New U.N. access to Hodeida mills could boost Yemen aid operation against famine
The United Nations regained access to a grain facility near Yemen's Hodeida port on Tuesday, potentially allowing an increase in food aid to millions at risk of starvation after years of devastating war, humanitarian officials said. The breakthrough was announced by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ...
Yemen's Houthis to quit two ports Monday under peace deal: sources
Iranian-aligned Houthi forces have agreed to draw back from two Yemeni ports on Monday while withdrawal from the main Hodeidah port will occur later alongside a retreat by coalition-backed forces massed outside the city, U.N. and Yemeni sources said. Houthi forces will withdraw 5 km ...
Riyadh vows to release seven Houthi prisoners after freed Saudi arrives home
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said that seven Houthi prisoners will be released, after a Saudi prisoner freed by the group arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday, Saudi state television reported. Saudi prisoner Mousa Awaji was returned on a Red Cross plane from Sanaa on Tuesday ...
U.N. approves mission to shore up Yemen truce at key port of Hodeida
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved Wednesday the deployment to Yemen of up to 75 monitors in a new mission to shore up a fragile cease-fire and oversee a pullback of forces from the flash-point port of Hodeida. The observer mission was agreed during talks ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced a tough balancing act Monday as he pressed Saudi Arabia's crown prince over critic Jamal Khashoggi's murder while shoring up strategic ties with Riyadh. The top U.S. diplomat, on an extensive Middle East tour, held talks with King ...
U.N. welcomes Houthi pullout from Yemen's embattled Hodeida but says move must be verified
The United Nations welcomed on Sunday any redeployment of Yemen's Houthi forces away from the port city of Hodeida, but said this should be independently verified to ensure it is in line with the Stockholm cease-fire agreement. On Saturday, the Iranian-aligned movement said it had ...
U.N. cease-fire monitoring chief visits key Yemen port of Hodeida
The head of the United Nations team tasked with monitoring a fragile ceasefire in the flash-point city of Hodeida on Monday visited its lifeline docks, a port official said. Retired Dutch Gen. Patrick Cammaert called on Saudi-backed government forces and Iran-linked Houthi rebels to respect ...
Blasts heard in Yemen's main port city of Hodeida on first day of truce
Four blasts were heard in Yemen's main port city of Hodeida late on Tuesday on the first day of a cease-fire agreed between the Iran-aligned Houthi movement and the Saudi-backed government at U.N.-led peace talks last week, residents said. One resident told Reuters the blasts ...
Fighting around Yemen's Hodeida leaves 12 dead, 25 wounded on eve of cease-fire
Yemeni officials say fighting between Shiite rebels and forces loyal to Yemen's internationally recognized government near the strategic Red Sea port of Hodeida has killed at least 12 people and wounded 25 from both sides. They said the fighting south and east of Hodeida began ...
Yemen's warring parties agree to Hodeida cease-fire at U.N. talks
Yemen's warring parties on Thursday agreed to a cease-fire on a vital port in a series of breakthroughs in U.N.-brokered peace talks that could mark a major turning point after four years of devastating conflict. If implemented, the deal on the Hodeida port, a key ...
50 wounded Houthi rebels evacuated to Oman ahead of Yemen peace talks as U.N. envoy visits
The U.N.'s Yemen envoy visited rebel-held Sanaa on Monday as wounded insurgents were flown out of the capital for medical treatment, a key step towards bringing warring parties to the negotiating table in Sweden. A U.N. source said efforts were being made to reopen Sanaa ...
Sanaa water supplies sterilized as world's worst cholera outbreak surges
Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks and houses to help stem the world's worst outbreak of cholera. Nearly four years of war between a Saudi-led coalition and the Iranian-aligned Houthi group have crippled health care and ...
