Yemen: Understanding the conflict
The military conflict now escalating in Yemen threatens the lives of more than 250,000 people in the port city Hodeidah while 8 million more people across Yemen already risk starvation. The country is also facing the “worst cholera outbreak in modern history.” I am a scholar who has studied Yemen and worked as an Arabian Peninsula foreign affairs analyst […]
Saudi-led air strike kills 29 Yemenis, decimates market
At least 29 Yemeni civilians have been killed after a Saudi-led air strike “decimated” a busy market in the impoverished north of the country, witnesses and rebel media say. Local residents told Al Jazeera the raid targeted the Alaf market in the northern province of Saada shortly after midnight on Wednesday, killing 29 men and […]
Ramadan in Yemen: Fasting by day, starving by night
Sanaa – Fatima Salah, 58, does not sleep in the daytime as many do during the fasting month of Ramadan. Instead, she wanders the city of Sanaa visiting neighbours and local shops, hoping to obtain enough food to feed her family at night. “I am exhausted and thirsty because of walking, and I have been […]
US drone strike kills five suspected al-Qaeda fighters
A US drone strike has killed five suspected members of al-Qaeda in central Yemen, local media and a security official say. Yemen Ajel, a local news website, reported that the drone fired three consecutive missiles at 12:30am local time on Sunday, or 22:30 GMT, on Saturday at a car reportedly transporting weapons to Marib province. […]
Yemen: Airstrikes on Funeral “Kill 8 Women and a Child”
Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen said Thursday that an overnight airstrike has killed eight women and a child at a funeral reception near the capital, Sanaa. A spokesman for the Houthi rebels, Abdel-Rahman al-Ahnomi, said that there was a second airstrike that hit emergency responders in Arhab, which lies southwest of Sanaa, the BBC reported. The […]
Death toll in Yemen conflict passes 10,000
The United Nations’ humanitarian aid official in Yemen has said that the civilian death toll in the nearly two-year conflict has reached 10,000, with 40,000 others wounded. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Jamie McGoldrick said that the figure is based on lists of victims gathered by health facilities and the actual number […]
Yemen’s children starve as war drags on
As the first light of dawn trickles in through the hospital window, 19-year-old Mohammed Ali learns that his two-year-old cousin has died of hunger. But he has to remain strong for his little brother, Mohannad, who could be next. He holds his brother’s hand as the five-year-old struggles to breathe, his skin stretched tight over […]
WHO: 7,000 killed and 37,000 wounded in Yemen conflict
World Health Organisation says at least 7,000 people have been killed in Yemen’s 20-month civil war with the UN peace envoy warning the country is teetering on the “brink of the abyss.” In a statement released on Monday, the WHO said “more than 7,070 people had been killed and over 36,818 injured” as of October […]
Houthis Deny Firing Missile at Mecca After Saudi Claims
Saudi Arabia has accused Iranian-backed Houthi rebels of firing a missile at the holy city of Mecca Friday, an accusation the rebels have denied, saying they targeted an international airport. The Saudi military said that the missile was fired Thursday night from Yemen’s northwestern Saada province, which borders southern Saudi Arabia. The missile caused no […]
Yemen’s Houthis accused of firing missile at Mecca
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been accused of targeting Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca by launching a long-range ballistic missile from 500km over the border. The rebels and their ally Iran vehemently denied the allegation on Friday. The Saudi-led military coalition – which is backing Yemen’s pro-government forces in the conflict with the Shia fighters […]