Speaking just after his final briefing to the UN Security Council, Jamal Bin Omar, outgoing UN envoy to Yemen, warned that the conflict there is “becoming a confrontation with competing local and regional agendas”.
On Monday, Bin Omar said the (...)
The rebel Houthi group leader Abdel-Malik Al-Houthi this week declared a “war on terrorists” from the Al-Qaeda and Islamic State (IS) groups that he says are trying to take over the volatile south and north of the country.
Meanwhile, Yemeni (...)
Yemen's fugitive president, Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi, rejected the results of a UN-sponsored dialogue held in the capital Sanaa this week, saying, “The Sanaa dialogue is illegitimate and we will not accept its outcomes.”
The comments marked a dangerous (...)
Yemen's Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi faces at least three threats in the southern city of Aden, to which he fled, despite Saudi and international support as the country's legitimate president.
The first is a growing and regrouping Al-Qaeda presence in and (...)
Yemen's Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi faces at least three threats in the southern city of Aden, to which he fled, despite Saudi and international support as the country's legitimate president.
The first is a growing and regrouping Al-Qaeda presence in and (...)
The crisis in Yemen saw a new turning point this week with the news that former president Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi had withdrawn his resignation following his flight to Aden, the capital of the south of the country, where is trying to re-establish (...)
Western and Gulf embassies closed in Yemen after the Houthi movement that has seized power by force announced itself the new ruler of Yemen, north and south, according to a constitutional declaration refused by all.
The first embassy to close was (...)
Rebel Houthi forces occupying Sanaa this week issued an ultimatum to the country's parties to find a solution to the crisis. The demand followed the failure of Yemen's political parties to resolve the power vacuum caused by the resignation of (...)
Yemen has been without a president or government for about one week now. Nothing out of the ordinary happened after President Abdu Rabu Mansour resigned, and nothing happened after Prime Minister Khaled Bahah resigned. No violence, no riots, no (...)
One day of real war recently erupted in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital. It was not like the previous wars that this city and the country as a whole have witnessed over the last four years.
It was a symbolic war — a war to show who is stronger, and who (...)
Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi ordered his government this week to do its utmost to stop an imminent conflict between Al-Houthi rebels in the oil-rich eastern province of Mareb and Al-Qaeda fighters.
The two sides have been mobilising (...)
A new war is emerging in Yemen: the war of the new constitution that seeks to divide Yemen into six regions.
The ruling group of the Houthi movement that has been leading a rebellion against the Sanaa regime has refused to divide Yemen into regions, (...)
The US Embassy in Yemen is now officially at high risk after two US commando raids on Al-Qaeda were made last week in a failed attempt to rescue a kidnapped American photojournalist held in the volatile country.
The retaliation started from Sayoun (...)
Hirak separatists in South Yemen did not proclaim their separation from the rest of the country on 30 November as they had threatened last October. No one from the north was deported, and the borders were not closed.
The majority of people in the (...)
Two main groups have refused the 36-member government formed earlier this week in Yemen after the UN Security Council sanctioned three leaders of these groups as spoilers.
The two groups have plans to overthrow the government regardless of the (...)
The United States officially asked the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on the Yemeni ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, and the top leader of the country's Shiite Houthi rebels Abdel-Malik and one of his aides this week.
The request was (...)
Houthi Shiite fighters in Yemen have not withdrawn from the Yemeni capital Sanaa despite a presidential decree to form a new government chaired by a man they had already approved.
The country's president, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, appointed Khaled (...)
A new war has started in Yemen after Houthi rebels took control of the capital Sanaa.
Al-Qaeda is leading this new war against the Shia Houthi with obvious support from the defeated forces.
Over the last three days, Al-Qaeda killed more than 30 (...)
Yemen's capital Sanaa is now under the complete control of Shia Houthi rebels. Fierce battles killed and injured some 500 people before the fall of Sanaa.
The fragile army and security apparatus failed to respond when Houthi fighters clashed with (...)
The ghost of war is looming over the Yemeni capital Sanaa after the failure of last-ditch negotiations. The Houthi deployed more fighters in and around Sanaa after their representatives withdrew from the negotiations committee. The UN envoy, Jamal (...)
The conflict between Houthi protesters and the Yemeni government has reached a new threshold. On Monday, Houthi leader Abdul Malik Al-Houthi ordered his supporters to begin the last phase of their revolution to remove President Abdu Rabu Mansour (...)
A new national unity government is to be formed in Yemen by mid-September, according to a deal between Yemeni President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi and Abdel-Malik Al-Houthi, leader of the Houthi group that has been fighting against the government.
Under (...)
The two main religious groups in Yemen exchanged accusations this week after Al-Qaeda killed 14 of the country's soldiers last Friday.
The Shiite Houthi group said the leaders of the Yemen Muslim Brotherhood Al-Islah Party had supported terrorists (...)
Yemen is witnessing angry demonstrations in protest at a government decision to stop subsidies on oil derivatives, doubling their prices. According to government sources, removal of the subsidies is necessary to right the national budget, but (...)
The US and UK ambassadors to Yemen handed a statement by a group of ten ambassadors on the country's warring groups to Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi earlier this week, spelling out concerns about the conflict in the country between the (...)