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2/20/2026

Yemeni security forces have killed at least one person and wounded 11 as a crowd linked to the secessionist Southern Transitional Council (STC) attempted to storm the gate of the al-Maashiq Presidential Palace in Aden, a...

2/11/2026

A crowd linked to Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) has attempted to storm a local government building in the southeastern Yemeni city of Ataq, leaving several dead, according to local authorities an...

2/4/2026

Vital aid flights to the Houthi-controlled capital of Yemen, blocked for a month by the Iran-aligned group, will resume this month, allowing critical supplies to reach millions in need amid a worsening humanitarian crisi...

1/29/2026

The United Nations food agency is shutting down its operations in the northern, rebel-held part of Yemen, following restrictions imposed by the Houthi rebels and harassment from the Iranian-backed group, U.N. officials s...

1/21/2026

Three people were killed on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded in an attack that appeared to target a leader of a Saudi-backed armed group in southern Yemen, according to witnesses and security officials.

1/16/2026

Yemen’s Saudi-backed ‍presidential leadership ‍council has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Salem bin Breik and appointed Foreign Minister Shaya Mohsin al-Zindani as the ⁠country’s new prime minister, the state...

1/13/2026

Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council Chairman Rashad al-Alimi ordered on Monday the closure of all illegal prisons and detention centers in the southern governorates of Aden, Lahj, and Dhale, and instructed the immedia...

1/9/2026

Saudi Arabia’s defense minister said the southern cause in Yemen now has a “genuine path” forward, backed by the Kingdom and supported by the international community through the upcoming Riyadh Conference, following the...

1/6/2026

More than 400 foreign tourists are stranded on the Yemeni island of Socotra after flights were suspended amid escalating political and military tensions, local officials said on Monday.

1/4/2026

Yemen’s internationally recognized government announced on Sunday that it had regained control of the governorate of Hadramout.

1/2/2026

Flights from Aden international airport in Yemen were halted on Thursday amid continuing tensions between the Southern Transitional Council (STC) separatist group and the Saudi Arabia-backed internationally recognised go...

12/30/2025

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen’s port city of Mukalla on Tuesday after a weapons shipment from the United Arab Emirates arrived for separatist forces in the war-torn country, and warned that it viewed Emirati actions as “extr...

12/8/2025

The airspace of war-torn Yemen was briefly closed Monday, an official said, as tensions escalated in the country’s south after a separatist group, backed by the United Arab Emirates, took over of an oil-rich region in a...

11/24/2025

Gunmen fired on a Yemeni provincial leader’s motorcade Monday, killing at least five security officers and wounding two others, authorities said.

10/28/2025

Another United Nations staff member has been detained in Yemen, bringing the number of the world body’s employees apprehended in recent days to six, a UN spokesperson said on Monday.

10/21/2025

Houthi rebels released five Yemeni United Nations staff members and allowed 15 international ones to move freely within the UN compound after detaining them there in Sanaa over the weekend, a UN spokesperson said Monday.

10/20/2025

Iranian-backed Houthi militants detained two dozen UN employees Sunday, a day after they raided another UN facility in the capital Sanaa, a UN official said.

10/16/2025

The Houthis confirmed on Thursday the death of Major General Mohammed AbdulKareem Al-Ghamari, their chief of staff and one of the group’s most prominent military figures, following an Israeli airstrike.

10/7/2025

During the first week of October, Project Masam, Saudi Arabia’s effort to clear mines in Yemen, dismantled 1,319 explosive devices planted by the Houthis and other militant groups.

10/1/2025

Yemen’s Houthis early Wednesday claimed the attack that left a Dutch-flagged cargo ship ablaze and adrift in the Gulf of Aden, underlining the range of their weaponry and their campaign targeting shipping over the Israel...

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