The extension comes into effect when the truce period expires on 2 June 2022. The truce has allowed oil tankers to dock in the rebel-held port of Hodeida. Yemen gripped by conflict since Iran’s Huthi rebels controlled the capital Sanaa Yemen’s warring parties agreed to extend a two-month truce on Thursday, the United Nations said, … Read more
Aid agencies urged Yemen’s warring parties to extend a two-month UN-brokered truce on Tuesday two days before it was set to expire, saying it had “positive humanitarian impacts”. A brutal seven-year conflict pitting Yemen’s Saudi-backed government against the Iran-aligned Huthi rebels has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left millions on the brink of famine. On … Read more
The number of people with disabilities in Yemen is rising following seven years of civil conflict, with amputations, in particular, rising due to strikes on urban centers, According to the humanitarian organization Handicap International. Millions of people have been displaced by the savage struggle pitting the Saudi-backed government against the Iran-backed Huthi rebels, which has … Read more
RIYADH – The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said Tuesday it killed 48 Huthi rebels in air strikes on two districts near the strategic city of Marib, during intense fighting this week. The Iran-backed Huthis rarely comment on losses, and the numbers could not be independently verified by AFP. This is the ninth consecutive day that the … Read more
