• Category: Politics
Houthis delay UN inspection of damaged oil tanker off Yemen

Houthis delay UN inspection of damaged oil tanker off Yemen

The United Nations is "deeply concerned" that the Houthi group's delay in granting security guarantees for UN experts tasked with examining an oil tan…

Details
Yemen rebels ‘ready’ for UN mission to repair tanker, deny delay

Yemen rebels ‘ready’ for UN mission to repair tanker, deny delay

Yemen’s Huthi rebels said Wednesday they are “ready” to allow a UN mission to inspect a long-abandoned fuel tanker which threatens to cause a massive…

Details
Int'l team arrives in Yemen's Aden to probe deadly airport bombings

Int'l team arrives in Yemen's Aden to probe deadly airport bombings

An international team arrived on Wednesday in Yemen's southern port city of Aden to investigate the deadly bombings that struck the city's airport at…

Details
Civilians caught in crossfire between Yemeni army, Houthi rebels in Hodeidah: residents

Civilians caught in crossfire between Yemeni army, Houthi rebels in Hodeidah: residents

Fighting erupted between the Yemeni army and the Houthi rebels in the port city of Hodeidah on Wednesday morning, local residents said. Dozens of f…

Details
Worries in United Nations about Yemen’s Houthis may renege on tanker examination

Worries in United Nations about Yemen’s Houthis may renege on tanker examination

The UN warned last year that the tanker, the FSO Safer, hasn’t been maintained for more than five years and could cause an environmental, economic and…

Details
Yemen security authorities foil assassination plots by female Houthi cell

Yemen security authorities foil assassination plots by female Houthi cell

Authorities in Yemen have foiled a plot to kill military and security officers after uncovering a Houthi cell of eight women. The women were planni…

Details
Amid Fears of Major Spill, U.N. Delays Salvage of Yemen Oil Tanker

Amid Fears of Major Spill, U.N. Delays Salvage of Yemen Oil Tanker

The United Nations had planned to start a maritime salvage operation to prevent leaks from a dilapidated tanker holding four times the oil that spille…

Details
Russia's Bogdanov Discusses Yemeni Peace Process With STC Chairman - Ministry

Russia's Bogdanov Discusses Yemeni Peace Process With STC Chairman - Ministry

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and Aidarus al-Zoubaidi, the chairman of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council (STC), on Monday discu…

Details
Yemen's Houthis Claiming Saudi coalition responsible for economic, humanitarian crises

Yemen's Houthis Claiming Saudi coalition responsible for economic, humanitarian crises

Yemen's Houthi group on Sunday said it held the Saudi-led Arab coalition responsible for the country's economic and humanitarian crises, calling for a…

Details
Security Council’s Representatives Invited To Visit Yemen

Security Council’s Representatives Invited To Visit Yemen

Member of the Supreme Political Council (SPC), the highest ruling authority in Sana’a, Mohammad Ali al-Houthi, invited on Saturday the representati…

Details
Houthi-launched missile falls near Al-Harth General Hospital with no losses

Houthi-launched missile falls near Al-Harth General Hospital with no losses

 The spokesman for the Civil Defense Directorate in Jazan Region, Col. Mohammed Bin Yahiya Al-Ghamdi has stated that the directorate received…

Details
Saudi-led coalition destroys explosive-laden drone fired by Yemen's Houthis

Saudi-led coalition destroys explosive-laden drone fired by Yemen's Houthis

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Saturday it had destroyed in Yemeni airspace a drone armed with explosives that was launched by t…

Details
Yemen: STC head to visit Russia

Yemen: STC head to visit Russia

Head of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC) Aidarus Al Zoubaidi is expected today to visit Russia at the start of a tour that will take him to…

Details
Biden Administration's Signs of Policy Shift Divides Yemen's Warring Sides

Biden Administration's Signs of Policy Shift Divides Yemen's Warring Sides

President Joe Biden's foreign policy moves made in the first week of his administration are already causing a stir abroad, including in Yemen, wher…

Details
UN inspection on Yemeni tanker canceled

UN inspection on Yemeni tanker canceled

A United Nations mission to inspect a long-abandoned fuel tanker off the coast of Yemen, which threatens to rupture and cause a massive oil spill,…

Details
Yemen’s Hudaida clashes put thousands of civilians at risk

Yemen’s Hudaida clashes put thousands of civilians at risk

The United Nations has warned that thousands of Yemeni civilians were at risk in the western province of Hudaida after an increase in military clas…

Details
UAE Reiterates Support for Riyadh Agreement, Yemen's Government

UAE Reiterates Support for Riyadh Agreement, Yemen's Government

UAE's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Anwar bin Mohammed Gargash and Dr. Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs and E…

Details
Yemen's central bank dismisses UN corruption allegations

Yemen's central bank dismisses UN corruption allegations

Yemen's central bank dismissed United Nations allegations that the Yemeni government misused millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia to buy essential…

Details
UN still hearing concerns about Yemen trade despite US Houthi approval

UN still hearing concerns about Yemen trade despite US Houthi approval

The United Nations is still hearing concerns that companies are planning to cancel or suspend business with Yemen despite a US decision to allow al…

Details
Biden administration suspends some sanctions on Yemen rebels

Biden administration suspends some sanctions on Yemen rebels

The Biden administration on Monday suspended some of the terrorism sanctions that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposed on Yemen's Houthi r…

Details