Yemen Politics News

IsraelNN.com) Somali pirates seized a Greek-owned cargo ship as it sailed through the Gulf of Aden near Yemen, maritime control authorities in Kenya said.

A Japanese engineer kidnapped near Sanaa is still being held by Yemeni tribesmen, a mediator said on Wednesday, while Japan’s prime minister expressed hope the 63-year-old’s release was “close.Sheikh Abdel-Jalil, a tribal leader in Arhab, northeast of Sanaa where the...

Tribesmen released a Japanese engineer they had abducted in an area northeast of the capital, Sana, a provincial official said Tuesday. “He is now with the mediators; he will be in the capital within two hours,” the official told Reuters....

The Japanese kidnapped by an armed group in Arhab last Sunday was released and is in a good condition and in the way to the capital, said top security sources in Sana'a governorate who spoke in the condition of being...

Around 150 al-Houthi rebels were killed last Sunday when they the attacked the government take over the Republican Mansion in Sa'adah, said local sources. Sources added that 70 other al-Houthi rebels surrendered in the same day. This took place early...

Fighter jets began the bombing campaign across the border on Wednesday afternoon after a border guard was killed and 11 wounded by gunmen who had crossed from Yemen, said the adviser, who did not want to be identified. There was...

Saudi officials say their forces struck after Shia rebels attacked a patrol in the Asir region, killing one soldier. Three more soldiers died in the fighting, officials say, but they deny rebel claims that others were captured. The rebels, known...

Saudi Arabia yesterday imposed a naval blockade on the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen to combat Shiite rebels along its border, an adviser to the government said, in the latest escalation of fighting in the southern Arabian peninsula. The...

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and its partners have reached almost 100,000 displaced Yemenis with food assistance in four northern governorates since August when a new round of fighting erupted between government troops and rebel forces, stated a...

Lebanon — As clashes continued Friday between the Saudi military and Yemeni rebels on the remote border between the two countries, both sides claimed to have inflicted casualties and captured enemy soldiers. The conflict started earlier this week when the...