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  • Yemen rebels, Saudis in back-channel talks to maintain truce

    Amid Yemen’s longest-ever pause in fighting — more than nine months — Saudi Arabia and its rival, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, have revived back-channel talks, according to Yemeni, Saudi and U.N. officials. The two sides hope to strengthen the informal cease-fire and lay out a path for a negotiated end to the long civil war.

  • U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Lenderking’s Travel to Jordan and Saudi Arabia

    U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking traveled to Jordan and Saudi Arabia on January 3 to advance UN-led peace efforts and to support the Yemeni parties to reach an agreement on a truce extension and expansion, for the sake of all Yemenis.  A durable ceasefire and an inclusive Yemeni-led political settlement are the only path forward to end the conflict and reverse Yemen’s dire humanitarian crisis.  We urge the Houthis to cooperate with the UN and listen to Yemeni calls for justice, accountability, and peace. Yemenis deserve to determine the future of their country, and the United States remains committed to supporting a sustainable end to over eight years of conflict.

  • Red Cross conducts rare visit with 3,400 Yemen war prisoners

    The Red Cross said Wednesday that it had conducted rare visits to thousands of prisoners on both sides of Yemen’s eight-year civil war, a step that could pave the way for an exchange of detainees between the rival parties. Fabrizio Carboni, the International Committee of the Red Cross’s director for the Middle East, told The Associated Press that members of the organization had seen more than 3,400 individuals in a 10-day visit to a facility in Saudi Arabia in December and a separate trip to Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in October. Carboni was speaking in a Zoom call from Geneva, where he is based.

  • How the Protests in Iran Will Affect Yemen

    The intent, for Iran, is to project insecurity outwards; concretely, this means that Tehran’s foreign policy is partly geared toward ensuring regime security. With the Islamic Republic increasingly vulnerable domestically, we can expect it to double down on its usual tactics in the coming weeks and months: faced with a perceived threat or provocation, its threshold for retaliation risks becoming lower, while the amount of force it employs could become stronger.

  • Perspective: US and Saudis End Rift Over Oil Production Cuts, Yemen and China

    Over the last few months US-Saudi ties have passed a series of significant tests, any of which could have done considerable long-term damage. But behind the scenes, the relationship is not only repairing, it's being reconceptualized on both sides in a way that should make it stronger.

  • Perspective: US and Saudis End Rift Over Oil Production Cuts, Yemen and China

    Over the last few months US-Saudi ties have passed a series of significant tests, any of which could have done considerable long-term damage. But behind the scenes, the relationship is not only repairing, it's being reconceptualized on both sides in a way that should make it stronger.

  • More than 11,000 children killed or wounded in Yemen since 2015 – UNICEF

    More than 11,000 children have been killed or wounded in the conflict in Yemen since 2015, the U.N. Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday, a week after it launched a multi-billion global funding drive. Yemen's Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthis have been escalating an economic war amid stalling U.N.-led efforts for a new truce since an earlier pact expired on Oct. 2, leading to more humanitarian pain.

  • Navy seizes a large cache of ammunition bound for Yemen

    For the second time in less than a month, the U.S. Navy intercepted a ship passing through the Gulf of Oman and seized a large shipment of illicit weapons bound for Yemen..

  • US, Oman discuss efforts to reach political solution in Yemen

    The meetings of the US and UN envoys come as part of continued international efforts to extend the six-month truce between the internationally-recognised government and the Houthis that ended on 2 October.

  • Yemen’s Government Calls for Support Against Houthis

    On Sunday, November 27, Yemeni Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak publicly announced the Yemeni government’s intent to categorize the Houthis as a terrorist organization. The Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council further asserted the government’s will to instate strong punitive measures against Houthi militias. This diplomatic action against the Houthis comes in response to last week’s Houthi attack in southern provinces of Yemen. The international and regional communities have explored a variety of responses to the Houthis attacks, and many Middle Eastern Countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Jordan, have directly spoken out against the operations.