SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's information minister says Shiite Houthi rebels are shelling the residence of the country's president as they also swept into the presidential palace in the capital, Sanaa. The minister, Nadia al-Sakkaf posted on her Twitter account on Tuesday...

Shiite militia clashed with Yemen's army and fired on a convoy carrying the prime minister on Monday as pressure mounted on the embattled government of President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. The militiamen, known as Huthis, opened fire on the convoy carrying Prime Minister Khalid Bahah in the...

(Reuters) - The Yemeni army and Houthi fighters clashed near the presidential palace in the capital Sanaa on Monday, a Reuters witness said, in the sharpest escalation of tensions since the Shi'ite Muslim movement took over the city in September. Gunfire and explosions were...

(Reuters) -  Saudi Arabia  has postponed Friday's public flogging of activist and blogger Raif Badawi on medical grounds, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Badawi was subjected to the first 50 lashes a week ago and was due to be flogged again after...