Military police on Sunday began preventing qat from entering the city of Taiz in accordance with a decision  handed down by Taiz governorate’s emergency committee to ..

From May 19 to 20, Yemen’s National Emergency Committee for Coronavirus announced 50 new cases of coronavirus in Yemen, bringing the total to 184 confirmed cases nationwide, ..

Medical facilities in Aden and Taiz have run out of COVID-19 test kits, an official in the government’s National Emergency Committee for Coronavirus told Almasdar Online on ..

Coronavirus updates from around Yemen on Wednesday include quarantine escapees in Taiz and Hadhramout, curfews in Al-Mahra, a spike in unattributable deaths in Aden and Houthi ..

On ِApril 21, Ahmed Tahir Ahmed Jamil’s family in Taiz lost contact with him. Half a month later, the Houthis returned his corpse, bearing evidence of torture and five bullet..

Following the announcement of the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Taiz governorate on Friday, Gov. Nabil Shamsan, who also heads the Taiz Emergency Committee to Confront COVID-19,..

Col. Ali Saeed Al-Kaldi, a member of the Saudi-backed initiative to free Yemen of landmines known as MASAM, was killed by a landmine in the Mawza district of Taiz governorate, ..

Yemen's Health Ministry announced the opening of 27 quarantine centers in nine governorates on Thursday to cope with the potential spread of COVID-19 in the country. ..

The government’s Supreme National Emergency Committee for Coronavirus announced Friday that Yemen’s first confirmed case is in the coastal city of Al-Sheher in ..

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement that the bombing of the central prison in Taiz, allegedly carried out by the Houthis, could amount to a ..

Houthi artillery shells killed five women and a child and injured 28 others at the Central Prison in Taiz city on Sunday, an official in the local prosecutor's office told ..

One child was killed and another wounded by a Houthi sniper on Monday morning in the city of Taiz in southwestern Yemen. The child was killed and his relative was injured while ..

As the number of coronavirus cases and associated deaths continue to rapidly mount around the world, Yemen remains one of very few countries that has yet to report a single case of..

The Houthis have closed most of the roads in central Yemen that link their territory with areas under the control of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, under the ..

Several Houthi gunmen, including a commander, were killed while fighting the Yemeni army and pro-secession Southern Resistance Forces (SRF) in the Al-Shuraija area between Lahj and..

About 200 cattle have died in Taiz governorate in southwest Yemen after being infected with a viral plague from livestock supplied by the UN’s Food and Agricultural ..

When freelance journalist Anwar Al-Roke left Sana’a in late 2017 for his village in the Al-Raheda area in southern Taiz, he didn’t think the return home would take him ..

Fighting between the Ghadder Al-Shar’abi and Ghazwan Al-Mekhlafi armed gangs in Taiz governorate killed one gunman and injured five others, including two children in the ..

Switzerland-based Sam Organization for Rights and Freedoms (known as SAM) released a report on Monday spotlighting the horrors of torture practiced in the Houthi-run prisons of ..

Yemeni Army forces said they recaptured five hills in Al-Dhabab district in southwestern Taiz governorate after a week of heavy fighting with Houthi militants there.  The ..

Taiz Military police and local security service agencies announced on Sunday the arrest of a smuggling gang at Al-Hangar checkpoint at the southwest entrance to Taiz City..

A swarm of locusts engulfed Taiz City and its surrounding districts on Thursday from coastal areas and neighboring governorates.  Activists and photographers documented the..

The conflict in Yemen has divided countless families and communities, and given momentum to a range of groups calling for separation or greater regional autonomy. As the fighting ..

Masam, a Saudi-backed initiative to free Yemen of landmines, announced on Thursday that it cleared about 10 mined areas on the west coast of Taiz governorate in southwestern ..

On Aug. 8, 2016, Ruba’s world collapsed. A convoy of two armored vehicles, four pickup trucks and a bus loaded with armed men showed up at her family’s home in the ..

A young man and two girls have died from a viral fever, while dozens of others have been identified with the illness, in the Shara’b Al-Salam District along the northern ..

Yemeni government forces carried out a prisoner exchange deal with the Houthis in Taiz government on Thursday. A Yemeni military source in Taiz, who asked to remain anonymous, ..

The last battalions of Sudanese forces began their withdrawal from Yemen’s west coast Sunday morning after years of fighting as part of the Saudi-led coalition’s war ..

The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported more than 3,800 deaths from cholera in Yemen between October 2016 and September 2019. In its most recent report on the epidemic,..

Political parties and organizations in Taiz governorate have warned a prominent militia leader against the mobilization of fighters in the Yafros area of the Jabal Habashi ..

Leaders of the 35th Armored Brigade on Sunday held their first meeting since the assassination of Brig. Gen. Adnan Mohammed Al-Hammadi.  Presiding over the war staff ..

The Taiz Military Axis Command pledged to reveal the circumstances behind the recent murder of Brigadier General Adnan Al-Hammadi, commander of the 35th Armored Brigade in ..

