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Qatar backs renewed US calls for Yemen ceasefire

Qatar said it welcomed a renewed push by the United States for a ceasefire in Yemen and a return to U.N.-backed peace talks aimed at ending the three-and-half-year war. The administration of Donald Trump said Wednesday the climate was right to resume peace talks, following similar...

Gunmen in Yemen shoot dead senior anti-narcotics policeman

Yemen security officials say gunmen have shot dead a senior anti-narcotics police officer in the southern port city of Aden. They say the gunmen opened fire on the car in which Col. Fadl Sael was traveling along with two members of his security detail, instantly killing all three....

Yemen's infants face starvation as war rages on

Ahmed Hassan is only a few months old, but his emaciated frame twitches as he cries in pain when Yemeni doctors gently place him on a scale. He is starving. In the next room, nurses make baby formula by the pitcher, filling syringes to ration a portion for each malnourished child who...

Israel's Netanyahu pays surprise visit to Oman

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday paid a surprise visit to Oman. “The prime minister and his wife visited Oman, where they met [Omani] Sultan Qaboos bin Said,” read a statement from Netanyahu’s office.  According to the same statement, the visit...