, Sana'a. The Houthi-run Saba Agency quoted an obituary by the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff Presidency, saying that Al-Hamzi died after illness....
The security forces in Yemen's Taiz province have tightened security measures to safeguard the offices of international and relief organizations and their staff. They have confiscated some weapons and explosives and made numerous arrests related to the assassination of Moayad Hamidi, the coordinator...
Yemen has lost one and a half billion dollars since last August because of the Houthi attacks on economic facilities and oil ports in the country, said Marwan Ali Noman, the Acting Permanent Representative of Yemen to the United Nations. In a high-level Security Council session on famine ...
On Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at least five Yemeni soldiers were killed in clashes with Al-Qaeda militants in Abyan province. The militants attacked the Southern Transitional Council (STC) soldiers in Wadi Omran in Abyan. The militants failed to seize the area and were forced to retreat. AQAP has be...