Security belt forces of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) detained the chief of staff of the Taiz axis on Monday on the outskirts of Aden. A military source told ..

Health authorities have revealed that 10 citizens have died, approximately 8000 others have been infected with seasonal fever and Dengue fever in Taiz governorate.  ..

Two girls died and 15 others were infected with dengue fever in what is becoming an epidemic in the Al-Mocha district in western Taiz governorate. Local sources told Al-Masdar ..

A child was killed and two other members of the child’s family were injured when the Houthis shelled a village in Al-Sollu district, south of Taiz, in southwestern Yemen. ..

Two separate demonstrations in Taiz governorate took place on Saturday, demanding the dismissal of corrupt officials and the provision of basic services to residents.  ..

Three students were wounded by gunfire during an attack by Abu Al-Abbas brigades of the 35th Armored Brigade as they stormed a school on Wednesday morning in Al-Ma’afar ..

Eight people including five civilians were killed while 10 others were injured when the town of Al-Mocha was hit with a Houthi rocket on Wednesday evening. Local sources told ..

Senior officials and mediators from both warring parties held a meeting in Taiz city on Thursday to advance negotiations to lift the Houthi-imposed siege on the city. A delegation ..

Mines and improvised explosive devices planted by Houthi militias have claimed the lives of two children and two soldiers and a farmer in the past three days on Yemen's west ..

A three-year-old boy was killed by a mortar shell fired by Houthi militias Wednesday evening at the western entrance to the southwestern city of Taiz. A field source told ..

Nothing has benefited the Houthis in the course of their long war in Yemen more than the lack of accurate information about the group. There is little known about its structure, ..

During the first two years of Yemen’s civil war, in 2015 and 2016, the salaries of state employees continued to be paid despite a significant shortage of government revenues ..

From China in the East to Greece in the West, through Turkey, Iran, the Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman, along Africa’s eastern coasts and in every corner of Yemen, a ..

“All of the weapons that the [Houthis] possess is thanks to our aid.” With this clear sentence, the senior official in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), ..

Ahmed Hazaa works for a daily wage in construction in the sprawling city of Taiz, which is under the authority of the internationally recognized government, barely making enough to..

  At the end of 2018, Mohammed Ahmed Al-Sabri was smuggled out of a prison in Dhamar governorate after paying 4 million Yemeni riyals (about $8,000 at the time*) to ..

  Rare in Yemen’s modern history is the existence of a single, unified military. And when it happened, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh went to work building a ..

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has terminated its contract with its representative in Yemen, Al-Obaid Ahmed Al-Obaid, at the request of the Houthis, UN sources ..

One could be forgiven for having hoped that Yemen’s woes, which have kept away (most) tourists, could have kept away the coronavirus. Those wishes were dashed on April 10, ..

Military police on Sunday began preventing qat from entering the city of Taiz in accordance with a decision  handed down by Taiz governorate’s emergency committee to ..

The death of Sana’a University professor Mahmoud Daoud on Friday in Sana’a, which follows the death a week prior of Sana’a University president Dr. Ahmed ..

  Public Health and Population Minister Dr. Nasser Ba'oum announced Tuesday that a preliminary team of experts will arrive in the interim capital Aden on Thursday to ..

The Yemeni government announced on Saturday that it has accepted the initiative proposed by UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths for a ceasefire and resumption of the peace process, ..

From May 19 to 20, Yemen’s National Emergency Committee for Coronavirus announced 50 new cases of coronavirus in Yemen, bringing the total to 184 confirmed cases nationwide, ..

Medical facilities in Aden and Taiz have run out of COVID-19 test kits, an official in the government’s National Emergency Committee for Coronavirus told Almasdar Online on ..

Coronavirus updates from around Yemen on Wednesday include quarantine escapees in Taiz and Hadhramout, curfews in Al-Mahra, a spike in unattributable deaths in Aden and Houthi ..

Yemen’s five Presidential Protection Brigades (PPB) include thousands of armed forces responsible for protecting President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and key staff and state ..

On ِApril 21, Ahmed Tahir Ahmed Jamil’s family in Taiz lost contact with him. Half a month later, the Houthis returned his corpse, bearing evidence of torture and five bullet..

Yemen’s warring parties are taking new measures to stem the spread of coronavirus, which officials say has infected 25 people, five of whom have died as of May 6. As the ..

Following the announcement of the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Taiz governorate on Friday, Gov. Nabil Shamsan, who also heads the Taiz Emergency Committee to Confront COVID-19,..

Yemen’s Supreme National Emergency Committee for Coronavirus and the Ministry of Health on Friday accused international organizations operating in Yemen of failing to provide..

On Jan. 22, four days after a suspected Houthi missile strike killed more than 110 government soldiers at an army training camp on the outskirts of Marib city, Houthi intelligence ..

Samera al-Huri’s fellow activists were disappearing, one by one. When she asked their families, each gave the same cryptic reply: “She’s traveling.” A few ..

Yemen’s only confirmed COVID-19 patient remains stable and all known individuals he has been in contact with have been tracked, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on ..

