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 [...]

Yemeni Houthi fighters denied on Friday Yemeni government accusations that the houthi fighters killed 11 people, including three policemen, in an attack on a convoy carrying food supplies for government forces in the north of the country. The Interior Ministry website said eight of those killed were pro-government tribesmen helping transport supplies to the centre [...]

Italy plans to propose further reinforcement of the Yemeni government by envisioning the formation of a group of countries called “Friends of Yemen. A spokesman said Friday Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini at an upcoming conference in London plans to suggest the formation of the group, the Italian news agency Ansa reported. Maurizio Massari said [...]

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says insecurity in Yemen is a regional and global threat, as the White House prepares the ground for a new war in the region. “The instability in Yemen is a threat to regional stability and even global stability,” Clinton told reporters following talks with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad [...]

The Houthi fighters in Yemen say Saudi warplanes have carried out several airstrikes on the country’s beleaguered northern areas, leaving a child dead. According to the fighters, the warplanes targeted more than 20 villages in Sa’ada province on Friday. The fighters also reported that they have repelled an incursion by Saudi troops in an area [...]

A US fighter jet has carried out multiple airstrikes on the home of a senior official in Yemen’s northern rugged province of Sa’ada, Houthi fighters say. The Yemen-based Houthi fighters say the warplane struck the home owned by the governor of Sa’ada province, Hassan Mohammad Manna in five blitzes. There were no reports on possible [...]

A spokesman for Yemen’s Houthi fighters has denied reports that the leader of the group Abdul Malik al-Houthi has been injured. He said that the Yemeni government is propagating such rumors to conceal its failures in its crackdown on the Houthi fighters. The spokesman stressed that the fighters’ leader is in a good health condition. [...]

Yemeni government allegedly benefited from US military equipment and intelligence support under the pretext of fighting “al-Qaeda” although the attacks have mostly killed civilians. The New York Times on Saturday quoted US officials as reporting the reinforcement which was approved by President Barack Obama after an alleged request by the Yemeni government. They said the [...]

Yemeni government has made a decision to close down an Iranian hospital and a clinic in the capital, Sana’a, citing “lack of transparency” in their accounts as the reason. “The interior ministry has decided to close the Iranian clinic and hospital because of lack of transparency of their accounts and… Iran’s financial support to these [...]

Yemeni fighters have accused Saudi Arabia of expanding the scope of its cross-border attacks into civilian areas far from the conflict zone. Speaking to Iran’s Arabic-language news channel al-Alam, Houthi fighters’ spokesman Mohammad Abdessalam said on Monday that Saudi fighter jets are pounding villages kilometers inside Yemeni territory — which are away from the conflict [...]

More than forty Yemeni Muslim fighters have been killed in the fresh Saudi Arabia’s air attacks on the northern Yemen fighters holding territory in the border region. The fighters were killed in the remote mountainous regions of Malahit and Maran in Saada province. The Saudi military said the attacks were in response to an earlier [...]

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi says Iran is ready to solve the ongoing crisis in Yemen. “Iran’s Foreign Ministry, in its contacts with the Yemeni government, has always voiced the country’s readiness to present an initiative necessary for ending the conflict (in Yemen),” Fars news agency quoted Vahidi as saying on Wednesday. “We [...]

As the Yemeni government intensifies its two-month offensive against Houthi fighters in the north, its forces suffer more and more casualties each day in the region. In a statement released on Sunday, the fighters said they caused heavy damage and losses on army forces in the Sa’ada province on Saturday. At least nine troops were [...]

The Shia Houthi combatants have taken control over a district bordering Saudi Arabia, as the military confrontation between Yemeni government and the northern fighters rages on. “People have now full control of the government compounds in the administrative district of Munabbih following raids on the buildings early on Thursday,” a statement released by Houthis said. [...]

As clashes intensify, Yemeni Zeidi Muslim fighters say they have seized a military base, army weapons and arrested 85 soldiers. The fighters led by Abdolmalek al-Houthi took control of the military base in Harf Sufian district of Amran province in northern Yemen, a website for Houthi fighters said in a statement. The statement also rejected [...]

Saana has rejected a plan to end the violence in Yemen proposed by the National Committee for Dialogue, calling on all citizens to stand by the government. A group of Yemeni lawmakers had proposed the “National Vision for Salvation” plan which called on the government to save the country from “collapsing” through “dialogue”, “cooperation” and [...]

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said the country is ready to help resolve Yemen’s problems peacefully. Iran believes continuous conflicts in Yemen are not beneficial to the country; therefore, it calls for political and peaceful settlement of the problems, he said. “Iran has always supported Yemeni nation and government in different situations,” he was [...]