Yemen's Houthi rebels said Wednesday that they "regret" that Saudi Arabia has not given a "clear" reaction to their ceasefire offer, but said they were open to "any positive response".

Iran offered its support on Tuesday for a ceasefire plan put forward by rebels it backs in Yemen's war, saying it could be an "appropriate platform" for ending the conflict. The offer came a day after the insurgents fired on 16 targets inside Saudi Arabia.

US Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking will travel to the Gulf starting March 28 to continue leading U.S. diplomatic efforts to advance a durable resolution to the conflict in Yemen and bring immediate relief to the people of Yemen, US State Department said in a statement. Yemenis deserve a...

War-torn Yemen faces an "extremely troubling outlook" after a serious escalation between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia, the head of the United Nations Development Program warned on Sunday.

Yemen's Houthi rebels have proposed a ceasefire and peace talks to end the country's crippling war in return for opening the capital's airport and the key port of Hodeida, a senior Saudi official told AFP on Saturday. The Iran-backed rebels last week rejected an offer of talks in Riyadh.

Friday's attacks targeted ‘Aramco facilities in Jeddah and vital facilities in the capital of the Saudi enemy, Riyadh’, tweeted Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree. The Saudi Arabi-led coalition forces fighting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen confirmed the Jeddah attack.

Some 80 percent of Yemen's population of about 30 million people depends on aid for survival, after years of a conflict that has killed almost 380,000 people, directly or indirectly, according to the UN.

The world must not forget the millions of people in need across the Middle East and North Africa, UN chief Antonio Guterres told the Security Council.

Top crude exporter Saudi Arabia warned Monday that Yemeni rebel attacks on the kingdom's oil facilities pose a "direct threat" to global supplies. It urged the international community to "stand firm" against the Houthi insurgents.

Four of the six GCC members feature within the top 50 of the World Happiness Report, and are atop the rankings among the Arab countries.

Al-Hajraf said that the dialogue represents a platform to all Yemenis to end the dispute.

Yemen's Sira Fortress withstood attacks by the Portuguese and the Turks, but years of war have left the 11th century citadel in disrepair, defaced by graffiti and littered with rubbish.

The six-nation Gulf bloc said Thursday it seeks to host discussions between Yemen's warring sides in Saudi Arabia, despite the Houthi rebels' rejection of talks in "enemy countries". Saudi Arabia leads a military coalition fighting on the side of the Yemeni government against the Houthis. But the Iran-backed rebels said...

UAE lauded the UN Security Council's decision to list the Houthi militias as a terrorist organisation.

The ticket office has been abandoned at the entrance to the 19-hectare (47-acre) site in Yemen's southern city of Aden.

Gulf Arab countries are seeking to host rare talks between Yemen's warring parties, including the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, in Riyadh at the end of the month, officials said on Tuesday. Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, has been wracked by a devastating war since 2014, pitting the Houthis against the...

The number of people in war-torn Yemen starving in famine conditions is projected to increase five-fold this year to 161,000, UN agencies warned Monday, amid fears of a dire shortfall of life-saving aid.

From the UAE to Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain, and from the OIC to the Arab Parliament, the attack is being decried unequivocally.

Saudi energy ministry said the pre-dawn attack on the refinery in Riyadh caused a small fire that was brought under control. The ministry called the attack an act of "sabotage and terrorism".

The women were evacuated to the Saudi capital Riyadh, where they were met by US officials and received health checks.

Yemen's Huthi rebels have signed a UN agreement hoped to help stop a rusting oil tanker in the Red Sea becoming an ecological and humanitarian catastrophe, officials said Monday. The 45-year-old FSO Safer, long used as a floating oil storage platform with 1.1 million barrels of crude on board, has...

The UN Security Council voted Monday to extend to all of Yemen's Houthi rebels an arms embargo that until now targeted only some leaders of the guerrilla group. Yemen has been embroiled since 2014 in a civil war between the Iran-backed Houthis and the internationally recognized government supported by a...

Saudi Aramco, the oil company, will establish a coffee center in Jizan while using "advanced irrigation techniques to improve agricultural capacity".

A gas explosion in downtown Abu Dhabi prompted a warning of a possible attack early on Wednesday following a series of drone and missile assaults by Yemeni rebels.

Around 60,000 metric tons of diesel, which is the seventh shipment of the Saudi oil derivatives grant for Yemen, arrived in Aden, media reports said. The oil derivatives grant is provided by Saudi Arabia to Yemen under the Saudi Development and Reconstruction Program for Yemen (SDRPY) to fuel the monthly...

