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WORLD
Aug 9, 2015
Anti-Houthi forces take strategic city in Yemen, UAE troops killed
Fighters backed by an Arab military coalition seized the key city of Zinjibar in southern Yemen on Saturday, residents and militia sources said, dealing another major blow to the dominant Houthi group.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 3, 2015
Houthi boss dismisses loss of Aden, orders rebels to fight on
The leader of Yemen's Houthis urged his militia on Sunday to fight on against Yemen's Gulf Arab-backed government, dismissing its recapture of Aden last month as a "limited" achievement made possible by Ramadan.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 21, 2015
Islamic State branch claims responsibility for deadly car blast outside Sanaa mosque
Islamic State's Yemen branch claimed responsibility for a car blast outside a mosque used by the Houthi group on Monday that police sources and medics said killed five people and wounded seven others.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 15, 2015
Saudi-backed Yemeni forces break stalemate, seize Aden airport in sudden push
Yemeni forces recaptured Aden's international airport and some city districts from Houthi militia fighters on Tuesday, in a sudden advance after months of stalemate, the exiled government said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 7, 2015
Yemen truce talks clouded by intense Saudi-led bombardment of Houthi positions
Nearly 100 people were killed on Monday in airstrikes across Yemen, the Houthi-run state news agency reported, as a Saudi-led coalition stepped up attacks that are likely to weigh on efforts to broker a humanitarian truce.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 18, 2015
Islamic State claims its car bombs killed, wounded 50 in Houthi-held Sanaa
Car bombs killed or injured at least 50 people near mosques and the headquarters of Yemen's dominant Houthi group in Sanaa on Wednesday, in coordinated attacks claimed by Islamic State.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 15, 2015
Hadi's fledgling ground force faces tall order in halting Houthi advances in Yemen
Crawling under barbed wire and leaping over burning tires, dozens of bare-chested young fighters train in a barren part of central Yemen, preparing to head to the front lines of their country's worsening conflict.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 14, 2015
Houthi forces in Yemen seize provincial capital
Houthi forces and their army allies in Yemen seized the capital of a large desert province on the border with Saudi Arabia on Sunday, residents said, an important victory for the group ahead of peace talks in Geneva on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 26, 2015
Peace talks scrubbed as fighting engulfs Yemen; Houthis suffer first key setback in south
Local Sunni Muslim militia ejected Shiite Houthi rebels from much of the southern Yemeni city of Dalea on Monday, residents and combatants said, inflicting the first significant setback on the Iranian-backed rebels in two months of civil war.
WORLD
May 20, 2015
Iran warships 'linked up' with apparent Yemen-bound freighter, Pentagon says
The Pentagon said on Tuesday that two Iranian warships have "linked up" with a cargo ship that Iran has said is carrying humanitarian aid to Yemen, as activists on board the vessel said it was due to arrive at the Yemeni port of Hodaida on Thursday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 13, 2015
What can Obama salvage from Arab summit?
President Barack Obama must try to convince the Gulf Cooperation Council that the U.S. has an Iran policy that encompasses their security needs.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 13, 2015
Saudi-led airstrikes hammer Sanaa hours before truce; U.S. urges Iran to divert freighter to Djibouti
Saudi-led airstrikes hit the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday hours before a five-day humanitarian truce was set to begin, and Washington cautioned against "provocative actions" after Iran dispatched a cargo ship to Yemen.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 11, 2015
Saudi-proposed five-day truce starting Tuesday in Yemen gets conditional Houthi nod
Yemen's dominant Houthi group accepted a five-day humanitarian cease-fire proposed by its adversary, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday but said it would respond to any violations of the pause.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 4, 2015
Did America's drone strikes lose Yemen?
The U.S. drone program, which is responsible for the deaths of many innocent civilians, is fundamentally flawed and should not be perpetuated.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 1, 2015
Besieged Aden sees worst fighting yet
Airstrikes and artillery fire rocked the Yemeni city of Aden overnight as combatants battled for control of the main airport in fighting residents said was the worst in over a month of war.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 29, 2015
Saudi-led airstrike on Sanaa airport a bid to stop Iranian plane from landing; aid crisis worsens
Jets from a Saudi-led alliance destroyed the runway of Yemen's Sanaa airport on Tuesday to prevent an Iranian plane from landing there, Saudi Arabia said, as fighting across the country killed at least 30 people.
BUSINESS
Apr 27, 2015
Mideast supply disruption threat sends oil trading to near four-month high
Oil traded near the highest price since December on concern that Middle East supplies may be disrupted as Saudi Arabia expanded its military campaign against Yemen.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 27, 2015
Yemen fighting escalates as more bombs fall on Sanaa targets
Air raids, naval shelling and ground fighting shook Yemen on Sunday in some of the most widespread combat since a Saudi-led alliance intervened last month against Iranian-allied Houthi militia who have seized large tracts of the country.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 23, 2015
Houthi soldiers defying the odds against them
There is no reason to believe so far that the Houthi rebels have anything other than Yemen's peaceful survival in mind.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 22, 2015
Pentagon says Iranian flotilla a factor leading to boosted U.S. warship deployment off Yemen
The Pentagon said on Tuesday the presence of a large convoy of Iranian cargo ships in the Arabian Sea was one factor in the U.S. decision to deploy additional warships in the waters off war-torn Yemen but was not the primary reason for the move.

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