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Capital

Sana'a

Head of State

President Rashad al-Alimi

Head of Government

Prime Minister Ahmad Awad bin Mubarak

A Yemeni man inspects the damage in the Al-Rasul Al-Aazam cancer and oncology hospital’s unfinished building, a day after it was hit in a US strike in Yemen’s northern Saada province on March 25. Photo: AFP

United States

Trump rages against ‘witch hunt’ amid fallout over Yemen attack plan leak

US president defends his Pentagon chief in ‘Signalgate’ scandal, and insists that no classified information was shared in breach.

27 Mar 2025 - 3:55PM

United States

Trump’s top diplomat says adding journalist to war chat was ‘big mistake’

27 Mar 2025 - 4:36AMvideocam

United States

Atlantic releases entire Signal chat showing US attack plans against Houthis

27 Mar 2025 - 12:28PMvideocam

United States

‘Scary, reckless’: US allies alarmed by leaked group chat about war plans

The incident is seen as a major security breach that casts doubt on intelligence-sharing and the security of joint operations with the US.

26 Mar 2025 - 5:31AMvideocam

Demonstrator Gary Rush holds a placard depicting US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth as US intelligence chiefs appeared before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington on Tuesday. Photo: Reuters

US-China relations

Signal chat furore may push US workers to China’s side, Democrat warns

Senate intelligence committee vice chair says China is ‘luring individuals with national security clearance who’ve been pushed out’.

26 Mar 2025 - 1:40PMvideocam

United States

US texts reveal disdain for ‘freeloading’ Europe amid Yemen strikes planning

Messages between Vance and Hegseth highlight how they believe European allies were ‘freeloading’ off US efforts to hit the Houthis.

25 Mar 2025 - 5:58PMvideocam

United States

Trump officials texted secret Yemen war plans to journalist

Editor-in-chief of The Atlantic received US plan for Yemen strikes after being added to a group chat on Signal app.

25 Mar 2025 - 9:52PMvideocam

A woman walks on debris at the site of a US strike in Sanaa, Yemen on March 24. 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

China is largest importer of Iranian oil and ‘teapot’ refiners are private Chinese refineries that are primary buyers of Iranian oil.

21 Mar 2025 - 12:48AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

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

Israeli strikes killed more than 400 and shattered months of relative calm in Gaza since ceasefire began.

19 Mar 2025 - 8:05PMvideocam

A Palestinian man weeps next to a truck carrying the bodies of the victims of overnight Israeli strikes in northern Gaza on Tuesday. Photo: AFP

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

Protesters hold signs in New York against US President Donald Trump’s limited travel ban in 2017. Photo: Reuters

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

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

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General. Photo: Reuters

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

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