Yemen's Houthi group has vowed to expand its operations against Israel if it escalates the war in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. "We say to the Israeli entity that if there is any escalation in Rafah or Gaza, you should know that our path is escalation," Mohammed Ali Al-...
Mohammed Abdulsalam, chief negotiator and spokesperson of the Houthis, said on Thursday that the recent meeting of the Sanaa delegation with Saudi Arabia officials has "resulted in overcoming the most important obstacles facing the roadmap" to peace. Abdulsalam said the Houthi ...
The Saudi defense minister, Prince Khalid Bin Salman, reiterated his country's support for Yemen and its commitment to efforts to promote talks that could resolve the conflict in the country. Bin Salman wrote on platform X, "Met with US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking to ...
On Tuesday, Brigadier General Mohsen Mohammed Al-Dhaheri, the Yemeni Minister of Defense, said during a meeting with the U.S. Ambassador to Yemen and the U.S. Military Attaché "supporting the legitimate government and its forces on the ground is the optimal way to restore the...
The demining Masam Project in Yemen announced that it removed more than four thousand mines, unexploded shells, and explosive devices in January 2024. The Masam Project Media Center said in a report a total of 4,245 mines, unexploded shells, and explosive devices were removed during Janu...
The Houthi group Monday said that the United States and Britain "targeted Yemen with 300 airstrikes" since the beginning of their attacks last month. Hussein Al-Azzi, the deputy foreign minister, said in a press conference the U.S.-UK strikes will not affect their stance on Ga...
Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) group said Sunday that it will launch retaliatory attacks for the U.S.-British airstrikes on six Yemeni provinces in North Yemen. "U.S.-British coalition airstrikes will not deter us from our support to Palestinian people in Gaza and will not pa...
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the "military approach" of the U.S., particularly recent attacks on Yemen, and relisting the Houthis as a terror group "complicated" the situation in Yemen. Amir-Abdollahian m...
Yemen's Houthi،s fired a ballistic missile Thursday at a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Red Sea, U.S. defense officials said. The attack happened west of Al-Hudaydah. The U.S. defense officials identified the targeted container ship as the Koi, a Bermuda-owned vessel. The off...
The European Union plans to launch a naval mission in the Red Sea within three weeks to help defend cargo ships against attacks by Yemen's Houthis, the bloc's top diplomat said Wednesday. Josep Borrell, EU foreign policy chief, said he wanted the mission to be up and running by F...
China on Tuesday said it supports Yemen's sovereignty and territorial integrity, urging for a political solution to the raging conflict in the Red Sea. In a meeting with Mansour Baggash, the under-secretary for political affairs of Yemen's Foreign Ministry, Chinese Vice Foreign M...
UK Royal Navy vessels in the Red Sea reportedly lack the missile systems to hit land targets in Yemen, forcing Royal Air Force warplanes to travel thousands of miles to hit Houthi positions.The UK has joined the US in efforts to secure commercial shipping routes in the Red Sea following ...
Yemen's internationally recognized government on Sunday said "defensive" U.S. and British strikes on the Houthis are not enough and called for U.S. and Saudi support to "eliminate" the Houthi ability to stage attacks on Red Sea shipping. Defensive operations are n...
Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis or risk harming business relations with Beijing, four Iranian sources and a diplomat familiar with the matter said. The Iranian sources said that the discuss...
The U.N. has paused the final stage of the scrapping of the Safer — a decaying floating storage and offloading tanker (FSO) — off Yemen because of increasing security risk in the Red Sea, the organization said on Thursday. "Regional developments have resulted in un...
Yemen's Houthi group has ordered all U.S. and British staff of the United Nations and its agencies to leave the country within a month, a U.N. official told AFP. In a letter dated January 20 and shared on social media, the authorities in the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa ...
A Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that strikes by the U.S. and U.K. on Yemen, launched in response to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, may cross out two years of settlement efforts in the war-torn Arab country. Speaking in an interview with the Russian state news agency TASS, the Russia...
Two U.S. Navy Seals have been declared dead by military officials, 10 days after they went missing in the Gulf of Aden during a mission targeting Iranian weapons deliveries to the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Seals had been reported missing in the days following the mission, which took pl...
Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has said the kingdom is “very worried” that tensions in the Red Sea amid attacks by Yemen’s Houthis and US strikes on Houthi targets could spiral out of control and escalate the conflict in the region. “I mean, of course, we a...
Commanders from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon's Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and oversee Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, four regional and two Iranian sources told Reuters. Iran stepped up its weapons supplies to ...
