Yemen war

Yemen’s government needs weapons, but they can’t come from the US or Israel, expert tells 'Post'

Though an expert from the Royal United Services Institute said that the Houthis needed to be defeated, he insisted this could only come about by empowering the legitimate government - not airstrikes.

Houthi control around Bab el-Mandeb gives Iran-aligned forces leverage over a second major maritime choke point, opposite the Strait of Hormuz on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula. A Yemeni government army officer gestures as he rides a boat in Bab el-Mandeb, Yemen, April 2.
Yemeni security soldiers stand in front of a screen broadcasting Houthi-run forces launching a missile, during a demonstration staged to support missile forces in protecting the country's sovereignty and to denounce the Saudi accusation that Yemenis are attempting to attack Maca, on September 18.

Five killed as Houthis target Yemen's presidential palace in Aden with missiles

Houthi control around Bab el-Mandeb gives Iran-aligned forces leverage over a second major maritime choke point, opposite the Strait of Hormuz on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula. A Yemeni government army officer gestures as he rides a boat in Bab el-Mandeb, Yemen, April 2.PremiumPremium

Yemen might be far away from Israel, but the Houthi threat is not - analysis

Large plume of black smoke rises from the fuel storage area at King Khalid International Airport, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, September 19, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone.

Saudi Arabia expected to ramp up strikes on Houthis after deadly Riyadh airport attack, experts say


Yemeni rebels are helping restore a 160-year old Jewish cemetery

A Yemeni official told Kan that the renovation is a “message to all Aden residents that Aden is a city of peace and that we will not accept any harm to any holy site.”

 PEOPLE SHOP at a market in Taiz, Yemen, just before the two-month nationwide truce took effect, on April 2.

Yemen’s UN-backed extended truce brings peace - analysis

This is considered to be the first real era of calm in seven years. The truce began back in April and was extended in June.

 PEOPLE SHOP at a market in Taiz, Yemen, just before the two-month nationwide truce took effect, on April 2.

Houthi leader, de facto Yemeni president, says not opposed to long truce

Saudis would also benefit from a longer break in the civil war, analysts tell The Media Line.

Mahdi al-Mashat, who was appointed to succeed Saleh al-Samad as head of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, attends the funeral procession held for al-Samad and his six body guards, killed by Saudi-led air strikes last week, at a mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, April 28, 2018.

Yemen’s truce could be a step toward peace or a warriors’ respite - analysis

The country’s citizens believe the United Nations-brokered agreement came only to help the battling parties get their affairs in order.

 A HOUTHI fighter sits behind sandbags near a checkpoint in Sanaa, Yemen.

Can Lebanon get back on track? - opinion

For Lebanon, dominated by Iran’s proxy but seeking to mend fences with the Sunni Arab world, the way out of the economic, security and diplomatic forest will be long and difficult.

 Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh speaks during a news conference at Central Bank in Beirut, Lebanon, November 11, 2019.

GCC officials consider inviting Yemen Houthis to consultations in Riyadh

The Gulf Cooperation Council is considering an initiative to host Houthi officials in Riyadh in an attempt to bring the eight-year conflict in Yemen to an end.

SAUDI ARABIA’S King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud talks with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah during the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) 40th Summit in Riyadh, in December.

These Yemeni women went from marginalized to the forefront

Three female role models who, despite the war in their country, have been able to raise awareness of women’s rights, and serve their sisters and society as a whole.

 Ashwaq Mahmoud (C) works in a room inside her house which she turned into a health clinic to provide care for the people in her village and neighboring villages, in Abs District, Hajjah Governorate, Yemen.

US sanctions international network funding Yemen's Houthis

Due to recent development in the Yemeni civil war, the US treasury will sanction the international network funding the Houthis.

 BRANDISHING POSTERS of top Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the ousting of the government, in Sana’a, Yemen, September 21.

Saudi-led coalition bombs telecoms compound in Yemen's Sanaa - residents

Houthi telecommunications minister Misfer Al-Numair denied that the facilities were being used for military purposes.

 Smoke rises from the site of a Saudi-led air strike on the telecommunications compound in Sanaa, Yemen February 14, 2022.

Intercepted drone shrapnel injures 12 at Saudi Abha airport

The coalition has been fighting the Houthis since early 2015 after the group ousted Yemen's internationally recognized government from power in the capital Sanaa.

 A damaged glass window is pictured at Saudi Arabia's Abha airport, after it was attacked by a Houthi drone strike, in Abha, Saudi Arabia August 31, 2021.