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 [...]

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has accused the Houthis of violating a ceasefire in what appears to be a prelude to another military attack on the Muslim fighters. “The state has abstained from all military action, while knowing that the rebels are pursuing other plans, as advocates of war who do not want peace,” President [...]

Yemen’s Houthi fighters have released 200 captured army soldiers while the Muslim group is expected to extricate more prisoners as a good will gesture. A mediator between the Sana’a government and the Houthis reported the release of the forces that were captured on Monday, AFP reported on Wednesday. The soldiers in question were handed over [...]

Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters captured an army base and several soldiers on Monday in clashes with the army which killed 10 people, Houthis and government officials said. Houthis said that a number of soldiers had been taken hostage at the Zuala army base in the flashpoint north district of Harf Sufyan. Among those killed [...]

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 [...]

A spokesman for Yemen’s Hezbollahi Houthi fighters has called on the country’s government to release around 1,000 members of the Hezbollahi group. “There are around 1,000 men still being detained by authorities,” Muhammed Abdul-Salam said on Friday. “We urge the government to respect the ceasefire agreement and free all the detainees,” he added. The spokesman [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yemeni Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters have begun handing over the remaining Saudi soldiers they are holding to the committee in the northern town of Saada overseeing a fledgling ceasefire, a spokesman said on Thursday. “We have started to hand over the rest of the Saudi soldiers to the ceasefire committee in Saada,” Mohammed Abdul Salam [...]

Sana’a on Friday said the situation was back to normal in northern Yemen following a truce deal between the military and Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters. The ceasefire, which came in force on Thursday night (2100 GMT), put an end to a massive military offensive launched by the Yemeni army in August, which was later [...]

Yemen says it is close to a deal to end the six-month war with Yemen Hezbollah Movement Houthi fighters eventually after having refused previous peace offers. Citing a Yemeni official, AFP reported on Wednesday that the development comes “in the light of (Yemen Hezbollah Movement leader Abdul Malak) al-Houthi’s acceptance of the six conditions,” put [...]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected Saudi claims of Tehran’s interference in Yemen, urging Riyadh to revise its own policies regarding Sana’a rather than pointing fingers at others. The goings-on inside Yemen are its internal affairs and Iran calls on other countries to avoid interfering in the impoverished country, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast. [...]

The Yemeni Hezbollahi Movement Houthi fighters say they’ve broken an advance by Yemeni forces in the Harf Sufyan district in the country’s north. According to the fighters, two Yemeni military tanks were destroyed in the heavy clashes in the district. Yemeni ground forces bombarded the area with massive artillery and rocket fire, while Yemeni warplanes [...]

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 claim to have parried incursions by the army into their strongholds in the north, forcing government troops to retreat with their tanks ablaze. The Houthis said they repelled the Yemeni soldiers who stormed their position on Thursday in the border village of al-Jabiri, 966 kilometers (600 miles) from the Saudi capital, [...]

Yemen’s Houthi fighters say the Saudi Arabian army has launched a new incursion into the north of the war-wracked country, followed by massive missile fire. Tuesday’s Saudi advance led to a major battle that is still underway in the al-Dukhan region near the Saudi border, said Shia Houthi fighters in northern Yemen. The move came [...]

Saudi airstrikes have claimed the lives of at least 13 people in the north of Yemen, Yemen’s Houthi fighters have said. According to the Houthis, Saudi warplanes carried out 12 attacks the details of which are yet to be released. The raids come only a day after the Houthis said some four civilians were killed [...]