President Joe Biden will announce an end Thursday to U.S. support for a grinding five-year Saudi-led military offensive in Yemen that has deepened human suffering in the Arabian peninsula’s poorest country, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said. Biden sees the United States “playing a more active and engaged role” to end the war through diplomacy, […]

ADEN—At least 20 people were killed and dozens wounded in an attack on Yemen’s Aden airport on Wednesday moments after a plane landed carrying a newly formed Saudi-backed cabinet for government-held parts of Yemen. Hours after the attack, a second explosion was heard around Aden’s Maasheq presidential palace where the cabinet members including Prime Minister […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—An oil tanker off Saudi Arabia’s port city of Jiddah suffered an explosion early Monday after being hit by “an external source,” a shipping company said, suggesting another vessel has come under attack off the kingdom amid its yearslong war in Yemen. The apparent attack on the Singapore-flagged BW Rhine, which had […]

WASHINGTON—An American humanitarian worker and a U.S. businessman held captive by Iranian-backed terrorists in Yemen were released on Wednesday in the Middle Eastern country’s capital, President Donald Trump’s national security adviser said. He said another American detained in Yemen had died in captivity. The two Americans released by the Houthis and the remains of Bilal […]

MARIB, Yemen—In Yemen’s gas-rich region of Marib, fighters loyal to the Saudi-backed government recited Koranic verses before launching a hail of mortar and machine-gun fire toward rocky mountains in a desperate bid to push back Houthi forces. The commanding officer peered through his binoculars at the dust and plumes of black smoke thrown up by […]

CAIRO—Saudi-led coalition intercepted and destroyed drones launched by Iran-aligned Yemen’s Houthis towards “civilian targets” in Saudi cities of Abha and Khamis Mushait, state news agency spa said early Friday, citing the coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki. The attack comes after Yemen’s warring parties had welcomed a U.N. call for an immediate truce on Thursday to […]

A small instrument inside the drones that targeted the heart of Saudi's oil industry and those in the arsenal of Yemen's Houthi rebels match components.

DUBAI—Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement accused the Saudi-led coalition of carrying out retaliatory airstrikes on Feb. 15 that killed at least 30 people, including civilians, in the latest flare-up of a five-year war. The United Nations office in Yemen said preliminary field reports indicated that “as many as 31 civilians were killed and 12 others injured […]

Saudi air defenses intercepted two Houthi drones, one of them targeting a residential area in the southern city of Abha, the Saudi press agency said on Tuesday, citing the Saudi-led coalition. Al Masirah TV, citing a military spokesman, said on Monday the Iran-backed Houthis launched drone attacks on Abha airport. The Houthis have launched several strikes […]

CAIRO—Yemen’s warring parties will meet in Sweden this week for another attempt at talks aimed at halting their catastrophic 3-year-old war, but there are few incentives for major compromises, and the focus is likely to be on firming up a shaky de-escalation. U.N. officials say they don’t expect rapid progress toward a political settlement, but […]

The U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense called for the cessation of hostilities in Yemen and for talks between opposing forces in a civil war that has raged on for over three years. “It is time to end this conflict, replace conflict with compromise, and allow the Yemeni people to heal through peace and reconstruction,” […]

DUBAI—Dubai International Airport said on Sept. 30 it was operating as normal following a news report Yemen’s armed Houthi movement had launched a drone attack against the airport. “With regards to reports by questionable sources this morning, Dubai Airports can confirm that Dubai International (DXB) is operating as normal without any interruption,” said an airport […]

Arab coalition troops stormed the airport in Yemen’s main port Hodeidah on Tuesday and captured large areas of the compound in battles with Iran-aligned Houthis, according to a Yemeni military source, the UAE news agency, and local residents. Residents of the strategic Red Sea city said battles were also raging on the coastal road leading to […]

The battle for the western Yemeni port of Hodeidah could be an important milestone in the three-year civil war. But analysts say the conflict is so complex that even a decisive outcome there might not bring peace. Why is Yemen so divided? Yemen’s internal splits have festered for years. North and south Yemen united into […]

