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More than 100 prisoners of war were flown from Saudi Arabia to Yemen on Monday, further buoying peace hopes a day after a major exchange of 869 captives ended, the ICRC said. Two International Committee of the Red Cross planes carrying 48 prisoners each flew to Sanaa, Yemen’s rebel-held capital, …

More than 50 high-ranking Saudi-backed militant commanders loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi have reportedly been killed while fighting Yemeni army troops and their allies over the control of the country’s strategic oil-producing province of Ma’rib. Yemen’s al-Khabar al-Yemeni news website, citing informed sources who preferred not …

The Yemeni army has launched a large-scale military operation inside Saudi Arabia, hitting the Arab kingdom’s Khaled airbase and Aramco refinery, in retaliation for a years-long brutal war by the Saudi-led coalition against impoverished Yemen. In a statement carried by Yemen’s al-Masirah television network on Saturday, spokesman of Yemen’s Armed …

At least one person has been killed and three others wounded when Saudi fighter jets struck pharmaceutical warehouses in Yemen’s capital province of Sana’a. They bombarded the facilities in the Saawan neighborhood on Thursday, Yemen’s Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported, citing local sources. Saudi military spokesman Turki al-Maliki confirmed the …

Ten thousand Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March 2015 after the Yemeni forces ousted the government, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. “The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone. We now have 10,000 …

Yemeni forces have fired a domestically-designed ballistic missile at a position of Saudi militants loyal to the resigned Yemeni president in the country’s central province of Ma’rib. Military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Yemen News Portal website that massive explosions were heard Thursday evening as the missile …

The Saudi-led coalition has rejected the findings of a report by the UN Human Rights Council that strongly condemns the egregious violations committed by the foreign forces in Yemen. Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, Abdul Aziz Al-Wasel, said the coalition “does not accept the report,” calling …

At least 30 civilians have been killed and many others injured in fresh air raids conducted by Saudi warplanes on Yemen’s northern Jawf Province, Yemeni media report. The al-Masirah TV channel reported Saturday that the Riyadh regime carried out eight aerial assaults on Jawf’s al-Maslub district. The strikes, it added, …

South Korea says all the crew members and the three vessels seized earlier by Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement in the Red Sea have been released. The three vessels and the 16 people on them had been detained a few miles off Uqban Island, off the western coasts of Yemen, on …

For more than four years, Yemen’s army and allied popular forces — led by the Houthi Ansarullah movement — have been defending the country against a devastating Saudi-led military campaign meant to reinstate a former Riyadh-friendly government. The war has so far claimed over 91,000 lives and taken a heavy …

Yemeni drones have hit two oil facilities of Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant Aramco in the country’s east, causing huge fires before dawn on Saturday. A spokesman for Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry said in a statement that the attacks targeted two Aramco factories in Abqaiq and Khurais. The statement did …

A Red Cross official has estimated that Saudi airstrikes killed at least 100 people at a Yemeni prison. Medics have been dispatched to the scene of what looks like the deadliest strike in Yemen this year. Airstrikes pounded the detention center located in a college building in the southwest of …

A US military MQ-9 drone was shot down in Yemen’s Dhamar governorate, southeast of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, Reuters reported two US officials as saying on Wednesday. The officials confirmed that the drone was shot down late on Tuesday. A Houthi military spokesman had earlier been quoted by the rebels’ …