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Yemen rebels, Saudis in back-channel talks to maintain truce
CAIRO ((DailyNews)) — Amid Yemen’s longest-ever pause in fighting — more than nine months — Saudi Arabia and its rival, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels,...
US Navy: 70 tons of missile fuel from Iran to Yemen seized
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates ((DailyNews)) — The U.S. Navy said Tuesday it found 70 tons of a missile fuel component hidden among bags of...
Children starve as Yemen teeters on a return to fighting
HAYS, Yemen ((DailyNews)) — An emaciated little girl lies motionless on a hospital bed and struggles to breathe. Her body is covered with sores....
Yemen’s warring sides fail to extend UN-backed truce
SANAA, Yemen ((DailyNews)) — Yemen’s warring sides have failed to reach an agreement to extend a nationwide cease-fire, the U.N. said Sunday, endangering the...
US Navy offers cash for tips to seize Mideast drugs, weapons
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates ((DailyNews)) — The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept...
In Yemen, child soldiering continues despite Houthi promise
CAIRO ((DailyNews)) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels are still recruiting children into their military ranks to fight in the country’s grinding civil war, despite an...
UN says Yemen’s warring parties agree to renew truce
CAIRO ((DailyNews)) — The United Nations said Thursday that Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to renew a nationwide truce for another two months. The...
Yemen war sides fail to operate 1st flight as part of truce
SANAA, Yemen ((DailyNews)) — Yemen’s warring parties failed to operate the first commercial flight in six years from the rebel-held capital on Sunday, dealing...
Yemen’s president steps aside amid efforts to end war
SANAA, Yemen ((DailyNews)) — Yemen’s exiled president stepped aside and transferred his powers to a presidential council Thursday, as international and regional efforts to...
UN says Yemen’s warring parties agree to 2-month truce
UNITED NATIONS ((DailyNews)) — Yemen’s warring sides have accepted a two-month truce, starting with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the U.N. envoy to...