Yemen

19 Sep 2022; MEMO: The armed Houthi group in Yemen on Sunday claimed that it had rejected the Saudi proposal to exchange its prisoners with Saudi prisoners, Head of the National Committee for Houthi Prisoners Abdul Qader Al-Murtada confirmed.

"Aggression forces [Saudi-led Arab alliance] seek the release of Saudi prisoners along with mercenary leaders in return for a group of our prisoners, and to postpone other issues to a future stage," Murtada told Saba News Agency.

ADEN, Yemen, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- Two Yemeni soldiers were killed on Saturday in a roadside bomb explosion in the country's southern oil-rich province of Shabwa, a military official told Xinhua.

The incident took place when a roadside bomb went off near a patrol of Shabwa's defense troops of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Ataq, capital of Shabwa Province, the local military source said on condition of anonymity.

The blast partially destroyed the military vehicle, killing two soldiers, and wounding five others aboard, the source said.

ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Houthi rebel militia killed seven members of Yemen's government forces and injured another eight in the country's southwestern province of Taiz on Monday, a military source told Xinhua.

"The Houthi rebels launched an attack against a government-controlled area in Taiz, sparking intense armed confrontations that continued for hours," the source said on condition of anonymity.

16 August 2022; MEMO: Drones believed to belong to the UAE targeted Yemen army posts in the Shabwa governorate in the east of the country on Monday, local sources and activists have reported.

One anonymous source told Arabi 21 that the UAE's bombing of government forces paved the way for militias loyal to Abu Dhabi to expand their area of control towards the international highway linking the Shabwa and Hadhramout governorates from the south, and Marib from the north.

ADEN, Aug 15 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s internationally-recognised government, announced yesterday that, four of its soldiers were killed by the Houthi rebel militia, despite the ongoing truce, brokered by the United Nations(UN) in the war-ravaged country.

According to a statement released by the Aden-based government, the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, committed 235 violations of the UN armistice in eight provinces, in the past three days.

ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) -- Tension between units of the Yemeni government forces flared up on Friday as the newly-formed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) insisted on removing rebellious security officers from their positions in the oil-rich province of Shabwa, an official told Xinhua.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Torrential rains across southwestern Yemen and the country’s capital of Sanaa have triggered flashfloods and collapsed homes, killing at least 38 people over the past two days, officials said Thursday.

Scores of homes in Sanaa and the provinces of Dhamar and Ibb have completely collapsed or have been significantly damaged, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

04 August 2022; MEMO: An official in Yemen's Houthi-led government has claimed that the Saudi-led coalition and their proxies have "looted" more than $13 billion in Yemeni oil revenues between 2016 and 2021.

ADEN, Aug 3 (NNN-YPA) – The United Nations announced yesterday that, Yemen’s internationally-recognised government and the Houthi militia, have agreed to renew the ongoing nationwide truce for another two months.

“I am pleased to announce that the parties have agreed to extend the truce, under the same terms, for an additional two months from Aug 2 until Oct 2,” UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg said, in a written statement released on the UN website.

02 August 2022; MEMO: Yemen's warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the United Nations Envoy said, despite international pressure for an extended and expanded deal that would build on the longest stretch of relative calm in over seven years, Reuters reports.

"This truce extension includes a commitment from the parties to intensify negotiations to reach an expanded truce agreement as soon as possible," Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, said in a statement.