Yemen has denied a report which claims Houthi fighters have captured 200 soldiers from the army’s Republican Guards in the northern province of Amran. The report carried by Al-Arabiya said that the soldiers belonging to regiment 72 of the army’s Republican Guards were captured after the Muslim fighters seized a strategic army post in Al-Zaala [...]

The Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi leader, Abdul Malik al-Houthi, has called on all devout supporters to conform to a ceasefire proclaimed by the Yemeni government. “The Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi movement, hereby, calls on all devout supporters to break off fighting on all fronts and conform to a ceasefire earlier proclaimed by the government,” said [...]

Saudi fighter jets keep bombing Houthi positions in northern Yemen along the border the country shares with the oil-rich kingdom, killing more than a dozen people. According to a statement released by the fighters on Monday, Saudi forces carried out 17 aerial attacks on Dammaj, destroying a mosque in the northern region. The warplanes also [...]

Saudi fighter jets have launched another round of airstikes on Houthi positions in northern Yemen. According to a statement issued by the Houthi fighters on Sunday, Saudi forces carried out 24 aerial attacks on Jebel Razih, Sha’af, Bani Maaz, and villages in close proximity to the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The statement added [...]

Yemeni human rights groups have condemned orchestrated air raids by Yemeni, Saudi and the US forces against civilians in the northern province of Sa’ada. The groups said the attacks, which have killed scores of civilians including women and children, amounted to “war crimes.” The Yemeni National NGO Coalition for Child Rights Care and the Yemeni [...]

Houthi fighters say they have destroyed several Saudi Arabian tanks as they attempted to cross the border into the northern Yemeni provinces of Amran and Harf Sufyan. The Saudi military push towards Mount Mamdouh has failed, the Houthis said on Friday, adding that the late evening clashes destroyed three Saudi tanks and killed several soldiers. [...]

Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have killed a top army commander in northern Sa’ada province, where the fighters inflicted heavy losses on government forces. Brigadier General Amr Ali Mousa Al-Uuzali was killed in an ambush on Sunday, the office of the Houthis’ leader, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, said in a statement. The body of the commander [...]

The leader of Houthi fighters say they have captured hundreds of Yemeni soldiers and are prepared for a long war should the government fail to announce a ceasefire. In an interview with the Qatari Al-Arab newspaper, leader of Yemen’s Zaidi Shia resistance fighters Abdul Malik al-Houthi said on Wednesday that the six-week long offensive has [...]

Yemen prepares for a new round of military actions against the country’s Muslim Shia fighters to open a strategic road in the northern Saada province. The official Saba news agency cited a military source as claiming that the army had inflicted heavy losses on the Huthi fighters, and that the army managed to take control [...]

Yemeni army has killed 17 Muslim Shia fighters and destroyed several vehicles that were carrying aid to the fighters, the official Saba news agency reports. According to the agency, Yemeni troops killed 17 Zaidi local fighters and arrested four others in fighting late on Wednesday in the mountainous province of Saada, north of the country, [...]

As Yemen’s military offensive against Shia Muslim resistance fighters enters a fifth week, the army claims to have recaptured several Houthi positions in the north. The military said Wednesday that after two days of heavy fighting in Sadaa province that included air strikes, government troops managed to recapture the Jabal al-Ahmar district in south of [...]

As Yemen continues its military campaign against the Houthi fighters in the north, US President Barack Obama offers assistance to battle Shia Muslims. On Sunday, President Ali Abdullah Saleh received a letter from Obama, which pledged economic aid and assistance in fighting terrorism, the Yemeni SABA news agency reported. “The security of Yemen is vital [...]