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...

More than 150 civil society organizations called on the Human Rights Council to support the National Committee to Investigate Allegations of Human Rights Violations in Yemen by listening to all victims, with the aim of achieving justice and fairness....

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...

By AFPThree alleged Al-Qaeda militants were killed in a suspected US drone strike in northeastern Yemen on Monday, local government officials said.The attack was carried out on a car in Marib province, the scene of heavy fighting in 2021 in Yemen's l...

By AFPThe United Nations on Wednesday inscribed an ancient city and its dam in war-torn Yemen and a futurist park in cash-strapped Lebanon on its world heritage list.The UN cultural agency listed both as world heritage sites in danger, the first beca...

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 AFPYemeni student Abir al-Maqtari dreamt of studying abroad but amid a tightening of restrictions on women echoing religious regimes in Iran and Afghanistan, Huthi forces blocked her from leaving.The Iran-backed Huthis, who have controlled swathes...

By AFPMore than 11,000 children are known to have been killed or maimed in Yemen's civil war since it escalated nearly eight years ago, the United Nations said Monday."The true toll of this conflict is likely to be far higher," said the children's ag...

Lists of names for Yemeni students who were awarded fully-funded governmental scholarships abroad over the past five years were leaked from the Ministry of Higher Education, sparking the anger of Yemenis as they included dozens of “ineligible student...

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...