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‘Every shot fired’: Are Yemen’s Houthis a proxy force for Iran?

The Houthis heavily align with Iran, but they have increasingly tried to showcase their autonomy.

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Hezbollah’s ‘axis of resistance’ allies waiting in reserve to fight Israel

Analysts believe that an expanded conflict could encourage foreign fighters to support Hezbollah and fight Israel.

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Do Yemen’s Houthis have their eye on Marib?

The Houthis’ stance in support of Palestine is gaining accolades, could they also be looking at a domestic win?

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Will the Houthi Red Sea attacks destabilise Yemen’s fragile peace?

The strikes have helped the Yemeni group gain recruits – and a domestic buildup of might could strain ceasefire attempts

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Saudi unilaterally releases detainees to Yemen amid peace push

Saudi Arabia on Monday released 104 detainees to Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross and a Saudi-led coalition said, in a unilateral move that follows simultaneous detainee exchanges between Yemen's warring parties.

Reuters

Yemen prisoner exchange begins - ICRC

The release and swap of nearly 900 detainees by the two sides in Yemen's conflict began on Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, a significant confidence building measure amid peace talks between Saudi envoys and the Houthi group.

Reuters

Yemen's Hodeidah receives first ship carrying general cargo in years amid truce push

A container ship carrying general commercial goods docked at Yemen's main port of Hodeidah for the first time since at least 2016 on Saturday as parties in Yemen's eight-year war are in talks to reinstate an expired U.N.-brokered truce deal.

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UN Yemen envoy indicates new truce may be agreed

Despite a six-month UN-brokered truce ending in October, fighting has not escalated.

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In Yemen, farmers choose narcotic over other crops, exacerbating climate woes

Farmers are draining groundwater around Yemen's capital and removing soil to cultivate the narcotic green leaf qat that dominates life in the country, threatening to exhaust precious resources in the climate-vulnerable nation.

Reuters

In an empty kitchen, Yemeni family struggles with hunger

In a bare kitchen in her house in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Umm Zakaria al-Sharaabi prepares for a daily challenge - creating a meal out of virtually nothing to feed the 18 people in her extended family.

Reuters

Explainer-With Yemen truce renewed, what are the prospects of peace?

Yemen's warring parties have agreed to extend a U.N.-brokered truce for another two months in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and spawned a major humanitarian crisis.

Reuters

WFP cuts Yemen food rations further due to funding gap, inflation

The World Food Programme said it has further reduced rations in Yemen, where millions face hunger, due to critical funding gaps, global inflation and knock-on effects of the Ukraine conflict.

Reuters

Lick of paint for Yemen's historic Sanaa as truce holds

Yemeni architect Zaid al-Kuhlani watched his workers dab white paint around stained glass windows from scaffolds, part of a large-scale restoration effort of UNESCO-listed historic Old Sanaa that has endured years of bombings during the war.

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First commercial flight takes off from Sanaa, raising Yemen peace prospects

Yemen's national airline operated on Monday its first commercial flight in years from the capital Sanaa, raising hopes for renewal of a U.N.-brokered truce in the seven-year-old conflict that has pitted a Saudi-led coalition against the Iran-aligned Houthis and put Middle East security in peril.

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First commercial flight in 6 years leaves Yemen’s capital Sanaa

Flight is part of UN-brokered 60-day truce between internationally-recognised government and Houthi rebels.

Reuters

Aid groups push to feed Yemen's hungry millions during Ramadan ceasefire

A two-month ceasefire has given aid groups a chance to step up aid to Yemen's hungry millions, but malnutrition ravaging children is projected to worsen if fighting returns or humanitarian funding does not pick up.

Reuters

Truce offers glimmer of hope to Yemenis battered by seven-year war

Yemenis welcomed a nationwide U.N.-brokered ceasefire due to come into effect on Saturday evening as a glimmer of hope in a country ravaged by a seven-year conflict that has forced millions into hunger, poverty and homelessness.

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'We are lost': Yemenis face eighth year of struggle as war grinds on

Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger.

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Yemen's war robs many children of lifesaving heart surgery, doctors say

While waiting for a sponsor to pay for congenital heart defect surgery, gangrene caused by the untreated ailment ate away at 16-year-old Zamzam Hizam's foot.

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Scramble for transport as Yemen fuel shortage worsens

Yemenis are riding on the roof or hanging out the sides of taxi vans as severe fuel shortages in the capital Sanaa and other Houthi-held areas raise demand for public transportation, with people queuing for days to fill the tanks of their cars.

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Ukraine conflict could hit food supplies, worsening Yemen hunger crisis

Potential disruption to global wheat supplies after Russia's invasion of Ukraine is raising concerns that war-torn Yemen's hunger crisis and food price inflation could deepen, with some Yemenis rushing to buy flour.

Reuters

Yemenis, strapped for cash, yearn for their own honey

Idrees al-Haddad used to buy 7 kilogram tubs of Yemen's world-famous honey when he went shopping. Today he can only afford 1kg.

Reuters

Yemenis struggle without internet for third day after air strikes

Most of Yemen faced a third day without internet on Sunday after air strikes on the Red Sea city of Hodeidah, the main landing point for the country's undersea web connection, damaged its telecoms infrastructure.

Reuters

Yemeni family lives in abandoned shop as war, hunger drags on

Ismail Hassan, a Yemeni father of ten, houses his family in an abandoned shop and scavenges recyclable items from rubbish bins to feed them.

Reuters

Around 20 killed in deadliest coalition strikes on Yemen's Sanaa since 2019

Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Houthi group on the capital Sanaa killed at least 20 people overnight, including civilians, Houthi media and residents said, in one of its deadliest attacks since 2019.

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