In Yemen’s southern port city of Aden, Nawfal al-Mojamal struggles to keep Soviet-era machinery running at the main power plant as electricity outages fray the nerves of residents already fed up with …
Can Yemen once more be a united nation?
Unity Day, a public holiday commemorating the unification of North Yemen and South Yemen 31 years ago, fell on Saturday, amid a bitter civil war that began six and a half years ago. Asked about the …
U.S. and UK envoys urge peace in Yemen after blast kills at least 17
U.S. and British diplomats urged Houthi forces to end an offensive in northern Yemen on Sunday after at least 17 people were killed in an explosion which the Saudi-backed government blamed on a Houthi …
Saudi-led coalition says intercepts Houthi drone launched at Khamis Mushait
The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen’s Houthi movement said it intercepted an armed drone launched on Sunday towards the southern Saudi Arabian city of Khamis Mushait, which the group said was fired …
US envoy says Yemeni rebels not trying to reach cease-fire
The U.S. special envoy for Yemen has accused the Houthi rebels of not trying to reach an urgently needed cease-fire in the war-wrecked nation …
U.S. says Yemen’s Houthis bear “major responsibility” in conflict
The United States on Friday blamed Iran-aligned Houthis for the failure of a ceasefire to take hold in Yemen on Friday and accused them of not taking other steps toward ending the brutal conflict.
UN urges Yemen’s Houthis to allow examination of oil tanker
The U.N. Security Council called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels to quickly allow U.N. experts to examine an oil tanker moored off the war-torn country’s coast loaded with more than 1 million barrels of …
Washington Has Yemen Policy Backward
Argument: Washington Has Yemen Policy Backward… In a recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria discussing the war in Yemen, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken asserted that “the Saudis have …
IMF Staff Concludes Visit on Yemen
End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The views expressed …
Yemen Had the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis. Then Covid Came
Covid-19 is low in the pecking order of catastrophe for Yemen, the poorest Arab state and a strategic conduit for global trade, where almost seven years of war had produced the world’s worst …