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War-struck Yemen is facing a humanitarian crisis, currently intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is affecting the country's disadvantaged populations most. In order to...

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Yemeni women struggle during time of war

March 13, 2021

Huda Al-Bakri lives in Seiyun in eastern Yemen. She is one of the few women who have delved into the world of politics, leading youth,...

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Yemen’s Houthis fire missiles, drones at Saudi oil facilities

March 8, 2021

Yemen's Houthi forces fired drones and missiles at the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry on Sunday, attacking a Saudi Aramco facility at Ras Tanura...

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Yemeni Information Minister: Restore the Houthi terrorist designation

February 15, 2021

Barely hours passed between the US administration’s announcement of its intention to cancel the designation of the Houthi militia as a terrorist organization and the...

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State Dept. revokes terrorist designation on Yemen’s Houthi movement

February 13, 2021

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will remove the designation of the Iranian-backed Yemeni Houthi movement as a foreign terrorist organization and a Specially Designated...

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Blinken, Saudi foreign minister discuss Yemen, defense: State Department

February 11, 2021

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed diplomatic efforts to end the war in Yemen and bolstering Saudi Arabia’s defenses in a call with Saudi...

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Yemen’s Houthis say they carried out drone attack on Saudi airport

February 11, 2021

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it carried out a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport on Wednesday which the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi forces...

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How the Houthis became ‘terrorists’ for three weeks – analysis

February 7, 2021

The US decision to remove the Houthis in Yemen from the list of foreign terrorist organizations reflects yet another roller coaster in US foreign policy....

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Does an end to US support for Yemen war help Iran?

February 5, 2021

Two weeks ago, an article in Newsweek alleged that Iran had positioned “suicide drones” in Yemen. Ostensibly juicy satellite photos showed a triangular shape, or...

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U.S. approves all deals involving Yemen’s Houthis for one month

January 26, 2021

The United States on Monday approved all transactions involving Yemen’s Houthi movement for the next month as Washington reviews a Trump administration designation of the...

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Yemen aid groups call on U.S. to revoke Houthi terrorism designation

January 25, 2021

Twenty-two aid groups working in Yemen called on Sunday for the new U.S. administration to revoke the designation of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement as a...

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U.S. State Department says working to conclude Houthi terrorist designation review

January 23, 2021

The U.S. State Department has initiated a review of the terrorist designation of Yemen’s Houthi movement and is working as fast as it can to...

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The new Biden Administration may change the situation in Yemen

January 22, 2021

Hours before the end of the Trump administration, incoming Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that the US should halt its support to Saudi Arabia’s...

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Yemeni boy, ravaged by hunger, weighs 7 kg

January 5, 2021

Paralysed and severely malnourished, seven-year-old Faid Samim lies curled up on a hospital bed in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, having barely survived the journey there....

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Aden airport re-opens days after deadly Yemen attack

January 4, 2021

The airport of Yemen's second city Aden re-opened Sunday, days after 26 people were killed there in deadly blasts apparently targeting the country's new government....

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Central Bank split heaps on Yemenis’ issues

November 27, 2020

Civil war leads to crash in value of money sent back home that many families depend on to survive A family have breakfast outside their...

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Yemen’s Houthis say they fired missile at Saudi Aramco site

November 23, 2020

The Houthis' military spokesman warned foreign companies and residents in Saudi Arabia to exercise caution as "operations will continue." Saudi Aramco logo is pictured at...

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‘Countdown to catastrophe’ in Yemen as U.N. warns of famine – again

November 11, 2020

Millions of men, women and children in war-torn Yemen are facing famine - again, top United Nations officials warned on Wednesday as they appealed for...

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In Yemen, children begin classes in the ruins of war

October 9, 2020

Yemeni pupils attend class on the first day of the new academic year in the city of Taez, in their ruined school hit in a...

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If wish is power: Yemen court sentences President Trump, Saudi king, and Crown prince to death for alleged war crimes

October 9, 2020

A Yemeni court has issued death sentences against ten defendants including President Donald Trump, Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and crown prince Mohammed Bin...

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Yemen’s warring parties agree to their largest prisoner swap as U.N. seeks ceasefire

September 27, 2020

The U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen wants to build on Sunday’s announcement of the largest prisoner exchange agreement in the five-year conflict to pave the...

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Yemen’s terrifying road to Taez on brink of collapse

September 25, 2020

Convoys of vehicles big and small move at a snail's pace as they squeeze past each other on a dangerous road that links Yemen's Taez...

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Houthi weapon-smuggling cell linked to Iran’s revolutionary guards apprehended

September 20, 2020

A militant loyal to Yemen's Houthi militia stands guard during a rally commemorating the death of Shiite Imam Zaid bin Ali in the capital Sanaa,...

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UN laments Yemen fighting, calls on Arab donors to pay up

September 15, 2020

A Yemeni child suffering from acute malnutrition is bathed by his mother at a camp in Abs in northern Yemen's Hajjah province -- the United...

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Saudi coalition in Yemen launches air strikes in Sanaa: coalition-backed Yemeni forces, residents

September 12, 2020

The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen launched air strikes early on Saturday on two sites in the capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the Houthi movement,...

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Saudi-Led coalition destroys explosive-laden drone launched by Yemen’s Houthis – SPA

September 6, 2020

The Saudi-led coalition forces fighting in Yemen on Sunday intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone over Yemeni airspace fired by Iran-aligned Houthis towards Saudi Arabia,...

