Tag Archives: Yemen

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Tuesday it has released 200 Houthi rebels to advance a UN-brokered deal aimed at ending the war in the Arab world’s poorest country. CBC | World News

Yemen’s Shia rebels on Sunday claimed they had launched a missile toward an under-construction nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates in the first such strike toward the country. CBC | World News

Saudi Arabia’s mission to the United Nations says the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shia rebels in Yemen will begin reopening airports and seaports in the Arab world’s poorest country. CBC | World News

The ballistic missile fired by Yemeni rebels that targeted the Saudi capital was from Iran and bore “Iranian markings,” the top U.S. Air Force official in the Mideast said Friday. CBC | World News

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen closed off the land, sea and air ports to the Arab world’s poorest country early Monday after a rebel-fired ballistic missile targeted Riyadh, blaming the launch on Iran and warning it could be “considered as an act of war.” CBC | World News

Masked militants set off a large car bomb outside a security headquarters in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden early Sunday, as a Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes on the rebel-held city of Sanaa. CBC | World News

Yemen is suffering through what UN representatives are calling “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.” Médecins Sans Frontières’ country director explains how he navigates a civil war and a major cholera outbreak while MSF’s own people come under fire. CBC | World News