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  • FILE: Yemeni pro-government forces gather on the eastern outskirts of Hodeida as they continue to battle for the control of the city from Huthi rebels on 9 November 2018. Picture: AFP

    150 killed in battle for Yemen's Hodeida as global alarm grows

    A military source in the pro-government coalition said the insurgents had pushed back a large-scale assault aimed at moving towards the port, under rebel control since 2014.

    1287 days ago
  • Yemeni pro-government forces gather on the eastern outskirts of Hodeida as they continue to battle for the control of the city from Huthi rebels on 9 November 2018. Picture: AFP

    149 killed as Yemen rebels hold back loyalists in Hodeida

    Residents and government military sources have reported rebel snipers stationed on rooftops in civilian streets in eastern Hodeida, a few miles from the port on the western edge of the city.

    1287 days ago
  • FILE: This picture taken on 24 October 2018 shows fire near the wreckage of a car reportedly destroyed in an air strike in Yemen's Huthi-held Red Sea port of Hodeida. Picture: AFP

    At least 61 killed in clashes in Yemen's Hodeida

    Medics in the Red Sea city reported 43 Huthi rebels and nine loyalists killed in clashes over the past 24 hours.

    1288 days ago
  • Maps showing famine risk and internal displacement in Yemen. Picture: AFP

    Yemen famine crisis

    Maps showing famine risk and internal displacement in Yemen.

    1291 days ago
  • A Yemeni child suffering from a diphtheria infection receives treatment at a hospital in the capital Sanaa, on 31 October 2018. Yemen's brutal conflict has since 2015 left some 10,000 people dead and has created what the UN has dubbed the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Picture: AFP

    Fears for civilians rise as clashes rattle Yemen port city

    Five days of battles between Iran-linked Huthi rebels and the army have left more than 150 combatants dead in the Red Sea province of Hodeida.

    1293 days ago
  • FILE: This picture taken on 24 October 2018 shows fire near the wreckage of a car reportedly destroyed in an air strike in Yemen's Huthi-held Red Sea port of Hodeida. Picture: AFP

    Yemeni civilians trapped by Hodeidah fighting, aid groups say

    The alliance has massed thousands of Yemeni troops in recent days near the heavily defended port, but a source in the coalition told Reuters there were no immediate plans for an assault.

    1294 days ago
  • Yemeni boy Ghazi Ali bin Ali, 10, suffering from severe malnutrition lies on a bed at a hospital in Jabal Habashi on the outskirts of the city of Taiz, on 30 October 2018. Picture: AFP.

    UN: War-torn Yemen ‘living hell’ for children

    According to Unicef, 1.8 million Yemeni children under the age of five suffer from acute malnutrition, and the lives of 400,000 severely affected children are under threat.

    1295 days ago
  • Yemenis inspect the damage caused by a Saudi-led air strike on a cholera treatment centre supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Abs region of Yemen on 11 June 2018. Picture: AFP.

    UN aims to re-launch Yemen peace talks 'within a month'

    UN envoy Martin Griffiths welcomed calls for an immediate resumption of talks and a ceasefire in Yemen.

    1299 days ago
  • FILE: Yemenis inspect the damage caused by a Saudi-led air strike on a cholera treatment centre supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Abs region of Yemen on 11 June 2018.

    UN warns of worsening hunger crisis in Yemen

    Over eight million people are already considered to be on the brink of famine in Yemen, according to the World Food Programme.

    1314 days ago
  • Turkey flag. Picture: Supplied

    Turkey says will search consulate where Saudi journalist vanished

    Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan asked Saudi Arabia on Monday to prove its assertion that Khashoggi left the consulate.

    1321 days ago
  • Medics treat a Yemeni child who was injured in a reported air strike at an emergency clinic in the Iran-backed Huthi rebels' stronghold province of Saada on 8 August 2018. Picture: AFP

    5.2 million children at famine risk in Yemen: charity

    Disruption to supplies coming through the embattled Red Sea port of Hodeida could 'cause starvation on an unprecedented scale,' the British based NGO said in a new report.

