‘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. Al Jazeera · Mar 22, 2025
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. Al Jazeera · Jun 26, 2024
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? Al Jazeera · Feb 4, 2024
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 Al Jazeera · Jan 6, 2024
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 · Apr 17, 2023
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 · Apr 14, 2023
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. Reuters · Feb 26, 2023
UN Yemen envoy indicates new truce may be agreed Despite a six-month UN-brokered truce ending in October, fighting has not escalated. Al Jazeera · Jan 17, 2023
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 · Nov 10, 2022
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 · Oct 6, 2022
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 · Aug 2, 2022
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 · Jun 27, 2022
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. Reuters · Jun 23, 2022
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. Reuters · May 16, 2022
Al Jazeera · May 16, 2022 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 · Apr 22, 2022 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 · Apr 2, 2022 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.
Reuters · Mar 25, 2022 '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.
Reuters · Mar 17, 2022 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.
Reuters · Mar 7, 2022 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.
Reuters · Mar 2, 2022 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 · Feb 2, 2022 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 · Jan 23, 2022 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 · Jan 19, 2022 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 · Jan 18, 2022 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.