Yemen Travel News

Three Saudi soldiers were killed and an unspecified number wounded as they fought to stop new cross-border raids by Yemeni rebels, the Saudi-owned daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on its website on Sunday. It said Saudi forces foiled attempts by the...

Shia rebels in northern Yemen accused Saudi forces of launching a major cross-border ground and air attack on Monday, a day after an alleged failed Saudi incursion. "The Saudis began an attack along many fronts on the Yemeni border," said...

From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation, driven here by...

Allegations of torture in Yemen are seldom investigated or prosecuted and there appears to be "a climate of impunity" for the perpetrators, the UN body added. According to the committee, political activists, journalists and rights defenders have been arrested arbitrarily...

The Yemeni army called on the misled al-Houthi rebels to surrender themselves in Sa’adah province, where fierce battles continue. In a statement published by state-run media, the Ministry of Defense said that the police stations, local authority buildings, houses of...

A hospitalized victim of a Busan, South Korean, indoor shooting range fire has died, bringing the death toll to 11, officials said Wednesday. Tour guide Moon Min-ja, 67, died of severe burns and heart failure at Hana Hospital in Busan,...

The news came on Thursday, hours after the Shia fighters said they destroyed a number of Saudi military vehicles and tanks in northern Yemen. In August, Sana'a pressed a new offensive against the resistance fighters, who took arms in 2004...

Government forces destroyed weaponry belonging to the Houthi fighters and wreaked massive losses in terms of casualties and equipment in Tuesday's clash in the province of Sa'ada. Abbas Aaida and Abu Haider were killed and another commander, Yousif al-Madani, was...

Wahhabism is an extremely intolerant interpretation of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia. The sect gained momentum after the discovery of oil in the kingdom in 1938, helping it spread throughout the Middle East. The fighting in Yemen started in August...

It seems the only time the rest of the world hears about Yemen is when a crisis spreads beyond the borders of this ancient land tucked into the southwest corner of the Arabian peninsula. These days, it is the Yemeni...