    1342 days ago
  • A screebgran picture shows people carrying an injured child in Yemen after Saudi-led air strikes in an ongoing war between the two countries.

    Saudi-led air strike kills 4 at Yemen radio station, UN intensifies diplomacy

    The attack took place as UN officials engaged in shuttle diplomacy to arrange a resumption of peace talks in the four-year-old.

    1344 days ago
  • FILE: Yemenis inspect the damage caused by a Saudi-led air strike on a cholera treatment centre supported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in the Abs region of Yemen on 11 June 2018. Picture: AFP

    Yemen rebels refuse to join Geneva talks until conditions met

    The conditions include the transport of wounded rebels to Oman and the repatriation of rebels who have already received treatment there and a guarantee that the Huthi delegation would be allowed to return to the rebel-held capital Sanaa after the talks.

    1354 days ago
  • A Yemeni man carries gas cylinders after filling them up amid increasing shortages in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, on 2 September, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Protests over Yemen's weakening currency paralyse Aden

    Yemen is one of the poorest Arab countries and the war has pushed it toward humanitarian collapse as hunger and disease spread.

    1358 days ago
  • Yemeni children vent anger against Riyadh and Washington on August 13, 2018 as they take part in a mass funeral in the northern Yemeni city of Saada, a stronghold of the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, for children killed in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition last week. Picture: AFP.

    Yemen buries children killed by air strike, Riyadh insists raid 'legitimate'

    At least 40 children were killed in Thursday’s raid which hit the bus as it drove through a market of Dahyan, a town in Saada, the armed Houthi group said.

    1378 days ago
  • Yemenis dig graves for children who were killed when their bus was hit during a Saudi-led coalition air strike, that targeted the Dahyan market the previous day in the Houthi rebels' stronghold province of Saada on 10 August 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Saudi-led coalition announces probe into deadly Yemen air raid

    The strike by the Western-backed alliance, in which at least 40 children are said to have been killed, outraged human rights groups and was strongly condemned by UN officials.

    1381 days ago
  • Medics treat a Yemeni child who was injured in a reported air strike at an emergency clinic in the Iran-backed Huthi rebels' stronghold province of Saada on 8 August 2018. Picture: AFP

    Yemen's Houthis welcome UN call for investigation into air strikes

    UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday condemned the air strike and called for an 'independent and prompt investigation,' his spokesman said.

    1381 days ago
  • A man is transported to a hospital after he was wounded in a reported air strike on the Iran-backed Huthi rebels' stronghold province of Saada on 9 August, 2018. Picture: AFP

    Saudi air strikes in Yemen described as 'grotesque'

    The ICRC said a strike hit the bus driving children in Dahyan market, in northern Saada.

    1382 days ago
  • Medics treat a Yemeni child who was injured in a reported air strike at an emergency clinic in the Iran-backed Huthi rebels' stronghold province of Saada on 8 August 2018. Picture: AFP

    Dozens killed, including children, in Yemen air strikes

    The Western-backed alliance fighting the Iranian-aligned Houthi group in Yemen accused the Houthis of using children as human shields.

    1382 days ago
  • File: Army officers allied with the Houthis attend a rally to mark three years of war on the country, in the capital Sanaa on 26 March 2018. Picture: AFP

    Fighting moves closer to centre of Yemen's main port city

    The alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates launched its assault on the heavily defended Red Sea city on 12 June to try to weaken the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

    1428 days ago
  • This image grab taken from a video shows Yemeni pro-government forces gathering at the south of Hodeida airport, in Yemen's Hodeida province on 15 June 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Arab alliance close to capturing Hodeidah airport, Yemen military says

    Aly Omar said he and his family spent three days trapped in the Manzar neighbourhood abutting the airport as fighting raged all around them.

    1436 days ago
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