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Yemen

Yemen is a country on the Arabian Peninsula — the second largest country there after Saudi Arabia, and also the poorest. Since 2014, Yemen has been wracked by civil war.

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Smoke and dust rise near buildings from air strikes launched by Saudi-led coalition on Sanaa

'Saudi Arabia has lost the war in Yemen'

The Saudi government has presented a proposal to end Yemen's war. That doesn't mean an end to the conflict.
ConflictsMarch 25, 2021
Two boys carrying a coffin of a child on their shoulders in Saada, Yemen

Yemen: Children make up a quarter of civilian casualties

More than 2,300 children have been caught in the crossfire in Yemen over the past three years, says Save the Children.
PoliticsMarch 23, 2021
Aerial view of the southern Yemeni city Aden.

Yemen: Protesters storm Aden presidential palace

Protesters reportedly withdrew peacefully from the palace after negotiations with the police.
PoliticsMarch 16, 2021
Jemen Explosionen in Sanaa

US to resume aid to northern Yemen

The US will "cautiously resume" support and monitor to make sure the Houthis aren't interfering with the aid. 
PoliticsMarch 13, 2021
World Press Photo of the Year 2020

World Press Photo Award: Looking back on 2020 with the year’s best photos

The nominees of the 64th edition of the award reflect a difficult year amid a global pandemic.
SocietyMarch 11, 202113 images
Smoke billows from the site of Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen

Yemen: Several killed in migrant detention center fire

People seeking to find work in oil-rich Gulf states have been killed in a fire at a Yemeni migrant detention cent
CatastropheMarch 7, 2021
Yemen's Houthi rebels

Saudi coalition strikes Houthi rebels in Yemen

The renewed fighting could hamper US President Joe Biden's efforts to broker an end to the six-year conflict
PoliticsMarch 7, 2021
A girl sits as other children play on swings at a camp for internally displaced people in Marib, Yemen

Yemen: UN donor conference raises 'disappointing' funds

The amount pledged at the UN donor conference for Yemen ended up being less than half of what was targeted.
ConflictsMarch 1, 2021
Anti-government protesters in Yemen in July 2011

New hopes sprout in Yemen 10 years after its uprising

Yemen's Arab Spring uprising led to a raging civil war. Will the US's halt on arms sales and new envoy help bring peace?
PoliticsFebruary 10, 2021
Display of an Iranian Qasef-1 drone which was fired by Houthi rebels into Saudi Arabia in 2017

Saudi Arabia intercepts armed drone from Yemen

Houthi rebels have reportedly launched a cross-border attack on Saudi Arabia.
PoliticsFebruary 7, 2021
A makeshift camp for Yemenis who were displaced by fighting between Houthi rebels and the Saudi-back government

Yemen: US set to revoke Houthi 'terrorist' label

US President Joe Biden has reversed another much-criticized Trump policy, accused of worsening the humanitarian crisis.
PoliticsFebruary 6, 2021
A Palestinian health worker holds a vial of COVID-19 vaccine.

Vaccines as 'biological warfare'?

Groups in the Middle East are using vaccines for their own ends, blocking it or distributing it to allies only.
PoliticsFebruary 5, 2021
US President Joe Biden

US: Biden outlines immediate foreign policy goals

Biden outlined his foreign policy priorities, from Myanmar to Moscow, via US military bases in Germany.
PoliticsFebruary 5, 2021
US President Joe Biden

US President Biden halts support for Saudi strikes on Yemen

The White House says it will push for a peaceful end to the six-year conflict.
ConflictsFebruary 4, 2021
USA Fort Lauderdale Air Show 2020 | F-35 Lightning II

Biden halts arms sales to UAE and Saudi Arabia

The move will put a temporary stop to billions of dollars worth of last-minute arms deals by the Trump administration.
PoliticsJanuary 28, 2021
The skyline of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: Explosion shakes Riyadh

Witnesses have reported hearing a loud explosion over Riyadh, three days after a missile was intercepted.
SocietyJanuary 26, 2021
Medics treating a baby at Sabeen Hospital as a woman looks on

Aid groups urge US to revoke stance on Houthi rebels

The US move to label the Iran-backed Houthis as terror group put "millions of lives at risk," activists say.
PoliticsJanuary 24, 2021
A Yemeni boy receives humanitarian aid, donated by the World Food Programme (WFP), in the country's third city of Taez

Will US Middle East policy be reversed?

