The expected breakthrough coincided with a visit to the Gulf by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has spearheaded international efforts to help Lebanon out of its worst ever economic crisis. Macron started his two-day tour in Abu Dhabi but was also due to visit Qatar, which Michel Aoun also visited...

More than 45,000 people have been displaced by the fierce fighting in Marib province in the past two months.

Tens of thousands of migrants are stuck in Yemen, unable to pay for a return trip, held hostage by smugglers or detained by local authorities.

Ankara on Friday banned citizens of Syria, Iraq and Yemen from flying from Turkish airports to Belarus because of the refugee crisis at the former Soviet country's border with Poland.

Yemen is facing an "uphill battle" for peace, UN special envoy Hans Grundberg said on Monday, as the Saudi-led coalition reported another 115 Huthi rebels killed in its latest air strikes around a key northern city.

Entisar al-Hammadi, 20, was arrested in February at a checkpoint while on her way to a photoshoot in the capital Sanaa.

The government is breaking at the seams over a series of disputes involving a probe into last year's monster port blast, and remarks by Information Minister George Kordahi over the Yemen war that sparked reprisals from Saudi Arabia and its allies.

In a statement issued Monday, the Arab Parliament expressed its rejection of the statements of the Lebanese Minister of Information who had criticized Saudi role.

The developments, sparked by Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi's remarks on the Yemen war, have dealt a fresh blow to crisis-hit Lebanon, where a fragile government is struggling to secure international aid, including from wealthy Arab countries.

The move came a day after recalling its diplomats from Beirut over a Lebanese minister George Kordahi's remarks that Iran-backed Huthi rebels in Yemen were "defending themselves... against an external aggression", sparking a diplomatic row.

This is bad news for Lebanon, which had been counting on financial assistance from the Gulf to rescue its economy. Now, its ties have soured with four countries in the neighborhood because of comments made by its Information Minister George Kordahi.

Kuwait has recalled its ambassador from Beirut and has given the Lebanese envoy 48 hours to leave the emirate, the foreign ministry said Saturday, quoted by state news agency KUNA.

Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi had said the Iran-backed Huthi rebels are "defending themselves... against an external aggression" and "homes, villages, funerals and weddings were being bombed" by the coalition.

In Yemen's easternmost province, far from the front lines of the war that has devastated the country, the lush greenery of the Hawf nature reserve offers a rare respite.

Rebel leader Abdelmalek al-Huthi called for continued fighting, as tens of thousands of supporters marched in towns held by the insurgents. It came a day after the Huthis announced on Twitter that they had advanced on several fronts around Marib, including Abdiya, where the coalition says it is pounding the...

Egypt and Algeria have the largest number of Nobel winners in the Arab world, while Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE are yet to produce one.

The security situation has been particularly difficult in Marib's Abdiya district, where the UN says the movement of aid and some 35,000 people has been "extremely restricted", including for 17,000 "extremely vulnerable" people.

The United Arab Emirates is followed by Qatar (60), Kuwait (61), Bahrain (69) and Oman (71) on the Henley Passport Index that covers 227 travel destinations.

Biden, shortly after taking office in January, said the United States would slash US support for the Saudi-led offensive in Yemen that has contributed to what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than half the population reliant on aid.

The United States promised an additional $290 million but said the ultimate solution was to end the war

Amina Mahdi had already been teaching children to read and write before the outbreak of the impoverished country's devastating war in 2014.

Around 80 percent of its 30 million people depend on international relief and aid groups complain of financing shortfalls.

Analysts say the balance has tilted in favour of the Huthi rebels against the Saudi-led military coalition

Yemen is desperately short of Covid vaccines to inoculate its population, with as little as one percent of its population having received shots.

Medics said they received seven bodies and treated more than 50 people injured in the attack on Al-Anad air base

Alongside a grinding seven-year military conflict, Yemen's government and the Huthi rebels are locked in battle on another front -- a currency war. Both the government and the Iran-backed Huthis used the same notes until late 2019 when the rebels banned new banknotes printed in government-run Aden, due to concerns...

Yemen's conflict flared in 2014 when Iran-backed Huthi rebels seized the capital Sanaa

The procedure to separate her took seven hours and 45 minutes and involved a team of 25 medical staff including doctors, technicians and nurses.

The Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, according to the minister, are hotbeds of human trafficking, sexual abuse of women, wrongful incarceration, and crimes against children.

The US has issued a swift condemnation of the latest Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia with a ballistic missile and three explosive-laden drones. It has called on Houthis to end the attacks.

In a big setback to the Iran-backed militia, one of its top commanders, Brigadier Hamer Yahiya, who was the military chief of staff of the capital’s Hamdan district, was killed in fighting.

The World Food Program has it needs at least $1.9 billion this year alone to prevent famine in Yemen

From prosthetics to financial support, the Saudi aid center in Yemen has been critical to the welfare of ordinary citizens

Some 26 Colombians have been accused of taking part in the pre-dawn murder of president Jovenel Moise Participation of Colombian mercenaries highlights the lucrative transnational mercenary market Some fight in Yemen or Afghanistan, others guard oil pipelines in the United Arab Emirates; and yet more turned up in Haiti this...

The kingdom backs efforts to reach a comprehensive political solution to end the crisis in the war-scarred country It reiterated its commitment to help the government in Yemen   Saudi Arabia has said that while it endorses all efforts at reaching a political settlement to end the crisis in Yemen,...

OIC condemns the militia's unending attacks as terrorism Iran accused of providing rockets and missiles to Houthis Saudi air defenses shot down a Houthi drone close to the kingdom’s border in the southern city of Khamis Mushait, according to the Arab Coalition command. In a statement released on Saturday, the...

Yemen is plagued by conflict that started with Houthi insurgence Some 80 percent of Yemenis are dependent on aid To cope with a worsening humanitarian crisis in the country, Yemen would receive $150 million in aid from the World Bank to shore up the war-scarred country’s basic healthcare, nutrition, and...

Rebels are seeking to seize control of Marib and its surrounding oil fields Fresh fighting comes after a diplomatic push by the UN and other failed Renewed battles between government forces and Huthi rebels over the strategic city of Marib in northern Yemen have left 47 dead, including 16 pro-government...

WFP data say 41 million people faced hunger in 20201 Half a million food insecurity cases living in conditions akin to 'starvation' in the Middle East and Africa The World Food Programme (WFP)  has reported that half a million food insecurity cases are living in conditions we56akin to “starvation” in...

Omani mediators appear to be convincing the Huthis to accept a ceasefire and take part in peace negotiations