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Capital

Sana'a

Head of State

President Rashad al-Alimi

Head of Government

Prime Minister Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak

People protect themselves as they stand next to a wall in Jerusalem, Israel on Thursday as sirens goes off indicating a missile attack from Yemen. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israeli military says it intercepts 2 missiles launched from Yemen

Israeli said it also downed a missile launched from Yemen earlier in the day after sirens blared in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

21 Mar 2025 - 7:36AM

US-Iran tensions

US slaps Iran-related sanctions on oil tankers, Chinese ‘teapot’ refinery

21 Mar 2025 - 12:48AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu says strikes on Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

19 Mar 2025 - 8:05PMvideocam

Middle East

Trump threatens Iran with ‘dire’ consequences over Houthi attacks

Trump’s warning escalates his administration’s new campaign of air strikes targeting the Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.

18 Mar 2025 - 2:28PM

US President Donald Trump watching military operations on a screen. Photo: White House via Reuters

Middle East

Houthis claim attacks on aircraft carrier group after US strikes in Yemen

The United States has vowed ‘unrelenting’ strikes on the Houthis over Red Sea attacks.

17 Mar 2025 - 5:19PMvideocam

United States

Video | US strikes hit Houthis in Yemen

The White House said multiple Houthi leaders died during the air strikes and has warned Iran to stop backing the rebel group

17 Mar 2025 - 12:51PM

Israel-Gaza war

US strikes hit Yemen’s Houthis as Trump threatens ‘lethal force’

The White House said multiple Houthi leaders died during Saturday’s air strikes, and warned Iran to stop backing the rebel group.

17 Mar 2025 - 5:22AMvideocam

People gather on Sunday by the rubble of a house in Yemen hit by a US strike. Photo: Reuters

Iran

US targets 41 countries for travel curbs ranging from Iran to Pakistan: memo

The countries are divided into three separate groups with varying degrees of travel restrictions, according to an internal memo.

15 Mar 2025 - 11:17AM

Middle East

Yemen’s Houthis say ‘any Israeli vessel’ in nearby waterways again a target

Renewed threat to shipping ends a period of relative calm that started in January with the Gaza ceasefire.

12 Mar 2025 - 12:50PM

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu thanks Trump for weapons to ‘finish the job’ against Iran axis

Israeli prime minister says Trump ‘is the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House’.

3 Mar 2025 - 11:11AM

US President Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on February 4. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

‘Open the gates of hell’: US and Israel present united front on Gaza and Iran

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio endorses Israel’s war aims in Gaza, says Hamas must be eliminated.

17 Feb 2025 - 3:29PMvideocam

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday. Photo: AFP

Middle East

Hong Kong-flagged ship drifts abandoned in Red Sea after explosion

An official described the cargo aboard the ASL Bauhinia container ship as ‘dangerous’. The cause of the fire was not immediately clear.

29 Jan 2025 - 10:46AMvideocam

The Philippines

17 Filipinos, 8 other crew of seized ship freed after 14 months in captivity

The rebels hijacked the Israeli-linked vessel in November 2023 to express solidarity with Gaza.

23 Jan 2025 - 9:59AMvideocam

India

Indian nurse’s death sentence in Yemen spotlights migrant workers’ woes

Nimisha Priya’s claims of passport confiscation among ‘problematic practices’ experienced by migrant workers in the Middle East, analysts say.

10 Jan 2025 - 8:43PMvideocam

Nimisha Priya, who travelled to Yemen from Southern India’s Kerala in 2008 to look for a nursing job, was found guilty of murdering her business partner in a clinic, a Yemeni man named Talal Abdo Mahdi, in 2020. Photo: Handout

United States

US moves 11 Guantanamo detainees to Oman after more than 2 decades without charge

Transfer of men leaves 15 people still held at the controversial American base in Cuba.

7 Jan 2025 - 12:16PM

At one point, almost 800 people were held at the facility. File photo: TNS

Middle East

Israeli military says missile from Yemen intercepted

The missile interception comes only days after an attempted missile and drone strike by the Houthis on Israel.

11 Jan 2025 - 11:17AM

Middle East

Israel, at UN, warns Houthis risk sharing same fate as Hamas, Hezbollah

Israel says it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, following a ‘final warning’ to Houthis to halt attacks.

31 Dec 2024 - 3:13PM

Israel-Gaza war

Israel detains director of one of Gaza’s last functioning hospitals during raid

Gaza’s health ministry said Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, was arrested on Friday along with dozens of other staff.

29 Dec 2024 - 5:46AM

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital, shows the damage inside the hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza on December 18. On Saturday, Gaza’s health ministry said Abu Safiya had been arrested by Israeli soldiers on Friday. Photo: Reuters

Middle East

WHO chief says he escaped death in Israeli strikes on Yemen airport

The head of the World Health Organization said he narrowly escaped death in fatal Israeli strikes on the airport in Houthi rebel-held Sanaa.

28 Dec 2024 - 9:03PM

Israel-Gaza war

3 dead in Israeli strikes on Yemen’s airport, ports and power stations

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he was metres away from strike on airport.

27 Dec 2024 - 4:02AM

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu vows to act with ‘force, determination’ against Yemen’s Houthis

Israeli prime minister makes statement a day after a missile fired from Yemen fell in the Tel Aviv area, injuring 16 people.

23 Dec 2024 - 12:13PM

The scene of a missile strike that, according to Israel’s military, was launched from Yemen and landed in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv. Photo: Reuters

Middle East

2 US Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in apparent ‘friendly fire’ incident

The US Navy is investigating the cause of the accident which saw a two-seater F/A-18 Super Hornet shot down over the Red Sea.

22 Dec 2024 - 12:38PM

A fighter jet maneuvers on the deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. The US Navy says an F-18 Super Hornet was shot down in an apparent “friendly fire” incident over the Red Sea. File photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel-Gaza war: rocket from Yemen strikes Tel Aviv, injures 16

The strike comes days after Israeli air strikes hit Houthi rebels launched missiles in solidarity with Palestinians.

21 Dec 2024 - 10:19PM

Middle East

Israeli strikes hit Yemen’s capital and port city after Houthi missile intercepted

Strikes targeted power stations and an oil terminal in Yemen after a Houthi missile was launched at Israel.

19 Dec 2024 - 4:56PMvideocam

Middle East

Israel strikes ‘chemical weapons’ in Syria after Assad’s fall

The move comes as Israel seeks to establish a buffer zone along its border with Syria, raising tensions in the region.

9 Dec 2024 - 11:47PMvideocam

Israeli troops move on the Syrian side of the border near the Druze village of Majdal Shams, in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, on December 9. Photo: EPA-EFE

Israel-Gaza war

Video | Violence at sea: how armed attacks on the high seas affect mariners

Attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea as well as tensions in international waters are increasingly affecting global shipping.

8 Dec 2024 - 11:30AMvideocam

Violence at sea: how armed attacks on the high seas affect mariners

Middle East

Saudi Arabia executes more than 100 foreigners in 2024

The latest execution was of a Yemeni national convicted of smuggling drugs, after a three-year moratorium on executing drug offenders ended in 2022.

19 Nov 2024 - 11:15AM

Middle East

Yemeni soldier kills 2 Saudi troops in rare insider attack amid US strikes

A soldier for Yemen’s exiled government opened fire on Saudi troops, killing two and wounding another, amid US air strikes around Sana’a.

11 Nov 2024 - 12:27AMvideocam

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