DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The United Nations said Friday it is seeking nearly $80 million for an emergency operation to prevent a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea off war-ravaged Yemen. The 45-year-old tanker FSO Safer, long used as a floating oil storage platform with 1.1 million...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The Saudi-led coalition carried out air strikes in Yemen early on Sunday after the country's Huthi rebels called a three-day truce and offered a permanent ceasefire, Saudi media said. The raids targeted Sanaa, the rebel-held capital, according to Saudi Arabia's Al Ekhbariya...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- UN chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday condemned an exchange of attacks between Yemen's Huthi rebels and the Saudi-led coalition, calling for "restraint" on all sides in the seven-year conflict. "The Secretary-General strongly condemns the recent escalation of the...
SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's Huthi rebels announced a three-day truce with the Saudi-led coalition and dangled the prospect of a "permanent" ceasefire on Saturday, the seventh anniversary of a brutal conflict that has left millions on the brink of famine. A day after a wave of Huthi drone and missile...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- A Yemeni rebel attack on a Saudi oil plant set off a huge fire near Jeddah's Formula One circuit during televised practice sessions on Friday, part of a wave of assaults on Aramco facilities. Smoke billowed near the circuit and the second practice was delayed in the attack,...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The United Nations and aid groups have warned of grave consequences for Yemen after an international pledging conference failed to raise enough money to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the war-torn country. Overshadowed by the conflict in Ukraine,...
ADEN, Yemen -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday that millions of Yemeni people are at risk of famine as a result of the country's years-long military conflict and sharp deterioration of its economy, calling for urgent action. "Children in Yemen are starving not because...
SANAA, Yemen -- At least 18 soldiers were killed on Sunday in fighting between the Yemeni army and Houthi militia in Yemen's central province of Marib, government military source said. "Eighteen soldiers were killed today in the battle in the desert area of al-Balak al-Sharki in southern Marib,"...
