Yemen's Houthi group said Thursday that it has targeted 166 ships associated with Israel, the U.S. and the U.K. since last November. In a televised speech, Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi said his group carried out 10 drone and missile attacks this week. "Our naval operation...
The International Organization for Migration announced the deportation of about 1,400 African migrants from Yemen in May this year. The organization stated that the number of migrants returning to the Horn of Africa from Yemen increased by about a third in May compared to April. Thousand...
A suspected attack by Yemen's Houthis targeted a vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday, the latest by the group on the crucial maritime trade corridor. British military's UK Maritime Trade Operations center said the captain of the ship reported an explosion near the shi...
Yemen's Ansar Allah (Houthi) leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi warned Riyadh against colluding with the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Israeli regime against Yemen. He indicated that Saudi cooperation with the Americans would harm Saudi Arabia and would not serve the Saudi nat...
The United States of America and the Sultanate of Oman held discussions on the latest developments in the situation in Yemen in light of the continued attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The U.S. State Department stated - in a statement - that the U.S. env...
An abandoned tanker that was drifting off Yemen's coast in June has disappeared and is believed to have sunk, three navy and security sources said, the latest vessel lost in the strategically important Red Sea. The area, on the main shipping route from Europe to Asia, is considered h...
The Masam demining project removed 755 mines in various regions of Yemen, including 47 anti-tank mines, 707 unexploded ordnance, and one explosive device during the fourth week of June 2024, according to a statement by the Masam project. The demining team removed one anti-tank mine and 1...
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Sunday it had received a report of an incident 13 nautical miles southwest of Yemen's Mocha, but that the vessel and its crew were safe. An UKMTO advisory note said a merchant vessel had reported being approached by 12 smal...
Yemen's economy continues to face significant hurdles as ongoing conflict and regional tensions exacerbate the nation's economic and humanitarian crises, according to the latest World Bank Yemen Economic Monitor. The report said Yemen's GDP is projected to contract by 1.0% in...
Today, Wednesday, the Yemeni and Egyptian foreign ministers began a round of strategic dialogue in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman and Director of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said that the dialogue began...
United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Sunday that the captain and crew of a vessel 96 nautical miles southeast of Yemen's Nishtun were forced to abandon ship after it suffered flooding that could not be contained. The crew has been recovered by an assisti...
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is sailing out of the waters of the Middle East, after eight months of skirmishes and fights with Houthi militants over the waters around Yemen. The aircraft carrier and the three ships that make its carrier strike group are now set to head into the European ...
The United Nations said that nearly 53,000 displaced people in Yemen have been affected by heavy rains and severe flooding in the first five months of 2024. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in a recent report that more than 7,...
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called on Tuesday for the immediate release of all United Nations staff held in Yemen by the de facto Houthi authorities following the detention of 13 of the Organization’s personnel. Four additional U.N. staff members have been detain...
The US military said on Tuesday that its forces had destroyed two anti-ship cruise missile launchers in a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen. US Central Command said on the social media site X that the missile launchers "presented an imminent threat to US and coalition forces and to me...
Two ships caught fire after being hit by projectiles off Yemen's Aden, two UK maritime agencies reported on Sunday. The British security firm Ambrey said that an Antigua and Barbuda-flagged general cargo ship was struck by a missile 83 nautical miles southeast of Aden and caught fire...
Twenty out of Yemen's 22 governorates have seen a surge in the number of people with acute watery diarrhea, with 63,000 cases in 2024 as of May 31, Doctors Without Borders has said. Despite the limited testing capacity in the country, more than 2,700 of the cases tested came back pos...
The Chief of Staff of the Marib-based Third Military Region, Brigadier General Abdul Raqeeb Dabwan, conducted a field visit to remove barriers and dunes from the road linking the Al Bayda-Marib provinces in preparation for the reopening of the main roads for passengers and civilians afte...
At least 18 combatants have been killed in battles between Yemeni government forces and Iran-backed Houthis in the country's southwest, two military officials said Thursday. The clashes on Wednesday were triggered by a Houthi attack on a frontline area between government-controlled p...
Houthi security forces have detained 11 United Nations personnel in Yemen over the past three days, and the U.N. is seeking their safe and unconditional release as soon as possible, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, said on Friday. He said the U.N. was very concerned about the develop...
