The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has given the United Nations permission to resume flights of aid workers to the Houthi-controlled capital on Saturday, but not to dock ships loaded with wheat and medical supplies, a U.N. spokesman said. The coalition fighting the armed...

Three people have died of suspected diphtheria in conflict-hit Yemen, doctors said on Wednesday, as the World Health Organisation and International Committee of the Red Cross warned the disease was spreading. "Currently, there is an increase in diphtheria cases, due to the poor...

A tribal sheikh was assassinated late Wednesday in the city of Shibam in Yemen’s eastern Hadhramaut province, according to a senior security source. "Unknown gunmen opened fire on Sheikh Abdullah bin Amer al-Kathiri in Shibam’s Baheira district," the security source, who spoke on...

By  Jamal Khashoggi When  Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen  erupted in March 2015, there was widespread Saudi popular support for it – including by me. Like other Saudi citizens, I was concerned about Iran’s sectarian expansionist policies, as its influence has extended...