President Tayyip Erdogan’s pledge to carry out a new military incursion on Turkey’s southern borders has triggered speculation about potential targets, with the Syrian town of Tal Rifaat emerging as a primary goal of any operation. Two days after Erdogan announced the plan, the pro   Details..>>

Yemen´s warring sides were meeting Wednesday for talks on reopening roads in Taiz and other provinces as the United Nations pushes to extend a two-month cease-fire ahead of a looming deadline, the U.N. mission said. According to the U.N., the talks between representatives from Yemen's in   Details..>>

Yemen's Houthis said on Monday evening that three people were killed in the country's capital Sanaa when a drone aircraft crashed in a residential area after being shot down. Sanaa has been controlled by the Houthis since 2014. In that year, the group forced the internationally recognised gove   Details..>>

The head of Yemen's Houthi Supreme Political Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, on Sunday said the group was not against extending a UN-brokered truce, despite describing it as "not encouraging enough". The two-month nationwide truce between a Saudi-led coalition and the Iran-aligned Houthi group, the   Details..>>

The number of people with disabilities is soaring in Yemen after seven years of civil war, with amputations in particular rising from attacks on urban areas, the aid group Handicap International said on Friday. Millions have been forced from their homes in the brutal conflict pitting the Saudi   Details..>>

A Hong Kong-flagged sailboat is reported to have come under attack on Thursday off the coast of war-torn Yemen, though the circumstances of the incident remained unclear, officials said. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations group said the attack happened off Hodeida, a contested port city   Details..>>

With just two weeks left in a two-month cease-fire in Yemen, the U.N. envoy to the war-torn country said Tuesday that talks with the government and Houthis are going on right now and he hopes the truce will be extended. But Hans Grundberg was wary of making any prediction, saying that agreemen   Details..>>

 Yemen's national airline operated on Monday its first commercial flight in years from the capital Sanaa, raising hopes for renewal of a U.N.-brokered truce in the seven-year-old conflict that has pitted a Saudi-led coalition against the Iran-aligned Houthis and put Middle East security in   Details..>>

Israel reopened on Sunday its only crossing with the Gaza Strip to Palestinian workers nearly two weeks after closing it over unrest, the defense ministry said. “Following an assessment of the security situation, it has been decided... to open Erez Crossing for passage of workers and per   Details..>>

  Yemen's government will permit citizens living in areas controlled by Houthis to travel on Houthi-issued passports, an official told AFP, removing a barrier to long-awaited commercial flights out of the capital Sanaa. The flights are one component of a renewable two-month truce that went   Details..>>