Shipping giant Maersk said on Sunday it was suspending the passage of vessels through a key Red Sea strait for 48 hours, after Yemeni rebels attacked one of its merchant ships.The Maersk Hangzhou, a Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned and operated conta...

In October 2019, Mariam, a ten-year-old girl from Taiz, Yemen, went out with her sister to collect some firewood for her mother. While she was searching, she stepped on a landmine and the blast sent her into the air. She was immediately transferred t...

Scores of prisoners of war, including Saudis, were freed on Saturday as part of a cross-border exchange between a Saudi-led military coalition and Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels, the International Committee of the Red Cross said.The flights connect...

A major exchange of prisoners from Yemen's brutal civil war got underway on Friday with the first plane departing rebel-held Sanaa for government-controlled Aden, the International Committee of the Red Cross said."The first flight from Sanaa has left...

In a goodwill gesture to end the eight-year-old war in Yemen between the Iranian-backed Houthi group and the Saudi-backed transitional government, a new deal for a truce and ceasefire is close to being reached.Saudi Arabia has dispatched a peace dele...

By AFPThe UN envoy for Yemen said Monday he was encouraged by what he called an intensification of diplomatic efforts to arrange a new truce in the eight-year war there, saying there was "a possibility that should not be wasted."But special envoy Han...

By AFPTwo months after Yemen's truce expired, fighting largely remains on hold but a series of attacks by Huthi rebels could have serious repercussions for a country crippled by war.At least three drone strikes at ports on Yemen's southern coast have...

By AFPThe US navy said Tuesday it had scuttled a boat transporting "explosive materials" from Iran to supply Huthi rebels in Yemen, with enough power to fuel a dozen ballistic rockets.The boat, which the US navy seized on November 8 in the Gulf of Om...

By AFPContaminated medication smuggled into war-torn Yemen has killed at least 10 children being treated for leukaemia in the rebel-held capital Sanaa, local authorities said Friday."Ten children suffering from leukaemia have died" at the Kuwait Hosp...

After the six-month truce in Yemen expired last Sunday, the fear of a return of violence is spreading among the people in the war-torn country.Yemen's warring parties failed to renewthe UN-brokered truce deal, dashing the hopes of someYemenisfor a br...

By AFPThe United Nations said Wednesday it has raised the $75 million necessary to salvage a stricken tanker off Yemen, an emergency operation aimed at averting a disastrous Red Sea oil spill -- and a potential $20 billion cleanup.The decaying 45-yea...

By AFPThe United Nations envoy to Yemen on Wednesday deplored an attack by the Huthi rebels against government positions that killed 10 three days earlier near Taez in the country's southeast."I condemn the attack... on Sunday night... that left a nu...