The advisor to the Yemeni president, Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi, attacked UN Envoy Martin Griffiths, and demanded his resignation and admission to failure. This came in a post Al-Mekhlafi published on his Twitter account on Wednesday. Al-Mekhlafi posted: “In Yemen, legitimacy has agr   Details..>>

 A criminal court in Yemen’s interim capital Aden on Thursday held the first sessions of a trial in absentia involving 32 top Houthi members, who mounted a coup against the UN-recognized government, according to governmental sources. On trial is the Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Hout   Details..>>

Local authorities in Yemen’s southeastern Hadramout province have imposed a curfew in major cities as the country steps up its fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The move came as other regions began releasing low-risk prisoners to help protect prisons from an outbreak of the virus.   Details..>>

UN Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths has opened four internationally sponsored "fronts" through which he aspires to bring peace to war-torn Yemen. These fronts are: a nationwide ceasefire, humanitarian and economic measures to alleviate the suffering of Yemenis, a speedy resumption of th   Details..>>

 The United Nations and Western allies are pointing to the threat of coronavirus to push Yemen’s combatants to agree to fresh talks to end a war that has left millions vulnerable to disease, the U.N. and sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The world body has sent a pr   Details..>>

Yossi Mohen, the chief of Israel’s national security apparatus Mossad, has been required to go into isolation following health minister Yaakov Litzman’s diagnosis of the coronavirus. Various newspapers have reported that Cohen was tasked to lead, together with the intelligence agen   Details..>>

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo told his Saudi counterpart, Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, that the United States backs UN special envoy Martin Griffiths’ efforts to negotiate a reduction in violence in Yemen’s civil war, the State Department said in a readout of th   Details..>>

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health announced 157 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases in the Kingdom to 1,720. Of the new cases reported, 78 were recorded in Madinah, 55 in Makkah and the rest in Riyadh, Qatif, Jeddah, Hufof, Tabuk, Taif and Al-Henaki   Details..>>

Iran warned the US Wednesday that it was leading the Middle East to disaster in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic after it deployed Patriot air defense missiles to Iraq. Washington had been in talks with Baghdad about the proposed deployment since January but it was not immediately clear w   Details..>>

As the world focuses on combating the coronavirus pandemic, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has declared its fight in Yemen and other conflict countries “almost impossible,” unless states and humanitarian organizations immediately launch a coordinated response.   Details..>>