The UN's humanitarian coordinator for war-torn Yemen said he held constructive talks with government officials and Houthi rebels over dealing with the threat posed by a rusting oil tanker abandoned offshore.

The Giants Brigades was established in 2015 on Yemen's western coast after the Saudi-led coalition's intervention that same year.

The deployment, to "assist the UAE against the current threat", follows a phone call between Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. The UAE suffered its third missile attack in consecutive weeks on Monday.

The UAE Ministry of Defence gas confirmed there were no casualties resulting from the attack and the fragments of the ballistic missile fell outside of populated areas. It added that the UAE air defense forces and the Coalition Command had destroyed the apparatus in Yemen used to launch the missile.

Yemen's Houthi insurgents have shut down six radio stations in the capital Sanaa, the journalists' union said, with reporters saying the move came after broadcasters refused to air rebel propaganda.

In an annual report, a panel of UN experts said it had concluded that ‘all military and paramilitary forces loyal to the Sanaa-based authorities fall under this definition’ of having violated the arms embargo. The rebels control the capital Sanaa.

A UAE-trained militia said Saturday some of its fighters remained on the front lines in key Yemeni conflict zones as part of defensive measures after driving out the Houthi rebels.

Yemen's Houthi rebels were driven out of a key district by the United Arab Emirates-trained Giants Brigade, the militia said Tuesday, a day after the insurgents' latest missile attack on Abu Dhabi.

The UAE air defense forces have intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles targeting the country, the Ministry of Defense announced on Monday. On the other hand, Houthi ballistic missiles fell on some car workshops in the Ahad Al-Masarihah governorate in the Jazan region of Saudi Arabia.

The US navy said Sunday it had stopped a ship carrying 40 tons of a fertilizer that can be used to make explosives as it traveled from Iran along a route previously used to smuggle weapons to Yemen's Houthi rebels.

The spokesman of Saudi led coalition also said the facility was not on the OCHA no-target list.

Eleven people were killed in air strikes on Yemen's rebel-held capital, a witness and medical sources told AFP on Tuesday, as the Saudi-led coalition hit back after a deadly attack on Abu Dhabi.

The United Arab Emirates of which Abu Dhabi is the capital is part of a Riyadh-led military coalition that supports Yemen's government against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have repeatedly targeted Saudi Arabia with cross-border strikes.

The Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) has stressed on the significance of the Palestinian cause and flayed the attempts of some agencies to block the information related to the issue. FANA approved a memo on dealing with global platforms on the conclusion of its 48th General Assembly on Wednesday,...

The pro-government Giants Brigade, who are backed by the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates, announced in a statement the "liberation of the district of Ain"

The coalition said the rebels are using two Red Sea ports for military purposes, after the Huthis seized an Emirati-flagged vessel.

The latest exchange of insults follows a crisis between Lebanon and Gulf Arab states over the war in Yemen.

After more than six years of the conflict in Yemen, it remains the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, with over 20 million people in need of aid.

Jordan and Saudi foreign ministers Monday held talks in Amman on increasing cooperation between Jordan and Saudi Arabia and coordination on regional crises. The meeting underscored the Jordan-Saudi "strategic" ties and emphasised the importance of the institutionalisation of bilateral cooperation on investment, development and environment.

Flights into the rebel-held capital Sanaa have been largely halted by a blockade since August 2016, but there have been exemptions for aid flights. However, Sanaa airport was closed for several days in December after the Saudi-led coalition pounded it with airstrikes.

King Salman said, ‘We hope (Iran) changes its policy and negative behavior in the region, and it heads towards dialogue and cooperation. We are following with great concern the Iranian regime's destabilizing policy to security and safety in the region.’

It is also meant to provide basic building materials for temporary shelters, to rehabilitate and improve sites' and water sources infrastructure

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Sunday it struck a Huthi rebel camp in the capital Sanaa, as it intensified an aerial bombing campaign against the Iran-backed insurgents. The coalition, which backs Yemen's internationally recognized government against the Huthis in a civil war, said it destroyed weapons storehouses in...

Iran's envoy to Yemen, Hassan Eyrlou, died on Tuesday despite being flown out from the Huthi rebel-held capital in a rare exemption from a Saudi-led air blockade. Tehran blamed the "slow cooperation of certain countries" in facilitating Saturday's evacuation for Eyrlou's death.  

Yemen has been devastated by a civil war between the Saudi-backed government and Iran-backed Huthi rebels since 2014.