* Only half of children in north Yemen in school * UN assessment teams pull out of north as tensions rise By Erika Solomon DUBAI, May 13 (Reuters) - Gunmen are seizing schools in north Yemen despite a ...

They have no navy or air force. Their leader has a reputation for living on the move, shuffling between safe houses. And they emerged from a minority Shiite Muslim community in north Yemen’s rugged ...

On November 10, 2024, U.S. and British forces reportedly struck at Houthi weapons depots in and around Sana’a. While culling the Houthi arsenal is a strategic interest, the failure of Washington and ...

The death toll in four days of clashes between rival Muslim clans in north Yemen rose to 55 on Saturday, one of the clans said, as the Yemeni government tried to broker a ceasefire in a region that ...

On August 28 Israel targeted the Iran-backed Houthis senior leadership in Yemen. Airstrikes hit a meeting of the Prime Minister and other senior ministers and officials. The Houthis said on August 30 ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Three people were wounded in a north Yemen city market as rebels exchanged fire with pro-government tribes who then cut the road between the northern rebel stronghold and the capital ...

Ali Abdullah Saleh has a phrase for it. Ruling Yemen, he says, is like “dancing on the heads of snakes.” Saleh, Yemen’s President, has had plenty of practice. As an army officer back in 1978, he took ...

CAIRO (AP) — Doctors Without Borders announced on Thursday that it’s withdrawing from northern Yemen due to what the international aid group called “indiscriminate bombings and unreliable reassurances ...

UNHCR worried about deteriorating humanitarian situation in north Yemen UNHCR “gravely concerned” about the situation around the northern Yemen city of Sa’ada, where more than 35,000 people have been ...

Fighting between Shia Houthi rebels and Sunni Salafis in northern Yemen has killed more than 120 and a government official in charge of enforcing a ceasefire accused the Houthis of breaking the truce, ...

The government in Yemen says it will pour its limited resources into the military as it attempts to put down a Shiite insurgency in the north. Yemen also faces violent separatists in the south, and ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 18 September 2009 The humanitarian ...