[ad_1] Aden: Clashes broke out between government forces and Houthi militia in Yemen’s southwestern governorate of Taiz, resulting in multiple casualties, a government military official said to Xinhua. The conflict, which lasted for several hours, was triggered by an attempted infiltration by Houthi fighters into positions held by Yemeni government forces on the eastern outskirts … Read more
[ad_1] Sanaa: Yemen’s Houthi rebels have released a government military commander who had been detained for eight years, a Houthi official announced in a statement. Faisal Rajab, a commander in the Yemeni government army, was released on Sunday after a request was made by a tribal delegation from his hometown in the southern province of … Read more
[ad_1] Armed guards aboard a yacht once owned by the late Welsh actor Richard Burton have fired on approaching ships in the Gulf of Aden, prompting an intense gunfight. Yemeni authorities said the guards mistakenly opened fire on a Coast Guard vessel but the ship’s manager insisted they had clashed with pirates. The shooting reportedly … Read more
[ad_1] Aden: The eight-year war in Yemen has left 11 million children in need of humanitarian aid and 2.2 million suffer from acute malnutrition, the Unicef said. More than 540,000 children face life-threatening severe acute malnutrition and are in urgent need of medical treatment, the Unicef said in a press statement on Friday. It warned … Read more
[ad_1] Salman and Abdullah. Photo: SPA Riyadh: A team of doctors in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh on Thursday successfully separated Yemeni conjoined twins in an eight-hour surgery, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported. The Yemeni twins— Salman and Abdullah, were joined at the pelvis and abdomen, and shared a bladder and colon. The four-month old … Read more
[ad_1] PLC Chairman Rashad al-Alimi Aden: Rashad al-Alimi, Chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, on Tuesday discussed with a European diplomatic delegation the ongoing regional and international efforts to renew the expired truce in the war-torn country. Al-Alimi met in the southern port city Aden with Gabriel Vinales, the Chief of the European Union Mission … Read more