Border guards in Saudi Arabia have fired machine guns and launched mortars at Ethiopians trying to cross into the kingdom from Yemen, likely killing hundreds of the unarmed migrants in recent years, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday. The
The United Nations said Friday that five staff members who were kidnapped in Yemen 18 months ago have walked free. In a brief statement, Farhan Haq, the deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, said all “available information suggests that all
A suspected militant attack early Tuesday in southern Yemen killed at least five troops loyal to a secessionist group, in the latest such assault blamed on an affiliate of al-Qaida, a military spokesman said. The attack took place in Wadi Omran in
Gunmen shot and killed the head of one of the World Food Program’s offices in Yemen on Friday, the humanitarian organization said. In a statement, the program said that Moayad Hameidi, a Jordanian, was shot by gunmen not long after he arrived
At least 78 people are said to have been killed with dozens more injured in a stampede at an event to distribute financial aid in Yemen’s capital Sanaa, according to the controlling forces there. According to officials from the Houthi-run Interior Ministry,
The son of a Yemeni billionaire who fled the United Kingdom 15 years ago reportedly admitted to his involvement in the 2008 murder and rape of a Norwegian fellow student in London. The BBC reported that Farouk Abdulhak recently admitted to his
The U.N. special envoy for Yemen said Wednesday that intense diplomatic efforts are underway to end the eight-year war in Yemen. He cited new regional and international momentum, including the recent restoration of diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran, who back
Bombings by the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen using weapons supplied by the UK and US killed scores of civilians between January 2021 and February 2022 according to the research collected by the charity Oxfam. The humanitarian organisation is calling on the UK