Deadly strike hits market in Yemenโs Taiz
A strike on a market in the Yemeni city of Taiz has killed at least seven people and wounded 40.
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A strike on a market in the Yemeni city of Taiz has killed at least seven people and wounded 40.
Flaring fighting between government forces and Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen has displaced more than 100,000 people inside the country, while thousands more have fled abroad, the United Nations said Tuesday.
The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemenโs Houthis accused the rebels on Wednesday of targeting Islamโs holy city Mecca, sparking outrage across the Muslim world and deepening the conflict roiling the region. Fresh fighting between the Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi-backed Yemeni government has dragged in Riyadh, with the Houthis declaring a maritime blockade on the kingdom and targeting its ships in the Red Sea. Last weekโs lightning offensive saw the group seize control of the entirety of Yemenโs...
Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Jules Grange Gastinel, Researcher at the Institute for Research and Studies on the Arab and Muslim World (IREMAM). He depicts Yemen as moving from a prolonged condition of unresolved conflict into renewed regional confrontation. The relative calm established after 2022, he argues, never amounted to a durable political settlement: Yemen remains divided between rival political, financial and military institutions.ย
A battle for control of Yemenโs coastal plains overlooking the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait, launched on Friday by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, is rapidly intensifying into an all-out war with Saudi-backed government forces. A wave of Houthi missile and drone strikes launched against four cities in southern Saudi Arabia early on Tuesday, injuring 73 civilians, may prove to be the tipping point in the conflict, analysts say. Coinciding with an escalating battle of attrition between the United...
Military sources in Yemen say more than 140 combatants were killed in fighting between its government and Houthi rebels in the southwest of the country over the weekend. Days-long clashes have erupted in the country over the control of a gateway to the Red Sea, marking the deadliest fighting in the Arabian Peninsula country since a 2022 ceasefire between the two sides collapsed in July.