A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons such as tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States. In August, the United States formally demanded the snapback of all UN sanctions on Iran that were in […]

ADEN—Southern separatists have seized control of Yemen’s island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea, deposing its governor and driving out forces of the Saudi-backed government which condemned the action as coup. The Southern Transitional Council (STC) declared self rule in the south in April, complicating U.N. efforts to forge a permanent ceasefire in a war […]

WASHINGTON—A Navy warship has seized a “significant cache” of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen, U.S. officials said Wednesday, marking the first time that such sophisticated components have been taken en route to the war there. The seizure from a small boat by the U.S. Navy and a U.S. Coast Guard […]

President Donald Trump said he had “no intention” of meeting with Iran at the upcoming U.N. meetings, as the United States is set to deploy additional troops and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to the Pentagon. The upcoming deployment announced Sept. 20 comes after Trump put off any immediate […]

President Donald Trump on Sept. 16 questioned Iran’s denial of involvement in the recent drone attacks on oil facilities that knocked down half of Saudi Arabia’s daily production. He compared it to an earlier claim Iran made after shooting down an American drone in June. “Remember when Iran shot down a drone, saying knowingly that […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched drone attacks on the world’s largest oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia and a major oil field on Sept. 14, sparking huge fires and halting about half of the supplies from the world’s largest exporter of oil. The attacks were the latest of many drone assaults on the […]

SANAA, Yemen—Yemeni separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates began withdrawing Aug. 11 from positions they seized from the internationally-recognized government in the southern port city of Aden. Both the southern separatists and the government forces are ostensibly allies in the Saudi-led military coalition that’s been battling the Houthi rebels in northern Yemen since 2015. […]

President Donald Trump vetoed a congressional resolution on April 16 that aimed to end U.S. involvement in the civil war in Yemen, the White House said. Trump wrote to the Senate that the joint resolution, dubbed S.J. Res. 7, was “an unnecessary, dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities.” He said the legislation—a War Powers Resolution […]

ADEN—Explosions rocked Yemen’s Red Sea city of Hodeidah for a second day on Dec. 19 despite a U.N.-mediated ceasefire meant to pave the way for peace negotiations to end nearly four years of war. The United Nations brokered the truce deal as part of confidence-building measures at peace talks last week in Sweden to avert […]

RIMBO, Sweden—Yemen’s warring parties agreed on Dec. 13 to cease fighting for the Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah and withdraw their troops, the first significant breakthrough for U.N.-led peace efforts in five years of conflict. At the close of a week of talks in Sweden, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a framework for political negotiations […]

The Saudi government said it has suspended oil shipments through the Red Sea after Yemen-based, Iran-aligned Houthi rebels attacked Saudi oil tankers. Two very large crude carriers, which can each carry 2 million barrels of oil, operated by the Saudi National Shipping Company “were attacked by terrorist Houthi militia this morning in the Red Sea. […]

DUBAI—Yemeni Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman was suspended from an Islamist party allied with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after she accused the Saudi-led coalition that backs him in the country’s civil war of acting as occupiers. Karman won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her role in Arab Spring protests that ousted authoritarian President Ali […]

DUBAI—Warplanes attacked a checkpoint outside the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing five civilians in a taxi and two armed personnel manning the site, witnesses said. The bombing in the Masajed district about 10 km (six miles) west of Sanaa caused the car to careen into a nearby gas station, setting it ablaze and complicating […]

SANAA, Yemen—Sitting by her son’s hospital bed, Houdaid Masbah looks at her 5-year-old boy’s skeletal body and sunken cheeks, helplessness engulfing her like a thick cloud—a desperation she shares with many other mothers in Hodeidah. Even before the war, Hodeidah was one of the poorest cities in Yemen, the Arab world’s most impoverished nation. Now, […]

As war continues to rage uninterrupted in Yemen, a humanitarian pause is badly needed as the country spirals down to chaos, leaving the majority of the population in urgent need of medical care.

Al-Qaida's Yemeni branch seized another town on Monday, setting up checkpoints at its entrances and besieging government buildings before dawn after days of fighting with southern separatists, officials said.

The lifeless body of Yemen's top Salafi cleric in the southern port city of Aden was found disfigured on Sunday hours after he was abducted following an anti-extremism sermon, security officials told The Associated Press.

SANAA, Yemen—Yemen’s President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi arrived in the southern port city of Aden Tuesday following nearly six months of exile in Saudi Arabia, airport officials and a statement from his office said. Hadi, who arrived in Aden under tight security, fled Yemen by sea in March as Shiite Houthi rebels and their allies […]

SANAA, Yemen— Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels have released six foreign hostages, including two Americans, and flown them to the Gulf country of Oman, which helped negotiate their release, officials said Sunday.Oman's Foreign Ministry said two Americans...

SANAA, Yemen— An Islamic State-claimed suicide bomber and a subsequent car bombing killed at least 20 people Wednesday at a mosque in Yemen's rebel-held capital, Sanaa, amid the country's raging civil war, officials said.The suicide bomber blew himse...

SANAA, Yemen— Yemen's warring factions on Sunday braced for a key battle in a central province, where victory could allow pro-government forces to move rapidly north into the heartland of the country's Shiite rebels.Security officials from both sides...

CAIRO— The Yemeni government is not negotiating with Shiite Houthi rebels who control the capital and much of the north, and demands that they lay down their arms, Foreign Minister Riad Yassin said Thursday."The Houthis and (former President Ali Abdu...

Al-Qaida militants have seized control of key areas in and around the port city of Aden, high-ranking security officials said Saturday.Fighters took Tawahi district, home to a presidential palace and Aden's main port, and were patrollin...

The success or failure of the policies of Saudi Arabia’s new king would have profound effects not just on the Middle East but on the international scene.

SANAA, Yemen—Saudi-led airstrikes hit a convoy of civilians fleeing fighting in southern Yemen early Wednesday, killing at least 31 people in an attack among the deadliest of the 3-month-old air campaign, medics said. The two airstrikes hit a convoy of civilian vehicles fleeing north from the southern city of Aden, which has seen intense fighting. […]

Hisham Yahya, 13, is an eager student. As we sat in the large, empty yard of his school in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, with weapon debris scattered about, he said he missed going to class. “I just sit at home, it is so boring, and we have no electricity, nothing,” he said. “I want to go […]

Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world, bereft of resources, fractured by tribal divisions and religious sectarianism, and plagued by civil war. And yet this small country tucked into the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula is shattering old alliances and spurring new and surprising ones. As Saudi Arabia continues its air assault on […]

Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa on Tuesday night, according to preliminary reports.

SANAA, Yemen—The Yemeni government submitted its resignation on Thursday amid a heated standoff between powerful Shiite rebels who control the capital and the embattled US-backed president, who has been held “captive” in his house for the past two days. Prime Minister Khaled Bahah’s resignation came as the U.N. envoy to the Arab world’s poorest country met […]

SANAA, Yemen—Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebels’ checkpoint and a house south of the Yemeni capital Tuesday as a school bus was traveling nearby,killing at least 26 people including at least 16 primary school students, according to the Yemeni government, rebels and witnesses. Witnesses said that the first car was […]