Conflict

‘These are very dark times for Yemen’: senior UN official on air strike mass casualties

New York, Sept 3 (JEN): Lise Grande, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Yemen, described Sunday’s deadly airstrikes in Dhamar City as a “horrific incident”, and the scale of the casualties, as “staggering”. “These are very dark times for Yemen,” said Ms. Grande. "There have been days of fighting and strikes in the south and hundreds of casualties”. more

Yemeni children ‘dying right now’ due to food aid diversions Beasley warns Security Council

New York, June 18 (JEN): Food continues to be taken “from the mouths of hungry little boys and little girls” in many areas of Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels, warned the hea ...

Motorbike-riding gunman kills 2 Yemeni soldiers in Taiz

Aden, Yemen (Xinhua/UNI) Two Yemeni soldiers were shot dead by an unidentified gunman in the country's southwestern province of Taiz on Tuesday, a security official told Xinhua.

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

Aden, Yemen (Xinhua/UNI) 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 government offici ...

UAE-backed Yemeni security forces arrest al-Qaida explosives expert

Aden, Yemen (Xinhua/UNI) Yemeni security forces launched an anti-terror raid and arrested an explosives expert of the Yemen-based al-Qaida branch in the southern province of Abyan, a secu ...

Humanitarian crisis in Yemen remains the worst in the world, warns UN

New York: An estimated 24 million people – close to 80 per cent of the population – need assistance and protection in Yemen, the UN warned on Thursday. With famine threatening ...

UN-led Yemen ceasefire monitoring team gets ready to begin operations

New York, Dec 20: A UN-led team tasked with overseeing the ceasefire which came into effect on Tuesday around a number of critical Yemeni ports, has begun planning operations ...

Progress made in UN talks to end Yemen war, Envoy lauds ‘positive and serious spirit’

United Nations-sponsored political consultations in Sweden, involving the warring parties in the Yemen war, have led to progress “on a number of issues,” said Martin Griffiths ...

Yemen war: UN chief urges good faith as ‘milestone’ talks get underway in Sweden

New York,: The Yemeni Government and the Houthi opposition have gathered at United Nations-sponsored political talks, close to the Swedish capital, Stockholm, aimed at ending nearly four ...

Yemen war: UN-backed talks to silence the guns begin in Sweden

New York: Highly anticipated UN-brokered consultations about substantive talks which could lead to an end to more than three years of brutal conflict across Yemen, have begun in Sweden. B ...