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UN envoy visits Yemen for talks on key port city

 The United Nations envoy for Yemen arrived in Sanaa on Monday for another round of talks aimed at finding a solution to fighting in the key rebel-held port city of Hodeida. Martin Griffiths is set to meet with Yemen's Huthi rebels, who control the capital along with the Red Sea...

UAE announces pause in offensive on Yemen's Hudaida

The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday it had halted its military campaign against the Iran-aligned Houthis for control of Yemen's main port city of Hudaida to support U.N. efforts to reach a political solution. U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, has been shuttling between the...

Yemen army suffers losses in Al-Hudaydah, Al-Bayda

At least 15 soldiers were killed Wednesday in Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah and Al-Bayda provinces. According to an army-linked website, seven soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a landmine in Al-Hudaydah’s Al-Khokha district. “The vehicle struck a landmine after...

Yemen: 9 civilians killed in Saudi coalition airstrike

At least nine civilians were “mistakenly” killed on Tuesday and another 11 wounded in an air raid by the Saudi-led coalition in western Yemen’s Hudaydah province, a local military source said. The coalition’s fighter jets struck a bus carrying displaced people near a checkpoint...