The United Arab Emirates on Monday downplayed a rift with ally Saudi Arabia over Yemen after separatists it backs took control of Aden that was the base of the Saudi-backed government, Reuters reports.

Saudi Arabia says it intercepted two drones launched by Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels targeting the kingdom.

AN SNP MP has told MPs that the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is one of the greatest tragedies of our time and that the UK cannot ignore its role in it.

The interception comes several days after a similar incident when the Saudi Press Agency reported blocking of two drones launched by Houthi rebels toward a city near Yemen border.

The Trump administration threatened on Monday to veto an effort in the U.S. Congress to end U.S.

Amnesty International accused the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday of diverting arms supplied by Western and other states to “unaccountable militias accused of war crimes” in Yemen, Reuters reports.

At least six people were killed and 20 injured late Monday in a bomb attack in southeastern Yemen, Anadolu reports.

The head of a UN team monitoring the UN-backed cease-fire in Yemen’s Hodeidah arrives on Saturday in the rebel-held capital Sanaa to resume his mission, Houthi-controlled Saba news agency reported.

The head of a UN team monitoring the UN-backed cease-fire in Yemen’s Hodeidah arrives on Saturday in the rebel-held capital Sanaa to resume his mission, Houthi-controlled Saba news agency reported.

The UN Security Council is expected on Wednesday to approve an expanded ceasefire monitoring mission in Hodeidah, to try and ensure Yemen’s warring parties stick to a plan agreed on last month to de-escalate the country’s war.

The head of a UN team monitoring the UN-backed cease-fire in Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah arrived on Sunday in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa.

Over three years and a half since the start of the Saudi-led invasion of Yemen and after intensive talks under the UN supervision, a preliminary truce deal was reached between rival Yemeni camps.

While apparently trying to put a political pressure behind the diplomatic process of solving the Yemen crisis, the Americans are in fact still supporting the Saudi invasion to the poor Arab country. Referring to this issue, the Iranian supreme leader clarifies that the US is complicit in the Saudi crimes in Yemen.

A Saudi-UAE coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthi movement says 50 wounded fighters will be evacuated for treatment to Oman’s Muscat in a plane belonging to the United Nations.

The conflict in Yemen has forced over a third of all schools there to close, with 15 located on the frontline and others badly damaged or being used as shelters for displaced families, a UNICEF official said.

THE SNP has called for UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia to end following revelations that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) knew of hundreds of alleged humanitarian law breaches in Yemen by the regime.