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UN envoy with new plan to salvage Yemen peace deal

UN envoy with new plan to salvage Yemen peace deal

The UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths arrived in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday for crisis talks with Shia Houthi rebel group. Griffiths…

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Explosion in Yemen Kills at Least 13 in Warehouse

Explosion in Yemen Kills at Least 13 in Warehouse

A large explosion at a warehouse in Sana, Yemen’s rebel-held capital, killed at least 13 people on Sunday, including seven children, and wounded mo…

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Yemeni forces retake mountain in Dhalea province

Yemeni forces retake mountain in Dhalea province

Pro-government forces seized two positions from Houthi rebels in Yemen's Dhalea province after heavy fighting on Saturday night. Control…

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Yemen: MSF suspends hospital admissions in Aden after patient is kidnapped and killed

Yemen: MSF suspends hospital admissions in Aden after patient is kidnapped and killed

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended all patient admissions to the organization's emergency trauma hospital in Aden…

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Saudi says 5 wounded as Yemen rebel drones intercepted

Saudi says 5 wounded as Yemen rebel drones intercepted

Saudi air defences intercepted two drones launched by Iran-backed Al Houthi militants from neighbouring Yemen but debris wounded five civilians, in…

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Attack kills 3 women in Yemen's Hodeidah

Attack kills 3 women in Yemen's Hodeidah

 At least three women were killed Wednesday when a projectile landed on a residential area in the Red Sea coast city of Hodeidah, local reside…

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Yemen's Houthis deny U.N. access to Hodeidah mills for 'safety reasons'

Yemen's Houthis deny U.N. access to Hodeidah mills for 'safety reasons'

Houthi forces denied the United Nations access to a grain storage site in the Yemeni port of Hodeidah on Tuesday, sources familiar with the matter…

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UN Envoy to Yemen in Muscat, Pressures Houthis to Accept Redeployment Plan

UN Envoy to Yemen in Muscat, Pressures Houthis to Accept Redeployment Plan

UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths continued on Monday to exert pressure on the Iran-backed Houthi militias to accept the plan of head of the Redep…

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2 soldiers killed in attack on military police headquarters in Yemen's Taiz

2 soldiers killed in attack on military police headquarters in Yemen's Taiz

At least two Yemeni soldiers were killed on Tuesday in an armed attack on a military police headquarters in the southwestern province of Taiz, a go…

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Four soldiers killed in ambush in eastern Yemen

Four soldiers killed in ambush in eastern Yemen

Four Yemeni soldiers were killed Tuesday in an ambush in Yemen's Hadhramaut province, according to a local military source. An improvised…

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Intensified airstrikes hit Houthi-held sites in southern Yemen

Intensified airstrikes hit Houthi-held sites in southern Yemen

Warplanes of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition launched intensified airstrikes against Houthi-held sites in Yemen's southern province of al-Dhalea on…

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US carries out first airstrikes in Yemen in nearly 3 months

US carries out first airstrikes in Yemen in nearly 3 months

The US military carried out a series of six airstrikes in Yemen last week targeting the local al Qaeda affiliate there. They were the fir…

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Saudi-Led coalition launches raids on Yemen's Houthis in Sanaa

Saudi-Led coalition launches raids on Yemen's Houthis in Sanaa

The Saudi-Led coalition in Yemen launched raids on Houthi camps in the capital Sanaa, including the Al-Dailami air base, Al-Arabiya TV reported on…

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Clashes among government-aligned forces in Yemen's kill 6

Clashes among government-aligned forces in Yemen's kill 6

Yemeni officials say heavy street battles among armed Islamist factions aligned with the exiled government have left at least six people dead and f…

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Yemen: car bomb explosion kills 2 in Shabwa

Yemen: car bomb explosion kills 2 in Shabwa

On Thursday, as many as two persons were murdered when a booby-trapped vehicle blasted close to a military checkpoint in Yemen's southeastern provi…

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Pompeo critiques Senate vote to end U.S. support for Yemen's Saudi-led war

Pompeo critiques Senate vote to end U.S. support for Yemen's Saudi-led war

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed back against the Senate's recent vote to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen at a press con…

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Yemen condemns deadly New Zealand mosque attacks

Yemen condemns deadly New Zealand mosque attacks

Yemen's Internationally-backed government condemned the terrorist attacks on two mosques in New Zealand on Friday, leaving dozens dead and injured.…

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Security Council members urge Yemen parties to implement peace deal

Security Council members urge Yemen parties to implement peace deal

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council urged Yemen’s warring parties on Tuesday to implement a peace deal in the port city of Hode…

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Senate to Vote Again to End Aid to Saudi War in Yemen

Senate to Vote Again to End Aid to Saudi War in Yemen

 The Senate will vote Wednesday on whether to cut off American military assistance for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, preparing again to rebuke…

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Clashes Break Out in Yemen's Key Port City After Cease-fire

Clashes Break Out in Yemen's Key Port City After Cease-fire

Yemeni security officials and eyewitnesses say that fighting has erupted in the key port city of Hodeida, the first significant clashes since warri…

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