Col. Ali Saeed Al-Kaldi, a member of the Saudi-backed initiative to free Yemen of landmines known as MASAM, was killed by a landmine in the Mawza district of Taiz governorate, ..

The Mothers of Abductees Association carried out vigils across Yemen on Saturday morning to mark the “day of the kidnapped Yemeni,” in a unified call for prisoners..

The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) said in a letter on Friday to the international community that war with government forces in the southern governorate of Abyan is..

Yemen's Health Ministry announced the opening of 27 quarantine centers in nine governorates on Thursday to cope with the potential spread of COVID-19 in the country. ..

The government’s Supreme National Emergency Committee for Coronavirus announced Friday that Yemen’s first confirmed case is in the coastal city of Al-Sheher in ..

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement that the bombing of the central prison in Taiz, allegedly carried out by the Houthis, could amount to a ..

Forces backed by the Saudi-led coalition on Yemen’s Red Sea coast seized two shipments of contraband on Monday, the fourth such seizure in 10 days, a military official told ..

The Chinese Embassy to Yemen called on all parties to the conflict to release prisoners and detainees in accordance with the prisoner exchange demands in UN Security Council ..

Houthi artillery shells killed five women and a child and injured 28 others at the Central Prison in Taiz city on Sunday, an official in the local prosecutor's office told ..

One child was killed and another wounded by a Houthi sniper on Monday morning in the city of Taiz in southwestern Yemen. The child was killed and his relative was injured while ..

The Ministry of Water and Environment announced the allocation of 1.45 billion Yemeni riyals (about $2.6 million) from the World Bank to address the urgent needs of southern and ..

Nearly 800 prisoners have been released around the country in the past ten days as part of precautionary measures taken to cope with the potential spread of the coronavirus ..

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that more than 4,600 displaced families in seven Yemeni governorates have been affected by heavy ..

As the number of coronavirus cases and associated deaths continue to rapidly mount around the world, Yemen remains one of very few countries that has yet to report a single case of..

Yemen’s minister of endowments and guidance has suspended the directors of several of the ministry’s governorate-level offices, after they failed to comply with the ..

Despite voicing support for a call by the UN Secretary-General for Yemen’s warring parties to cease hostilities in order to address the coronavirus pandemic, the Houthis ..

As of Thursday, Yemen remains one of the only countries with no reported cases of coronavirus, the pandemic that has infected over half a million people worldwide and resulted..

The Houthi-run Specialized Criminal Court in Sana'a on Monday ordered the execution of Brig. Gen. Adnan Al-Hammadi, who was assassinated last year, on charges of high ..

We are sitting at the Ivy brasserie in West London’s St. John’s Wood. Muna Luqman is dressed in an elegant headscarf and a T-shirt which reads, “Have courage and ..

The Houthis have closed most of the roads in central Yemen that link their territory with areas under the control of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, under the ..

A recently released Houthi captive died on Wednesday after succumbing to illnesses from torture he suffered in a secret prison in Ibb governorate in central Yemen.  Mustafa..

Houthi authorities in Sana'a closed the case of a murdered school teacher in the capital following tribal mediation that compelled the victim’s family to waive their ..

Every school day, Amal Al-Qobani leaves her nine-month-old child for 11 hours, travelling from her house in Harib district of Marib to the governorate capital, Marib city. The bus ..

Several Houthi gunmen, including a commander, were killed while fighting the Yemeni army and pro-secession Southern Resistance Forces (SRF) in the Al-Shuraija area between Lahj and..

Houthi fighters made significant advances on Sunday into Yemen’s northeastern Al-Jawf governorate, which sits between Saudi Arabia to the north and army-held Marib ..

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a video on Tuesday that claims to show confessions of spies within their ranks, including Saudi members. In the video released ..

About 200 cattle have died in Taiz governorate in southwest Yemen after being infected with a viral plague from livestock supplied by the UN’s Food and Agricultural ..

A Houthi soldier stormed Jihad secondary school near the border of Taiz and Ibb governorates in central Yemen on Tuesday and started firing indiscriminately, killing one student ..

The Yemeni Football Association (YFA) announced on Jan. 30, 2020 that it will be launching the first and second division football leagues in Yemen, following a freeze that has..

When freelance journalist Anwar Al-Roke left Sana’a in late 2017 for his village in the Al-Raheda area in southern Taiz, he didn’t think the return home would take him ..

Fighting between the Ghadder Al-Shar’abi and Ghazwan Al-Mekhlafi armed gangs in Taiz governorate killed one gunman and injured five others, including two children in the ..

Switzerland-based Sam Organization for Rights and Freedoms (known as SAM) released a report on Monday spotlighting the horrors of torture practiced in the Houthi-run prisons of ..

Throughout the latter halfof January, clashes between government and Houthi forces have raged across frontlines between Houthi-controlled Sana’a city and ..

The Houthis fired mortar shells on civilian homes in Al-Matinah village in southern Hodeidah governorate on Monday, killing a woman and injuring three children, according to the ..