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March 5th, 2018 - 08:49 GMT

Yemen Calls to Stop the Export of Iranian Weapons to Houthi Militia

The Yemeni government reiterated its call for the international community to join forces to stop the continued export of Iranian weapons to Houthi militia, Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya reported.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir enter a hall for a meeting in the Russian capital, Moscow, on August 11, 2015. (AFP)

April 26th, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

Saudi Foreign Minister: Assad has to leave

Yemeni children fill empty jerrycans with water from a donated source amid ongoing widespread disruption of water supplies in an impoverished coastal village on the outskirts of the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, on October 18, 2016. (AFP/Stringer)

October 19th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Yemen’s Saudi-backed government to resume aid to besieged city of Taiz

Yemenis inspect the site of a Daesh-claimed suicide car bombing on August 29, 2016. (AFP/Saleh Al-Obeidi)

August 30th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Update: Daesh suicide bombing in Yemen kills 45

Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi (C-back) delivers a speech to army commanders and local officials during a surprise visit to inspect troops in Yemen's loyalist-held eastern city of Marib, on July 10, 2016. (AFP/File)

July 17th, 2016 - 08:30 GMT

Peace talks resume in Yemen

United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. (AFP/Yasser Al-Zayyat)

May 24th, 2016 - 12:30 GMT

Yemen peace talks resume, switched to bilateral meetings

The aim of the talks is to bring peace between the Houthis and other groups affiliated with the former president Ali Abdallah Saleh on one side and the current president Hadi Mansour supported by Saudi Arabia on the other side. (AFP/File)

April 28th, 2016 - 07:56 GMT

Yemen peace negotiations resume in Kuwait

United Nations Special Envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (C) arrives to give a press conference at the Information ministry in Kuwait City on April 26, 2016. (AFP/Yasser al-Zayyat)

April 27th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

Yemen peace talks: Joint negotiations address continuing ceasefire

Yemenis extinguish fire at the scene of two suicide blasts which provoked the explosion of a motorbike in Dar Sad, north of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, on March 16, 2016. (Saleh al-Obeidi)

March 18th, 2016 - 11:00 GMT