The battle for the port of Hodeidah could become a turning point in Yemen’s civil war. The following is a timeline of the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country’s slide into violence and how the conflict has developed. 1990. Unification of north and south Yemen to form a single state under president Ali Abdullah Saleh. 1994. Civil […]

WASHINGTON—The United States on Thursday presented for the first time pieces of what it said were Iranian weapons supplied to the Iran-aligned Houthi militia in Yemen, describing it as conclusive evidence that Tehran was violating U.N. resolutions. The arms included charred remnants of what the Pentagon said was an Iranian-made short-range ballistic missile fired from […]

Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in fighting with the Iran-aligned Houthi militia raging in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television said on Monday, quoting sources in Saleh’s party. Al Arabiya quoted a source in Saleh’s General Peoples Congress as saying he was killed by sniper bullets. A Houthi video distributed on […]

ADEN—Aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition bombed Houthi positions in Sanaa overnight on Sunday, residents and local media said, aiming to shore up supporters of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh as they battle the Iran-aligned Houthi group. Saleh announced on Saturday he was ready to turn a “new page” in ties with the Saudi-led coalition […]

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer followed the leads of President Trump and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn when he said that Iran is “on notice” during his Thursday briefing to the press. Flynn, in a statement on Wednesday night, said: “These are just the latest of a series of incidents in the past six months […]

CAIRO—A Saudi-led coalition on Saturday blamed “wrong information” for the bombing last weekend of a packed funeral hall in the rebel-held Yemeni capital that killed at least 140 people and wounded some 600. The coalition’s Joint Incidents Assessment Team, or JIAT, said a “party” affiliated to Yemen’s General Chief of Staff headquarters had provided intelligence […]

WASHINGTON— U.S.-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles destroyed three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea Coast early Thursday, officials said, a retaliatory action that followed two incidents this week in which missile...

Two missiles fired from rebel-held territory in Yemen landed near an American destroyer in the Red Sea, the U.S. Navy said Monday, the second such launch targeting ships in the crucial international waterway in recent days. The missile launches Sunday came as a ballistic missile fired from Yemen apparently targeted a Saudi air base near […]

Members of Congress are looking to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia as the kingdom wages an air campaign in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians. Since Saudi Arabia launched its war against Houthi rebels in Yemen in March last year, there have been nearly 9,000 casualties including 3,218 civilians killed, according to estimates by the U.N. […]

SANAA, Yemen— A U.N.-brokered cease-fire was mostly holding across war-torn Yemen on Monday except in the besieged city of Taiz where shelling killed at least one person and wounded five, according to residents.There were also sporadic exchanges of g...

The leader of the Shiite rebels who control Yemen’s capital and seized the presidential palace on Tuesday warned of a further escalation if President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi stands in the way of political reform. In a lengthy speech aired by the group’s TV network, Abdel-Malek al-Houthi said “all options are open” and that escalation […]

SANAA, Yemen—Thousands of people have demonstrated in Yemen’s capital to demand both the ouster of Shiite Houthi rebels who control the city as well as the country’s beleaguered president. The demonstrations Saturday were the first of their kind demanding President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi step down since he took over the presidency after a popular […]

A month after the Houthi conquest of Sana, Yemen’s new political landscape remains uncharted. In Sana, the Houthi leadership is trying to coax Yemen’s political elite into a coalition government, while south of Sana, Houthi forces are pressing to consolidate their military power on the ground. Both efforts are encountering considerable resistance, but the Houthis may prevail still.

Yemen's Shiite rebels pushing to seize more territory across the country were locked in fierce battles with al-Qaeda militants on Wednesday in a province south of the capital, Sanaa, security officials said.

Shiite rebels who overran Yemen's capital last month won another stunning victory Tuesday, capturing a key port on the Red Sea in a move that underlined their apparent intention to create a mini-state in the mostly chaotic and lawless Arab country.

Yemen's Shiite rebels rejected President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's choice of a new prime minister on Tuesday, threatening to derail a U.N.-brokered peace deal with the armed group that has controlled the capital for weeks.