Yemen: Houthis seize key port of Mocha

Houthi forces in Yemen are making a concerted drive to take over the country’s Red Sea coast fully, claiming control of the key port of Mocha in the most serious wave of fighting with the Saudi-backed government in years, bringing the Iran-aligned Read More …

Yemen: At least five children killed in blast in Taiz

At least five children in southwestern Yemen have died after an explosive device detonated in a residential area where they were playing football, rights groups and witnesses said. On Saturday, the Yemen Center for Human Rights and another rights group Read More …

Yemen: Children ‘badly hurt by landmine which exploded as one played with it’

Three children and a woman have been badly hurt in a landmine explosion in Yemen, medical officials said. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said the mine blew up on Thursday when one of the children began playing with the device. The group, Read More …

Yemen: 2 killed in IED explosion in Taiz province

At least two people were killed and 11 others injured when an explosion struck a civilian bus in Yemen’s southwestern province of Taiz on Sunday, a security official told Xinhua. “An explosion caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) targeted Read More …

Yemen gov’t says Houthis hit Red Sea aid port

Yemeni officials have said the country’s Houthi rebels have fired a ballistic missile and five explosive-laden drones at a Red Sea port, destroying humanitarian aid warehouses. The foreign ministry of the internationally recognised government said in a statement on Saturday Read More …