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UNSC Calls on Yemeni Parties to Urgently Endorse Joint Declaration Proposals – Statement

UNSC Calls on Yemeni Parties to Urgently Endorse Joint Declaration Proposals – Statement

United Nations: The UN Security Council in a statement on Friday called on Yemen’s warring parties to urgently endorse the UN-facilitated Joint Dec…

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Yemen war foes complete two-day prisoner swap

Yemen war foes complete two-day prisoner swap

Yemen’s warring parties exchanged hundreds more prisoners on Friday on the second and final day of an operation to fly about 1,000 men home and hel…

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Yemen's rival sides complete war's largest prisoner exchange

Yemen's rival sides complete war's largest prisoner exchange

Yemen's warring sides completed a major, U.N.-brokered prisoner swap on Friday, officials said, a development that could revive the country's stall…

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1st LD Writethru: UN envoy expects joint declaration in Yemen within weeks

1st LD Writethru: UN envoy expects joint declaration in Yemen within weeks

UN Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths on Thursday expressed the hope that a comprehensive joint declaration by the Yemeni parties will be sig…

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Yemen’s Hadi Says Riyadh Agreement Would Unite Front against Coup Militias

Yemen’s Hadi Says Riyadh Agreement Would Unite Front against Coup Militias

Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi stressed the need to expedite the process of implementing the Riyadh Agreement, signed between the internati…

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U.S. citizens released by Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen

U.S. citizens released by Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen

"I was living and working in Yemen and was in prison for 899 days, 2 years and 6 months, in solitary confinement and it was hell," said one U.S. ci…

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Yemen’s Warring Sides To Begin Swap Of Over 1,000 Prisoners

Yemen’s Warring Sides To Begin Swap Of Over 1,000 Prisoners

The warring sides in Yemen’s long conflict will exchange some 1,081 prisoners Thursday and Friday, under a deal struck in Switzerland last month, a…

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Yemen's Houthis say 240 injured members return after treatment abroad

Yemen's Houthis say 240 injured members return after treatment abroad

Yemen's Houthi rebels said 240 injured members of the group returned home on Wednesday through two Omani planes after they received treatment abroa…

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U.N. access to decaying Yemen tanker could take weeks, say sources

U.N. access to decaying Yemen tanker could take weeks, say sources

A United Nations team will have to wait several weeks to access a deteriorating tanker off Yemen's shore that is threatening to spill 1.1 million b…

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Pro-gov't forces kill 11 Houthi rebels in SW Yemen: local source

Pro-gov't forces kill 11 Houthi rebels in SW Yemen: local source

At least 11 members of the Houthi rebel group were killed by pro-government Yemeni forces in the country's southwestern province of Taiz on Tuesday…

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Civilian killed, two wounded in Houthi shelling in Yemen’s Taiz

Civilian killed, two wounded in Houthi shelling in Yemen’s Taiz

One Yemeni was killed and two others wounded in shelling carried out by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia on neighborhoods east of Yemen’s Taiz, st…

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Saudi Arabia: Iran’s support for militias in Yemen and Lebanon

Saudi Arabia: Iran’s support for militias in Yemen and Lebanon

The Kingdom affirmed the importance of efforts that achieve the goals of eliminating nuclear weapons, especially in the Middle East region. Indicat…

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Yemen rebels kill two civilians in attack on Hodeidah health centre

Yemen rebels kill two civilians in attack on Hodeidah health centre

Shelling by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed two civilians and injured several others on Sunday in another attack on healthcare centres in Hodeidah, a…

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Fighting Rages in Northern Yemen, Both Sides Claim Heavy Losses Inflicted

Fighting Rages in Northern Yemen, Both Sides Claim Heavy Losses Inflicted

Fighting continues to rage in northern Yemen this weekend, with the government and the Shi’ite Houthis contesting various parts of the Jawf Provinc…

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Renewed fighting targets residential neighborhoods in Yemen's Hodeidah

Renewed fighting targets residential neighborhoods in Yemen's Hodeidah

Renewed fighting between Yemen's government forces and the Houthi fighters struck residential neighborhoods in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeida…

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Fighting in Yemen escalates as government army claims progress

Fighting in Yemen escalates as government army claims progress

Fighting in Yemen has intensified as the government’s army claimed progress on the ground against the Houthi militia, state news agency Saba new re…

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Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed two explosive drones fired by Yemen’s Houthis

Saudi-led coalition says it destroyed two explosive drones fired by Yemen’s Houthis

The Saudi-led coalition said on Saturday it intercepted and destroyed two explosive-laden drones launched towards Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Iran-alig…

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Aframax mine blast off Yemen puts shipping on alert

Aframax mine blast off Yemen puts shipping on alert

Shipping has been put on alert to be highly vigilant when transiting the Gulf of Aden with news of an aframax tanker suffering sizeable damage afte…

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Yemen rebels slam WFP after Nobel Peace Prize win

Yemen rebels slam WFP after Nobel Peace Prize win

Yemen's rebels, previously accused of diverting humanitarian aid in the war-torn country, claimed Friday that the World Food Programme lacked neutr…

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Fighting escalates in Yemen's Hodeidah despite UN call for ceasefire: sources

Fighting escalates in Yemen's Hodeidah despite UN call for ceasefire: sources

Fighting between the pro-government Yemeni forces and the Houthi rebels in Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeidah intensified on Friday. A…

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