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Yemeni war casualties lift anti-Huthi placards during the visit of the Deputy Head of the UN Mission to Support the Hodeida Agreement Daniela Crosslake (unseen) to a hospital in Hays, Yemen on 11 November 2020. Picture: AFP

Yemeni clashes

Yemen: the seven-year war with no peace in sight

By AFP

Despite efforts to halt fighting, there is no end in sight to a conflict that has put millions on the brink of famine.

  • Syrian Maya Merhi (L) stands with her friends in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp of Serjilla in northwestern Syria next to Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, on 9 December 2018. Picture: AFP

    ANALYSIS: Will coronavirus slow the world's conflicts or intensify them?

    In recent days, some 30 Malian soldiers were killed in an attack in northern Mali blamed on jihadists, without drawing any sharp reaction from the Security Council.

    874 days ago
  • US President Donald Trump. Picture: AFP

    Trump vetoes bill to end US support for Saudi-led Yemen war

    The resolution was a harsh bipartisan rebuke to Trump that took the historic step of curtailing a president's war-making powers - a step he condemned in a statement announcing his veto.

    1214 days ago
  • A Yemeni mother holds her malnourished child as they wait for treatments in a medical centre in the village of Al Mutaynah, in the Tuhayta province, western Yemen, in November 2018. Picture: AFP.

    'Food is a weapon': Fight over Yemen granary tests truce

    The site, on Hodeida's eastern edges, was rigged heavily with mines when it slipped from Huthi control in November.

    1293 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.

    Yemenis divided by war share hope for peace

    For residents of the impoverished country, there is little escape from the daily propaganda and fiery speeches of warring parties urging their supporters to fight "the enemy".

    1365 days ago
  • Humanitarian aid efforts have reached over five million people in Yemen since January 2016. Picture: United Nations

    Yemen humanitarian situation likely to worsen with Saleh death: Mattis

    Saleh was killed in a roadside attack on Monday after switching sides in Yemen’s civil war, abandoning his Iran-aligned Houthi allies in favour of a Saudi-led coalition.

    1711 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke billows following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition on the headquarters of the Special Security Forces, formerly known as the Central Security, on May 27, 2015, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Picture: AFP.

    Saudi-led raid kills 60 at Yemen security site, prison

    The prison held 84 inmates when it was struck three times late on Saturday.

    2113 days ago
  • Yemenis inspect the site of a suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group on 269 August 2016 at an army recruitment centre in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. Yemeni security officials told AFP that the attacker drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a gathering of army recruits at a school in northern Aden, killing at least 60. Picture: AFP

    Coalition raids kill 9 in central Yemen: medical sources, residents

    Nine people were also wounded in the attack on several areas of the city and its outskirts.

    2148 days ago
  • Yemenis inspect the site of a suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group on 269 August 2016 at an army recruitment centre in the southern Yemeni city of Aden. Yemeni security officials told AFP that the attacker drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a gathering of army recruits at a school in northern Aden, killing at least 60. Picture: AFP

    Health ministry: Suicide bomber kills 54 in Yemen attack

    At least 67 other people were wounded in the attack in the city’s Mansoura district.

    2175 days ago
  • A Yemeni child inspects the rubble of a house in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa on 11 August 2016, after it was reportedly hit by a Saudi-led coalition air strike. Picture: AFP

    Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen’s capital wound six

    Air strikes hit a presidential compound and military base in Sanaa early Friday and wounded six farmers.

    2192 days ago
  • Smoke billows following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition on the headquarters of the Special Security Forces, formerly known as the Central Security, on May 27, 2015, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Picture: AFP.

    Warring Yemen sides begin truce, warn against violations

    A halt in fighting from Sunday midnight precedes peace talks set to begin on 18 April in Kuwait.

    2315 days ago
  • Conflict-affected girls receive food aid from a local relief group in Sana’a, Yemen, 04 March 2016. Picture: EPA/Yahya Arhab.

    Yemen war generates widespread suffering but few refugees

    Yemen’s civil war intensified about a year ago when a Saudi-led Arab coalition intervened with air strikes.

    2348 days ago
  • File picture of Jihad training camps. Picture: AFP

    Al-Qaeda mourns death of top commander in Yemen

    Jalal Baleedi was killed by a drone strike as he was travelling in a car with two others in coastal Abyan.

    2380 days ago
  • FILE: Yemenis inspect the damage of a building hit by a rocket during clashes between Shiite Huthi rebels and fighters from the Popular Resistance Committees, loyal to Yemen's fugitive President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi on 21 October 2015. Picture: AFP.

    UN sees progress in Yemen talks but urgent need for full ceasefire

    A ceasefire, which was due to end later this week, had been extended for another seven days.

    2427 days ago
  • FILE: A screebgran picture shows people carrying an injured child in Yemen after Saudi-led air strikes in an ongoing war between the two countries.

    Yemen ceasefire to begin today as UN talks open

    Two earlier UN attempts at talks failed and the accompanying ceasefires quickly unraveled.

    2433 days ago
  • Yemenis inspect the damage of a building hit by a rocket during clashes between Shiite Huthi rebels and fighters from the Popular Resistance Committees, loyal to Yemen's fugitive President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, in the third city of Taez, on October 21, 2015. At least 22 civilians were killed and several others wounded as suspected rebel rockets crashed into the central Yemeni city of Taiz, according to medics and military officials. Picture: AFP.

    Heavy fighting breaks out in Yemen’s Taiz city, ICRC says situation is ‘dire’

    Taiz has suffered huge destruction since becoming a main battleground in the conflict.

    2487 days ago
  • FILE: Yemeni supporters of the separatist Southern Movement gets into position during clashes with Shiite Huthi rebels on 4 April, 2015 in the Mansura district of the the southern Yemeni port city of Aden. Picture: AFP

    Yemen forces seize Aden airport in sudden advance

    The airport and some city districts were captured from Houthi militia fighters on Tuesday.

    2586 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke billows following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition on the headquarters of the Special Security Forces, formerly known as the Central Security, on May 27, 2015, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Picture: AFP.

    Houthi attack sets refinery ablaze in Yemen

    The mortar barrage hit three full storage tanks, in an incident sure to add to the fuel crisis.

    2587 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke billows following an air-strike by the Saudi-led coalition on the headquarters of the Special Security Forces, formerly known as the Central Security, on May 27, 2015, in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Picture: AFP.

    Saudi planes strike Yemen's capital ahead of talks

    The talks hosted by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are aimed at finding a political solution.

    2616 days ago
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