The World Health Organization and other global agencies have launched the first oral cholera vaccination campaign in Yemen, aiming to reach millions of people in the war-torn country. More than 2,200 people have died of the waterborne infection over the past year in Yemen, with another...

Yemen’s formal alliance with the UAE may be coming to an end after the latter deployed forces to a Yemeni island without prior consultation with Yemen’s exiled government, a senior Yemeni official said Saturday. Over the past few days, the UAE has deployed some 300 soldiers, along...

Saudi Arabia has appointed a woman as a commercial attaché, the first such move in the history of the oil-rich kingdom. Samar Bint Mazin Saleh was named as a commercial attaché at the Saudi Commercial Attache’s office in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, according to a statement issued...

The Yemeni government on Sunday decried the deployment of Emirati troops on the strategic island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea.   In a statement cited by the official Saba news agency, the government said the difference between it and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) “revolves...