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Saudi-led coalition destroys explosive-laden drone, boat launched by Yemen’s Houthis: SPA

August 31, 2020

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen intercepted and destroyed an explosive-laden drone at Saudi Arabia’s Abha international airport and a remotely controlled explosive-laden boat in...

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Senior al-Qaeda commander planning attack arrested by Yemen’s military

August 31, 2020

The Yemeni official said that the terrorist was coming from the central province of Ma'rib to carry out a terror operation in the capital. Houthi...

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Yemen southern separatists pull out of Riyadh agreement talks

August 26, 2020

Yemen’s southern separatists have suspended their participation in consultations on a power-sharing deal for the south, known as the “Riyadh agreement”, a Southern Transitional Council...

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Yemen’s Houthis release six Baha’i prisoners

July 31, 2020

Yemen’s Houthi authorities on Thursday released six Baha’i faith members from prison, where United Nations human rights experts said they had been held as prisoners...

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U.N. still waiting for Houthi approval to visit decaying oil tanker off Yemen

July 29, 2020

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was still waiting for Yemen’s Houthi group to authorize deployment of an assessment team to a decaying oil...

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Yemeni blogger jailed by Saudi court for supporting equal gay rights: group

July 28, 2020

A Saudi court has sentenced a Yemeni blogger to 10 months in prison, a fine of 10,000 riyals ($2,600) and deportation for a social media...

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Bombed and looted: Yemen battles to save its heritage

July 24, 2020

One side of the National Museum in Taez has been beautifully restored to its former grandeur AHMAD AL-BASHA AFP The two facades of the National...

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Yemen’s children starve amid rising fears of famine

July 22, 2020

Weighing just 9kg at ten years old, Hassan Merzam Muhammad is so emaciated by the severe malnourishment plaguing hundreds of thousands of Yemeni children like...

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UN warns of alarming rise of hunger in war-torn Yemen

July 22, 2020

The report 'is telling us that Yemen is again on the brink of a major food security crisis,' Grande said ESSA AHMED AFP/File Acute food...

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UN Yemen envoy calls for probe into civilian deaths from air strikes

July 17, 2020

The United Nations envoy on Yemen called on Thursday for a transparent investigation into air strikes that killed at least 11 civilians in al-Jawf province,...

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Tanker off Yemen risks spilling four times as much oil as Exxon Valdez – U.N.

July 16, 2020

If action is not taken to deal with a deteriorating oil tanker stranded off the coast of war-torn Yemen there is a risk it could...

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Black Yemenis remain in shadows, far from global protests

July 16, 2020

Black Yemenis count among the poorest of the poor in the Arab world's most impoverished country blighted by more than five years of conflict Mohammed HUWAIS...

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Yemen’s Houthis agree to give U.N. access to abandoned tanker – sources

July 12, 2020

Yemenâ€™s Houthi movement has agreed to provide the United Nations access to a stranded oil tanker that risks causing an environmental disaster off the coast...

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Iran denies US seizure of Iranian arms on way to Houthis in Yemen

July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

The United States has reimposed sanctions to throttle Iran's oil trade and pressure Tehran to renegotiate the deal, give up its ballistic missiles, and cease...

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Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says explosive boats destroyed in Red Sea – Saudi TV

July 9, 2020

The Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi group in Yemen said it destroyed two explosive-laden boats in the Red Sea, Saudi state TV reported...

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Saudi-led coalition starts military operation against Yemen’s Houthis

July 3, 2020

A worker reacts as he stands on the wreckage of a vehicle oil and tires store hit by Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen July...

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Saudi-led coalition launches military operation against Houthis in Yemen – state TV

July 1, 2020

The Saudi-led coalition has started a military operation against the Yemeni Houthi movement after it stepped up cross-border missile and drone attacks on Saudi Arabia,...

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More Yemeni children face malnourishment amid aid shortage, coronavirus: UNICEF

June 26, 2020

The number of malnourished children in Yemen could rise to 2.4 million by the end of the year due to a big shortfall in humanitarian...

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Saudi-led coalition deploys troops to monitor truce between Yemeni allies

June 24, 2020

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said on Wednesday it deployed troops in the province of Abyan to monitor a ceasefire between the internationally recognised...

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Yemen’s Houthis attack deep in Saudi Arabia, al Masirah TV says

June 23, 2020

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement carried out a “large-scale attack” deep in Saudi Arabia, the movement’s Al Masirah television said on Tuesday, without elaborating. The Saudi-led...

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UAE-backed separatists stage coup in Yemen’s Socotra

June 22, 2020

Yemeni separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday staged a coup in Yemen's Socotra island, taking control of military and police camps....

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The story of African refugees and migrants stuck inside Yemen’s war

June 20, 2020

Despite six years of war and hardship in Yemen, Somali refugee Bader Hassan had stuck it out hoping for a better life than in his...

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Yemen pledging drive hopes to raise $2.4 billion to save aid ops as virus spreads

June 2, 2020

3-4 minutes The United Nations and Saudi Arabia host a pledging conference for war-ravaged Yemen on Tuesday to help raise some $2.4 billion as funding...

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The Nasna Foundation – Meet Yemen’s female entrepreneurs

May 23, 2020

Alternative stoves, special heat-retaining cooking bags aid during wartime gas shortage. A UN Population Fund respresentative inspects the Solar Oven (photo credit: NASNA FOUNDATION) Hind...