Regional mediation yesterday ended the Ansar Allah (Houthi) seizure of three commercial planes in Sanaa International Airport, marking an end to a fresh dispute that started ten days ago when the Houthi authorities prevented three commercial planes from taking off from the airp...
The United States of America and the Sultanate of Oman held discussions on the latest developments in the situation in Yemen in light of the continued attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The U.S. State Department stated - in a statement - that the U.S. env...
The Red Sea battle between the U.S. forces and Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) group has presented a critical opportunity for Russia to pose a new threat to its Western opponents. Since November last year, the U.S. has been engaged in challenging combat against the Ho...
It has been four days since the Yemeni government and the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group began a new round of talks on prisoner swap in Oman. Today, the two sides have declared one of the agreements they have reached. The Houthis have agreed to reveal the fate of Mohammed Qahtan, a ...
An abandoned tanker that was drifting off Yemen's coast in June has disappeared and is believed to have sunk, three navy and security sources said, the latest vessel lost in the strategically important Red Sea. The area, on the main shipping route from Europe to Asia, is considered h...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) war of words on Saudi Arabia has intensified over the past few days. This has come after the Houthi group seized four planes owned by Yemenia Airways, leaving over 1300 Yemeni pilgrims stranded in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. A meeting by the Houthi Supreme Politi...
The Masam demining project removed 755 mines in various regions of Yemen, including 47 anti-tank mines, 707 unexploded ordnance, and one explosive device during the fourth week of June 2024, according to a statement by the Masam project. The demining team removed one anti-tank mine and 1...
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Sunday it had received a report of an incident 13 nautical miles southwest of Yemen's Mocha, but that the vessel and its crew were safe. An UKMTO advisory note said a merchant vessel had reported being approached by 12 smal...
Now and then, the Eritrean authorities detain dozens of Yemeni fishermen and release them after weeks or days of detention. The latest release of a group of fishermen happened on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Twenty-three Yemeni fishermen arrived in Al-Hudaydah after spending several days in ...
Yemen's economy continues to face significant hurdles as ongoing conflict and regional tensions exacerbate the nation's economic and humanitarian crises, according to the latest World Bank Yemen Economic Monitor. The report said Yemen's GDP is projected to contract by 1.0% in...
Two Arab diplomatic sources revealed that the United Arab Emirates suggested to the United States to use the breakaway Somaliland region to confront the Ansar Allah (Houthi) campaign in the Red Sea in lieu of the American aircraft carriers which require huge budgets and a considera...
The parties to the conflict in Yemen arrived in Muscat yesterday to initiate a new round of negotiation on a prisoner swap amid rising tensions on several battlefronts in several Yemeni provinces. The delegations of the UN-recognized government and the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group decl...
Four commercial planes have been in Sanaa International Airport since last week as they cannot take off without the approval of authorities in Sanaa. The planes are owned by Yemenia Airways, which says the Ansar Allah (Houthi) group seized them in violation of all rules. With the sei...
The Ansar Allah (Houthi) group has launched what it called a hypersonic missile on a ship in the Arabian Sea for the first time. This announcement came two months and a half after the Houthi authorities declared a successful test of firing such a kind of missile. The Houthi armed for...
Today, Wednesday, the Yemeni and Egyptian foreign ministers began a round of strategic dialogue in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman and Director of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the dialogue began...
Armed confrontations broke out between government forces and the Houthi group in a number of locations in Taiz province, local sources said on Thursday. The sources said that battles erupted on the Ausaifra frontline, north of the city of Taiz, after Houthi fighters attacked the position...
A plan is being pursued by the Southern Transitional Council (STC) and the Abu Dhabi Ports Group to run the Port of Aden jointly. The head of the STC, Aidrous Al-Zubaidi, issued a letter dated June 12, 2024, to Yemen's prime minister, stating that a committee is discussing ...
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Sunday that the captain and crew of a vessel 96 nautical miles southeast of Yemen's Nishtun were forced to abandon ship after it suffered flooding that could not be contained. The crew has been recovered by an assisti...
A recent report has claimed that a number of individuals working in international organizations have used their positions to promote the Ansar Allah (Houthi) agenda. This has prompted U.S. officials to form a committee to investigate the information provided by such a report, a dip...
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is sailing out of the waters of the Middle East, after eight months of skirmishes and fights with Houthi militants over the waters around Yemen. The aircraft carrier and the three ships that make its carrier strike group are now set to head into the European ...
