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 AFPUS Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday urged a fresh extension of a fragile truce in Yemen, saying it had improved lives in the war-ravaged nation.Meeting ahead of the UN General Assembly with Rashad al-Alimi, head of Yemen's presidenti...

By AFPA truce has brought respite to Yemen after seven years of devastating war, but the blockage of roads remains a "major" humanitarian concern, a UN official has warned.Yemen's conflict pitting the Saudi-backed government against Iran-backed Huthi...

The UN's World Food Programme has announced further reductions of food aid to war-torn Yemen as a result of funding gaps, price rises and the fallout from the Ukraine war."Critical funding gaps, global inflation and the knock-on effects of the war in...

The number of children forced out of school or who have seen their education disrupted in conflict- and crisis-torn countries has nearly tripled in six years to 222 million, the UN said Tuesday.That is up from 75 million children estimated to be in t...

Saudi Arabia on Sunday pledged $10 million to help prevent an ageing Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea bordering its waters.The decaying 45-year-old oil tanker known as the FSO Safer, long used as a flo...

US President Joe Biden praised the announcement of the extension of the UN-brokered truce in Yemen for additional two months on Thursday, praising the regional diplomatic efforts by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, and Oman to achieve the truce.“This tru...