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  • U.S. Fails to Assess Civilian Deaths in Yemen War, Internal Report Says

    The report spans the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, covering the period from 2015, when the war against the Houthis began, to 2021. It is the second major report by a U.S. agency that lays out government shortcomings in preventing civilian casualties in Yemen. In August 2020, the State Department inspector general issued a report that said the department had failed to take proper measures to reduce civilian deaths.

  • Yemenis preserve craft of dagger-making: Video

    In a small workshop in Sanaa, bright sparks fly as workers carefully sharpen short blades used to make traditional daggers.

  • UN says Yemen’s warring parties agree to renew truce

    The United Nations said Thursday that Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a nationwide truce for another two months. The development offered a glimmer of hope for the country, plagued by eight years of civil war — though significant obstacles remain to lasting peace. The cease-fire between Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels initially came into effect on April 2. And though each side at times accused the other of violating the cease-fire, it was the first nationwide truce in the past six years of the conflict in the Arab World’s most impoverished nation.

  • US lawmakers renew push to end Washington’s role in Yemen war

    More than 40 members of Congress introduce new War Powers resolution to end any US role in the Saudi-led coalition's efforts in Yemen

  • Biden welcomes Yemen truce extension, notes Saudi Arabia’s ‘courageous leadership’

    U.S. President Joe Biden welcomed the extension on Thursday of a U.N.-brokered truce between Yemen's warring parties, and said Saudi Arabia had demonstrated "courageous leadership" by endorsing and implementing its terms. "The last two months in Yemen, thanks to the truce brokered in April, have been among the most peaceful periods since this terrible war began seven years ago," Biden said in a statement.

  • Blast in Yemen fish market kills at least 4 people, wounds over 30

    At least four people were killed and more than 30 injured at a Yemen fish market when an explosive device planted in a trash can detonated, police in the port city of Aden said on Thursday. Medical charity Doctors Without Borders said on Twitter that its trauma hospital in Aden received 50 wounded patients, five of whom had died while six were seriously injured.

  • 3 killed after Saudi-led coalition’s drone crashed in Yemen’s capital: Houthi TV-Xinhua

    Three citizens were killed and three others were wounded in Sanaa after a Saudi "spy drone" crashed into a street on Monday, Houthi-run al-Masirah TV reported. The drone landed into a populous neighborhood, causing casualties and property damage, the news outlet quoted local health authorities as saying.

  • Saudi Arabia Aspires to Reach a Comprehensive Political Resolution in Yemen

    Prince Khalid said on his Twitter account that he “affirmed to him [Lenderking] the Saudi-led Coalition’s backing of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council and its supporting entities, and our aspirations for reaching a comprehensive political resolution to the crisis that will lead Yemen into peace and prosperity.”

  • Yemen: Houthis resume UN flights at Sanaa airport

    Yemen's Sanaa airport temporarily resumed permitting United Nations and international organisations' flights on Monday, according to the aviation authority run by the Houthi administration in control of the airport and the north of the country.

  • Saudi doctors separate conjoined twins from war-torn Yemen

    Doctors in Saudi Arabia have successfully separated conjoined twins from war-torn Yemen after a “complicated” 15-hour operation, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Monday.