The UN special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, commended the positive spirit the two parties are demonstrating at talks underway in Sweden in the pursuit of peace in Yemen. “The two parties are engaged in a serious and constructive way in discussing the details of confidence-building measures, the reduction of violence, and the framework for […]

The forces of the Yemeni army and Popular Committees, in a retaliatory attack against the Riyadh-led coalition, fired six domestically made missiles at the Saudi-backed militants in the kingdom’s southwestern border region of Jizan, local reports said. The Yemeni forces hit the positions of the Saudi military and its mercenaries with six Zelzal-1 (Quake-1) ballistic […]

The United Nations called for the immediate removal of Saudi Arabia’s blockade on Yemen as talks to end the ongoing war against the impoverished country begin in Sweden. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on the Houthi Ansarullah movement and Yemen’s former Saudi-backed government to show flexibility and make room for progress. “I welcome the opening […]

Yemeni forces and fighters from popular committees targeted militants’ positions in Saudi Arabia’s border region of Asir in a counterattack, killing and injuring scores of them. The mercenaries suffered serious losses after attempting to sneak into Yemen’s soil from the direction of the Aleeb crossing, a military official told Saba news agency. The militants were backed by […]

The United Nations appealed for $21.9 billion on Tuesday to address 21 humanitarian crises worldwide next year, including $4 billion for Yemen, its largest aid operation. The appeal to donor countries does not include the funding requirements for Syria, which are expected to bring the total up to $25 billion, it added, Reuters reported. Speaking […]

A Houthi official says the Saudi-led coalition and militants fighting on its behalf in Yemen have signed a UN-brokered deal for exchanging prisoners with the Houthi Ansarullah movement, prior to the peace negotiations due to be launched in Sweden. Abdul Qader al-Murtaza, chairman of the Houthi-run Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, confirmed the news to Turkey’s […]

Houthi officials are expected to travel to Sweden for talks as early as Wednesday to end the nearly 4-year-old Saudi-led war on Yemen. UN special envoy Martin Griffiths arrived in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Monday to escort the Houthi delegation. The peace talks may start Wednesday, two sources familiar with the matter said, Reuters […]

At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed and injured when Saudi warplanes targeted an area of Yemen’s northern province of Sa’ada. According to Yemen’s Saba news agency, the Saudi aerial aggression targeted residential areas in the Kataf district on Monday, killing four and injuring nine civilians there. Since March 2015, the Saudi regime, […]

The UN’s Yemen envoy, Martin Griffiths, landed at Sana’a international airport in Yemen Monday for talks with Houthis ahead of planned peace talks in Sweden this month. An AFP photographer at the airport said Griffiths did not take questions on arrival. Fifty wounded Houthis will also be evacuated from Sana’a for medical treatment Monday, the […]

 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated on Friday that Iran’s four-point plan is still the only viable option to resolve the Yemeni crisis. “I said this on the crisis in Yemen in April 2015. Today, after untold human suffering & war crimes by the Saudi coalition & its U.S. accomplices, & efforts to whitewash […]