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  • Gov’t forces reclaim swaths of territory in central Yemen

    Houthi officials said the rebels suffered heavy losses in the fighting that raged over the weekend, and that they sent reinforcements to the province to repel government attacks. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.

  • Saudi official in U.S. for talks on Yemen, Iran, Khashoggi

    “They’ll discuss the longstanding partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia, regional security and the U.S. commitment to help Saudi Arabia defend its territory as it faces attacks from Iranian-aligned groups,” she said.

  • Houthis launch rare attack on Yemen’s tense southern region

    Yemen's Houthi movement on Sunday carried out a rare missile strike on a southern region that has seen renewed infighting between forces allied to a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia, three government sources said. The attack on a military base in Abyan, which two of the sources said killed at least two soldiers and injured over 20, comes as the recognised government and a separatist group both mass fighters in the area while Riyadh moves to ease tensions.

  • Saudi donates $60 mln to stave off Yemen famine

    Saudi Arabia has donated $60 million to help prevent famine in war-torn Yemen, where soaring food prices and Covid-19 have deepened battle woes, the United Nations said Thursday. The conflict flared in 2014 when Huthi insurgents seized the capital Sanaa, prompting a Saudi-led military intervention to prop up the government the following year.

  • Yemen government and rebel fighters clash on Marib frontline

    Clashes between Houthi militia and Yemeni government fighters continued at Marib’s Al-Kassara frontline in Yemen, following a renewed offensive by the insurgents.

  • US-made drones downed over Yemen weren’t military’s, CENTCOM says

    The US military disavowed two drones reportedly shot down by Yemen’s Houthi rebels near the contested city of Marib over the weekend, saying it had lost no such unmanned aircraft recently in the region.

  • Fighting between separatist brigades kills two in Yemen’s Aden – sources

    Clashes between brigades of the main southern separatist movement in Yemen killed two fighters and wounded 15 people, including civilians, in the port city of Aden, security sources said on Thursday. Aden is the interim seat of Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and has seen rising tensions between the government and the Southern Transitional Council (STC) over control of the city and wider south. The Houthi movement holds most of the north.

  • End of Yemen quagmire? Saudi-led coalition, Houthis near peace deal

    One of the sources said Riyadh was open to a deal but “would need some additional guarantees from Oman and Iran”, both with close ties with the Houthis. If an agreement was reached, it would be the first breakthrough in U.N.-led efforts to end the war since stalled peace talks were last held in Sweden in December 2018. It would also hand Joe Biden’s administration a foreign policy win and ease tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

  • Lenderking Visits Riyadh in a New Attempt to Revive Yemen Ceasefire

    US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will once again travel to Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with senior officials from both the official Yemeni government and the Kingdom and UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths. Lenderking’s visit comes as Griffiths’ peace initiative failed to convince the Houthis to engage in efforts to establish a ceasefire, alleviate the suffering of Yemenis and reboot political negotiations for a final settlement to ongoing Yemeni crises.

  • Saudi air defenses intercept drone launched by Yemen’s Houthis

    Saudi Arabia's air defences intercepted a drone launched by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group toward Khamis Mushait on Thursday, Al-Arabiya TV channel reported on Thursday.