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Yemen’s former President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled house arrest by Houthi rebels and spent his final years in Saudi Arabia, has died, the Yemeni presidency said on Thursday. Three days of mourning, with lowered flags and condolence books, was declared to commemorate Hadi, who oversaw a tumultuous period when the Houthis seized large swathes…
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A separatist group in southern Yemen said Wednesday (January 7, 2026) that it was urgently trying to contact a delegation that travelled to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, for talks on de-escalating tensions between rival forces on the ground. Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council said a 50-member delegation arrived in Riyadh in the morning. One of its…
Saudi-backed troops on Saturday (January 3, 2026) made advances in Yemen’s resource-rich Hadramawt province, military officials said, as confrontations between forces backed by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi deepened a rift between the two Gulf allies. The Saudis and Emiratis have for years supported rival factions in Yemen’s fractious government. But a recent offensive by the…
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Yemen’s UAE-backed separatists announced a two-year transition to independence Friday (January 2, 2026)despite reporting 20 deaths in airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition trying to roll back their weeks-long offensive across the country’s south. A separatist military official and medical sources reported 20 fighters dead in air raids on two military bases as the coalition also…
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Thiruvananthapuram: Even as hectic diplomatic efforts are continuing to save Nimisha Priya, who is in jail in Yemen and sentenced to death, her husband was hoping for relief and his wife returning home. Tomy Thomas and their daughter expect that they will be able to prevail upon the family of Talal Abdo Mahdi to resolve…
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Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi: The mother of Nimisha Priya, a Kerala nurse sentenced to death in Yemen for the murder of a Yemeni national, has made an impassioned appeal for assistance to save her daughter’s life. Nimisha’s mother, Prema Kumari, 57, has been tirelessly campaigning to secure a waiver of the death penalty. Earlier this year, she…
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Zurich: The head of the World Health Organization said on Friday he was not sure he was going to survive an air strike on Yemen’s main airport carried out by Israel a day earlier during a series of attacks on the Iran-aligned Houthi movement. Speaking after his ordeal at the Sanaa International Airport on Thursday,…
According to Houthi rebels, an air strike hit Yemen’s capital on Friday. Sanaa: An air strike hit Yemen’s capital on Friday, a day after deadly Israeli raids, according to the Iran-backed Huthi rebels who blamed the US and Britain for the latest attack. A Huthi statement cited “US-British aggression” for the new attack, as witnesses…
Sanaa: Yemen’s Huthi rebels said Wednesday that they had fired a ballistic missile and two drones at Israel, days after an attack on Tel Aviv wounded 16 people. Israel’s military said it intercepted the missile and that one drone “fell in an open area” after sirens sounded in the country’s south, near the Gaza Strip….
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Few could have foreseen Bashar al-Assad’s dramatic ouster as 2024 drew to a close. For years, Syria’s battle lines had been frozen under a fragile ceasefire brokered by Russia and Turkey in 2020. Yet, Assad’s downfall—after his family’s iron grip over Syria for over five decades—has shaken the region to its core. Lina Khatib of…