Battles between Saudi-backed government forces and Houthi fighters are raging in several parts of Marib province in northeast Yemen. Government forces on Thursday repelled a Houthi attack on the area of Al-Awsahl in the Murad Mountain west of the province, killing 10 Houthi fighters and captur   Details..>>

Saudi Arabia has signed a series of deals to provide more than $200 million in funding to United Nations aid agencies operating in Yemen, just days after a CNN investigation highlighted a crisis in aid funding for the war-stricken nation. The investigation revealed that support pledged to UN a   Details..>>

Scores of lawmakers are calling on the State Department to reconsider US assistance to Yemen that was suspended by the Trump administration earlier this year. Led by Congressman Ted Deutch, more than 50 Democratic House Representatives submitted a joint letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo   Details..>>

 The UN says more than 10,000 people have died in the past 18 months - 100,000 since 2015 - and 80% of its population of 30 million are dependent on aid. More than 20 million require urgent humanitarian assistance - almost half of them children - and more than three million people have be   Details..>>

Yemen’s Congregation for Reform, known as Al-Islah party, yesterday said one of its leaders was assassinated in the country’s southern province of Al-Dhale. Local sources told the party-owned Al-Sahwa that the head of the “local branch of Al-Islah party in Al-Azariq district,   Details..>>

France said on Wednesday it regretted that Lebanese political leaders have failed to form a new government in line with a commitment made to President Emmanuel Macron, but that it was not too late to do so. The statement by Macron’s office came after Lebanese politicians missed a 15-day   Details..>>

Thousands of Yemenis could soon lose access to telecommunications and internet services in the capital, Sanaa, due to a lack of fuel needed to operate the corporation’s facilities, Yemen’s Saba news agency reported. The agency quoted a corporation source saying that the telecommuni   Details..>>

Bahraini Minister of Defense Affairs Major General Abdullah bin Hassan Al-Nuaimi held talks on Monday with his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz. During a phone call, the officials discussed the importance for regional stability in the Middle East of a new deal to normalize relations with Israel   Details..>>

 Suspected Israeli air strikes in eastern Syria on Monday killed 10 pro-Iran fighters, most of them Iraqis, a war monitor said. The raids against militant positions south of the town of Albu Kamal in Deir Ezzor province took the lives of eight Iraqi and two Syrian combatants, the Syrian O   Details..>>

The United Nations must assert pressure on Yemen’s Houthis to stop their offensive on Marib as millions of lives are at risk, the government said on Monday. The Houthis have been pushing towards the city on multiple fronts, seeking to take the last government-controlled major city in the   Details..>>