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  • Yemen’s rebels optimistic after Saudi Arabia peace talks

    Among the rebels' demands were the payment of salaries for Houthi appointed civil servants, the release of Houthi prisoners and the launch of new routes from the airport in Houthi-controlled Sanaa. The Saudi Foreign Ministry released a statement welcoming the "positive result of the serious discussions regarding reaching a road map to support the peace path in Yemen." The Houthi delegation also met Saudi Arabia's defense minister Prince Khalid bin Salman, brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

  • Saudi Arabia welcomes positive results of talks to support peace process in Yemen

    The Houthi delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia last week. It was the first such official visit to the kingdom since the war broke out in Yemen in 2014 after the Iran-aligned group ousted a Saudi-backed government there. The talks are focused on a full reopening of Houthi-controlled ports and Sanaa airport, payment of wages for public servants, rebuilding efforts, and a timeline for foreign forces to quit Yemen. An agreement would allow the United Nations to restart a broader political peace process.

  • Saudi Arabia welcomes positive results of talks to support peace process in Yemen

    Saudi Arabia welcomed positive results from discussions to reach a road map supporting the peace process in Yemen, the kingdom's foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday, after Houthi negotiators' talks with the Saudis in Riyadh. Houthi enovys left Riyadh on Tuesday after a five-day round of talks with Saudi officials on ending the eight-year-old conflict in Yemen, sources familiar with the meeting and Houthi media said.

  • Saudi Arabia praises ‘positive results’ after Yemen’s Houthi rebels visit kingdom for peace talks

    Saudi Arabia on Wednesday praised the “positive results” of negotiations with Yemen's Houthi rebels after they visited the kingdom for peace talks, though Riyadh released few details on their discussions to end the war tearing at the Arab world's poorest nation. The five days of talks, which represented the highest-level, public negotiations with the Houthis in the kingdom, come as Saudi Arabia tries a renewed bid to end the yearslong coalition war it launched on Yemen. That conflict had become enmeshed in a wider regional proxy war the kingdom faced against its longtime regional rival Iran, with which it reached a détente earlier this year.

  • Saudi Arabia executes 2 soldiers convicted of treason as it conducts war on Yemen’s Houthi rebels

    Saudi Arabia executed two soldiers Thursday who were convicted of treason as the kingdom conducted its war on Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

  • Delegation from Yemen’s Houthi rebels flies into Saudi Arabia for peace talks with kingdom

    A delegation from Yemen's Houthi rebels has flown into Saudi Arabia for talks with the kingdom on potentially ending the yearslong war tearing at the Arab world's poorest nation, officials said. It remains unclear what terms are being discussed between Riyadh and the Iranian-backed Houthis, who have held Yemen's capital of Sanaa since September 2014. But this first public trip by a senior Houthi delegation comes after regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran reached a Chinese-mediated détente earlier this year and as there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity between the different parties in the proxy war. This latest effort appears to have begun with a visit Monday to Oman by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the assertive son of King Salman who launched the kingdom-led war back in March 2015. Oman long has served as an interlocutor between both Iran and the Houthis during the war.

  • Yemen: Saudi and UAE Ambitions Threaten Fragile Truce With Houthis

    US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking held talks in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh last week aimed at ensuring tensions between the Gulf powers — and the factions they back — don’t undermine efforts to end the conflict, according to two Yemeni officials who met with him. His office declined to comment. Saudi government officials did not respond to written questions and multiple follow up calls. A US official, who didn't want to be named because of the delicate discussions underway, said Washington was working through "existing channels" toward "de-escalation and a durable resolution to the conflict."

  • V&A to look after ancient Yemen stones found in London shop

    The V&A is to look after four ancient carved funerary stones that were found by police in a shop in east London in a historic agreement with Yemen. The stelae, which date from the second half of the first millennium BC, come from necropoli that have been looted in recent years. The V&A will care for, research and conserve the stelae on a temporary basis before they are returned to Yemen when it is safe to do so. In the meantime they will be on show to the public as part of a display on Culture in Crisis at the V&A East Storehouse from 2025.

  • Saudi Arabia offers free education to Yemeni students in the kingdom

    Yemeni students will be allowed to attend government schools free of charge, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Education has announced. Saudi Arabia will offer education free of cost to Yemeni's who hold a valid visitor's visa or ID card. The announcement comes in “continuation of the kingdom's humanitarian stances with the brotherly Yemeni people,” Saudi Press Agency said on Tuesday, following years of conflict and widespread disruption in the country.

  • Continued hostility undermining Yemen peace hopes, UN envoy says

    Progress towards a political solution to Yemen's civil war is being held back by the continued exchange of threats between the government and Houthi rebels, the UN special envoy has told the UN Security Council. Despite a lull of more than a year in the fighting between Iran-backed rebels and the internationally recognised government, the UN has struggled to bring both sides to the negotiating table. The UN special envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said in a briefing to the Security Council late on Wednesday that "public threats to return to war", as well as economic warfare between the government and rebels, were undermining peace efforts.