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2/5/2024 10:02:09 PM
Yemen's internationally-recognized government Monday named foreign minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak as the new prime minister in a surprise appointment that analysts say will likely anger the country's Iran-backed Huthi rebels.
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1/31/2024 9:19:59 PM
U.S. officials are revising their preliminary findings on what happened to two Navy SEALs who died during a mission to board an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen.
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1/23/2024 1:57:12 PM
US and UK strikes on rebel-held Yemen have marked a sharp rise in tensions around the Red Sea, where Iran-backed Huthi insurgents have been attacking shipping.
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1/13/2024 10:00:00 AM
The United States carried out a fresh strike Saturday on a Huthi rebel target in Yemen, the US military said, after the Iran-backed militants warned of further attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
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1/11/2024 7:45:30 PM
A spate of attacks by Yemeni rebels on Red Sea shipping has disrupted the vital trade route, but experts say stopping them appears difficult at best -- and risky at worst.
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12/18/2023 11:14:53 AM
A "possible explosion" struck a key shipping lane off Yemen Monday, two maritime agencies said, the latest incident in the vital waterway threatened by Huthi rebel attacks.
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12/14/2023 6:07:00 PM
Yemen's Iran-backed Huthis fired a missile at a cargo ship en route to Saudi Arabia on Thursday but missed, a US official and a private intelligence firm said.
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9/15/2023 3:27:38 PM
Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels said they hoped to overcome "challenges" on Friday as they head into unprecedented talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending their devastating eight-year war.
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9/14/2023 6:24:52 PM
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels are to fly to Saudi Arabia for the first publicly announced visit since a Saudi-led military intervention against them in 2015, government and diplomatic sources said on Thursday.
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8/27/2023 4:57:17 PM
Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Sunday killed 10 Yemen army soldiers from a southern separatist faction in a "surprise attack" after more than a year of relative calm, military sources said.
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8/10/2023 3:29:50 PM
A suspected Al-Qaida attack in southern Yemen killed a military commander and three soldiers from the Southern Transitional Council on Thursday, security officials and an eyewitness said.
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Business
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Economy
8/1/2023 1:35:11 PM
Saudi Arabia has approved a $1.2 billion grant to Yemen's internationally recognised government, two officials told AFP on Tuesday, the latest attempt to prop up the war-scarred country's flagging economy.
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7/23/2023 3:53:58 PM
Iraq has offered to mediate between warring parties in Yemen in an effort to end the country's years-long war, Iraq's top diplomat said at a press conference on Sunday.
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6/26/2023 4:26:41 PM
At a livestock market in war-battered Yemen, goats and sheep meant to be slaughtered for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday are happily munching on hay, instead of leaving with a buyer.
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6/18/2023 4:38:06 PM
Yemen's government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels are locked in talks in Jordan to set the ground for a possible prisoner exchange, a Red Cross official told AFP on Sunday.
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6/17/2023 1:57:38 PM
Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern Yemen to join the queues at the nearest public dispenser.
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5/11/2023 2:23:49 PM
Warring parties in Yemen are "serious" about ending a devastating eight-year-old conflict but it is impossible to predict when talks between Yemenis, much less a breakthrough, might happen, Saudi Arabia's envoy told AFP.
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4/8/2023 9:00:12 PM
Omani mediators arrived in Yemen Saturday to discuss a new truce between the Iran-backed Huthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, an airport source said, amid renewed moves to end the conflict.
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3/20/2023 4:02:54 PM
Yemen's Huthi rebels and the internationally recognised government have agreed at talks in Switzerland to swap more than 880 prisoners, both sides said Monday as efforts accelerate to end the war.
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12/1/2022 8:17:52 PM
Two months after Yemen's truce expired, fighting largely remains on hold but a series of attacks by Huthi rebels could have serious repercussions for a country crippled by war.
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