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January will ‘almost certainly’ shatter records for civilian casualties in Yemen

New York: Violence in Yemen continues to escalate, raising casualties and spilling across the war-torn country’s borders, the Special Envoy for the country and the Humanitarian Coordinator warned on Tuesday. more

Nowhere is safe to hide in war-torn Yemen, say UN-appointed rights experts

New York, Sept 4 (JEN): The people of Yemen have been subject to “numerous” possible war crimes in recent years including forced recruitment of children and sexual abuse in de ...

Motorbike-riding gunman kills 2 Yemeni soldiers in Taiz

Aden, Yemen (Xinhua/UNI) Two Yemeni soldiers were shot dead by an unidentified gunman in the country's southwestern province of Taiz on Tuesday, a security official told Xinhua.

2 soldiers killed in attack on military police headquarters in Yemen's Taiz

Aden, Yemen (Xinhua/UNI) At least two Yemeni soldiers were killed on Tuesday in an armed attack on a military police headquarters in the southwestern province of Taiz, a government offici ...

Yemen war: UN-backed talks to silence the guns due to begin in Stockholm

New York: Hopes are high that the warring parties in Yemen will begin long-delayed consultations on Thursday over ending the conflict that has ravaged the Middle East nation for over thre ...

Evacuation of wounded Yemenis from rebel-held capital may bolster fresh peace talks

New York: A United Nations chartered aircraft has transported some fifty badly injured Yemenis from the capital Sana’a to hospitals in Muscat, the capital of Oman, for treatme ...

250,000 people ‘may lose everything - even their lives’ in assault on key Yemeni port city: UN humanitarian coordinator

New York: Any attack on the key port city of Hodeidah in Yemen “will impact hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians” and would entail around 250,000 civilians losing every ...

Nearly every child in war-torn Yemen now needs humanitarian aid – UNICEF

New York, Jan 17 (JEN): As the brutal conflict in Yemen nears its grim third anniversary, malnutrition and disease are running rampant in the country and virtually every child there ...

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