October 17th, 20200SANAA – On Thursday, planes carrying prisoners exchanged by the warring parties in Yemen took off from three airports in an operation to return about 1,000 men home and help build the trust to enable fresh talks to end a devastating war.
The Saudi-led military coalition and Yemen’s Houthi movement agreed last month in Switzerland to...
May 24th, 20190DUBAI — On Thursday, Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement launched a drone attack on a Patriot missile battery in the airport of the Saudi city of Najran near the Yemeni border, the group’s Al-Masirah TV said on Thursday.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said the drone was intercepted and destroyed by the...
February 15th, 20190HAJJAH, Yemen — Displaced by war, starving and living under a tree, 12-year-old Fatima Qoba weighed just 10kg when she was carried into a Yemeni malnutrition clinic.
“All the fat reserves in her body have been used up, she is left only with bones,” said Makiah al-Aslami, a doctor and head of the clinic in northwest Yemen. “She...
November 16th, 20180SANAA, Yemen — Saleh al-Faqeh held the wasted arm of his baby daughter as she took her last breath on Thursday at the malnutrition ward of the main hospital in Yemen’s capital Sanaa.
Four-month-old Hajar al-Faqeh reached the al-Sabeen hospital last week from Saada province, one of thousands of Yemeni children suffering from...
TAIZ, Yemen — Outside the home of Yemeni teacher Adel al-Shorbagy the queue of children lining up for education keeps getting longer.
Almost 700 come daily to his house that he converted into a school in the government-held city of Taiz, which has been at the center of a three-and-a-half-year civil war that has left millions on the...
September 16th, 20180SANAA — In the malnutrition ward of a hospital in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, doctors weigh toddlers with protruding rib cages and skeletal limbs.
Twenty children, most under the age of 2, being treated at the ward in Sab’een Hospital are among hundreds of thousands of children suffering from severe malnutrition in the impoverished...
August 11th, 20180ADEN — Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed dozens of people, including children traveling on a bus through a market, in Yemen’s Saada province, a Yemeni health official and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.
The Western-backed alliance fighting the Houthi Yemeni group said in a statement that...
July 6th, 20180
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration said on Thursday it would allow some 1,250 Yemenis to remain in the United States for at least another 18 months under protected status as war and a humanitarian crisis rage in their native country.
Yemenis in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) will be able to...
March 2nd, 20180WASHINGTON - Three senators will attempt to use congressional authority to get the United States to pull out of Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.
Republican Mike Lee of Utah, Democrat Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut, and independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont will attempt to use a provision in the 1973 War Powers Act, Reuters...
