The leader of Kata’ib Sayyid al Shuhada (KSS), an Iraqi Shia militia with close ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), recently stated that he is willing to send his men to Yemen to fight alongside the Houthis against the Saudi-led coalition in the country. Abu Waa   Details..>>

At least three people were killed in a suicide car bombing in Yemen’s coastal city of Aden on Tuesday, according to residents and a local medical source. Residents of Aden’s Sheikh Othman district said a bomb-laden car had plowed into a mess hall serving Yemeni forces trained by th   Details..>>

The death toll from a diphtheria outbreak in war-torn Yemen has risen to 72 people, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday. In a statement, the UN agency said some 1,193 suspected cases of diphtheria have been registered in 20 of Yemen’s 23 provinces. It listed I   Details..>>

A senior security official was shot dead in Yemen's coastal city of Aden on Monday, according to a local security official.  Unidentified gunmen opened fire on Abdul Karim Abdullah, the deputy security chief of the 7th security zone, inside a restaurant, the official said on condition of anon   Details..>>

Two children were killed and eight wounded in an airstrike on the northern Yemeni Houthi stronghold of Saada, a UN agency said on Wednesday. A Saudi-led military coalition allied with Yemen's government is the only party known to conduct air raids over areas controlled by Yemen's Houthis. Th   Details..>>

  Russia vetoed a United Nations draft resolution Monday that would have linked Iran with the transfer of Iranian-made arms to Houthi militias in Yemen.  The UK-proposed draft, which was strongly backed by the United States and its allies, was blocked by Russia despite being supported   Details..>>

  The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote Monday on a British-drafted resolution that would condemn Iran for violating a U.N. arms embargo by providing missiles and drones to Shiite rebels in Yemen — and commit to future action against Tehran. Kuwait's U.N. Ambassador Mansour A   Details..>>

The two blasts reportedly ripped through the Yemeni southern city on Saturday, killing and injuring local residents. According to Jumhouriya hospital officials in Aden, dozens of people were either killed or wounded in the explosions. They said that five bodies – mostly troops – ha   Details..>>

Saudi Arabia has pledged $11 million to tackle the cholera epidemic in Yemen - the worst outbreak of the disease in recent history, stemming from the kingdom's military intervention in the country. The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) and the World Health Organisation   Details..>>

Britain called on Iran to stop taking actions which could escalate the conflict in Yemen after a United Nations group of experts found that missiles and military equipment of Iranian origin were introduced into Yemen after an arms embargo. “I call on Iran to cease activity which risks es   Details..>>