(Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council imposed targeted sanctions on Friday on Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and two senior Houthi rebel leaders for threatening the peace and stability of the country and obstructing the political process. Lithuanian U.N....

(Reuters) - Yemen's president has announced a new cabinet including members of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi group that captured the capital Sanaa in September, state media said on Friday, in a move that could help end a crippling standoff in the Arab nation. Under a power-sharing...

(Reuters) - An Algerian national was shot dead and a Frenchman was wounded on Wednesday during a scuffle at a checkpoint operated by fighters of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi group in the southern part of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a police source said. The source said the...

(Reuters) - A senior al Qaeda official wanted by the United States and a local leader of the militant group's affiliate, Ansar al-Sharia, were killed in a drone strike in central Yemen overnight, tribal sources and a militant said on Wednesday. Nabil al-Dahab, leader of...