Houthi fighters in Yemen have released 100 government soldiers and announced that more will be freed in the coming days. The latest batch of soldiers released had been held in the region of al-Amishiya in northern Amran province, Sheikh Hassan bin Abdullah al-Ahmar, a pro-government prominent tribal chief who helped mediate the prisoners’ release, said [...]

Houthi fighters have freed 100 soldiers and tribesmen loyal to the government they captured during clashes in the volatile north-west of the country a week ago. Houthi fighters seized an army check-post in the Harf Sufian district of Amran province last Monday and have been holding 228 military personnel and tribesmen captive since then. Those [...]

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 [...]

Fighting in mountainous north Yemen between Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters and the army and tribes loyal to the government over the past four days has left at least 49 people dead. The major confrontations were taking place in al-Amsheyah, in the northern Amran province, where the tribe of MP Sheikh Sagheer Aziz is allegedly [...]

The Yemeni government has reportedly dispatched army personnel and military equipment to the northern provinces, the scene of heavy fighting between the Yemen and Saudi armies with Hezbollahi fighters months ago. A military convoy, including 10 armored vehicles and ammunition, has been deployed to al-Jawf and Saada, Al-Alam has quoted local residents. Witnesses in al-Sufyan [...]

At least 40 people have lost their lives in four days of clashes between Yemen Hezbollah Movement fighters and members of an army-backed tribe in northern Yemen. “The confrontations between the Houthis and the supporters of the tribal chief Sheikh Sagheer Aziz have resulted in the death of 20 tribesmen and 10 Houthis,” AFP quoted [...]

Yemen is reportedly preparing for another round of armed offensives against the Houthi fighters, despite the ongoing truce. The Army is digging trenches, stretched from the capital of Sana’a to the Houthi stronghold of Sa’ada, the fighters said on their website on Saturday. The fighters warned that government forces stationed in the Alamsheep Bsvian region [...]

Yemen’s interior ministry says Houthi fighters have released four soldiers who had disappeared in the northern parts of the country several days ago. The ministry issued an official statement on Friday night, stating that Houthi fighters had handed the soldiers over to local mediators. Earlier this week, the Yemeni government accused Houthi fighters of abducting [...]

Yemen’s Hezbollah fighters have denied allegations that they had broken a ceasefire by opening fire on a government military airplane. “We are not responsible for any shot fired at a military airplane on Thursday morning, and we have not fired at any airplane since the beginning of the truce on February 12,” the Houthis said [...]

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh says the war with Houthi fighters in the north of the country is over. Saleh said a ceasefire with Houthi fighters had begun yesterday. “The war is over…” he told the Arabic al-Arabiya TV station on Friday. The announcement comes two days after Houthi fighters released 178 captured soldiers. Yemen’s [...]

Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh has called on the country’s Houthi fighters to enter into the county’s political arena by forming a party. Hailing an early February ceasefire reached with the Hezbollah fighters based in the beleaguered north, Saleh said the group could play a role in the country’s politics as a political party. The [...]

Yemen’s Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters say the central government has kept its siege over the capital of the northern province of Sa’ada. “The army continues to this moment to refuse to lift the siege on the city of Sa’ada,” the Houthis said on their website on Thursday, adding that the Yemeni soldiers were re-establishing military [...]

Houthi fighters in Yemen say they have withdrawn from an area near the Saudi border a day after they released a captive Saudi soldier as a good-will gesture to end a six-month war in north Yemen. “We withdrew today from the Manazla front in the Malahidh region, near the Saudi border, and more precisely from [...]

The Yemeni army has accused the Houthi fighters of breaking a ceasefire, only hours after it came into effect. The Houthis have killed three soldiers in Iqab and a fourth in Al-Ain district while some others have suffered injuries in the country’s north on Friday, claimed the head of military operations in Sa’ada province, General [...]

Saudi fighter jets have launched a new round of airstrikes on Houthi positions in northern Yemen despite a truce offer put forward by the Hezbollah fighters. According to a statement released by the fighters on Friday, Saudi warplanes carried out 33 airstrikes on the districts of Hinbah, Qatabir, Bani Maaz, Shada, Muhazat, al-Ammar and villages [...]

Twenty three Yemeni government soldiers have reportedly been killed by Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters in two separate incidents in northern Yemen. Fifteen Yemeni government troopers lost their lives in an ambush on a military supply convoy in the Wadi al-Jabara district, while the other 8 soldiers were killed in clashes in the city of [...]

At least fourteen civilians have been killed and dozens more have suffered injuries as Saudi fighter jets pounded the alleged strongholds of Hezbollahi Houthi fighters in northern parts of Yemen despite a truce offer put forth by the Hezbollahi fighters. According to a statement released by the fighters on Thursday, Saudi warplanes carried out 13 [...]

Saudi aerial and artillery attacks on northern Yemen have continued, despite a call for truce, in line with the terms of which Yemeni Hezbollahi fighters say they have withdrawn from their positions on the Saudi border. The Hezbollahi Houthi fighters said on their website that the Saudi army had pounded civilian homes in northern Yemen [...]

Pakistan has reportedly sent an army combat unit to Yemen to join the war against the Hezbollahi fighters in the country’s north. An informed source with the Pakistani daily Jang has said that a 300-strong unit of Special Forces has been deployed in Yemen. US media reports say the US military and intelligence agencies are [...]

Houthi fighters in Yemen say Saudi air raids continue to strike northern areas of the country even after their leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi called for a ceasefire with Riyadh. In a statement released by al-Houthi’s office, the fighters said Saudi warplanes carried out attacks on al-Maran region in north of the country. Several other civilians [...]