Last-minute foreign policy moves by Donald Trump have been heavily criticized. How quickly can they be rolled back?
PoliticsJanuary 18, 2021
Yemen Houthi rebels

Drop Yemen's Houthi terrorist label, UN chief to urge US

Recently US Secretary of State Pompeo announced plans to designate Yemen's Houthi rebels as a foreign terrorist group.
ConflictsJanuary 14, 2021
Tribesmen loyal to Houthi rebels hold their weapons as they attend a gathering against the agreement

US to list Yemen's Houthi rebels as 'terrorist organization'

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he will designate Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels as a terror group.
ConflictsJanuary 11, 2021
Iraqi fire fighters try to extinguish oil wells set on fire near Mosul by the extremist IS group as it fled the area

Investigating eco-crimes with Facebook

Open-source data helped track war crimes in Syria. Now it's being used for environmental crime in Yemen and Iraq.
Nature and EnvironmentJanuary 10, 2021
A Leopard 2A7 fighting vehicle

Germany approves over €1 billion in arms deals

The government signed off on weapons exports to countries involved in the deadly conflicts in Yemen and Libya.
ConflictsJanuary 3, 2021
Riyadh and regional Arab allies accused the Houthi movement of staging Wednesday's attacks

Yemeni capital Sanaa hit by air strikes

The warplanes struck targets in Sanaa a day after explosions and gunfire hit an airport in the southern city of Aden.
ConflictsDecember 31, 2020
Explosion at an Aden airport

Deadly blast as new Yemeni government arrives in Aden

Explosions and gunfire were heard at Aden's airport after the newly formed Yemeni government arrived from Saudi Arabia.
PoliticsDecember 30, 2020
A child plays at a displaced camp in Haradh District of Hajjah province, Yemen

UN: Yemen on the verge of a 'catastrophic' famine

Yemen is in "imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades," UN Secretary-General Guterres warned.
ConflictsNovember 20, 2020
Picture combining American flag with that of Iran

Iran: False hopes after Biden victory?

Tehran is mistaken if it thinks the exit of its archenemy, Donald Trump, gives it more scope for regional ambitions.
PoliticsNovember 14, 2020
Ethiopian soldiers sit during a military parade in Tigray

Ethiopia nears war in Tigray as Abiy sends in troops

The threat of civil war in Ethiopia looms as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sends troops into the Tigray region.
PoliticsNovember 4, 2020
Men standing amid rubble in Yemen

Yemen's destroyed bridges: A matter of life and death

Data suggest that Saudi Arabia and its allies have targeted civilian infrastructure in what could amount to war crimes.
Human RightsOctober 28, 2020
Refugee Nune and her children

Fleeing Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnic Armenians in limbo

Nune and her three children were forced to flee their home when bombs started raining down on their village.
SocietyOctober 22, 2020
Prisoner exchange in Yemen

Yemen's warring sides complete major prisoner swap

The deal, brokered by the United Nations, was more than two years in the making.
ConflictsOctober 17, 2020
Representatives of Yemen's government and Houthi rebels agree to a prisoner swap deal

Yemen: Warring parties agree to swap over 1,000 prisoners

Yemen's internationally recognized government and the Houthi rebels have reached a deal to swap over 1,000 prisoners.
ConflictsSeptember 28, 2020
Refugees at a camp in Yemen

Yemen aid obstruction has 'deadly consequences'

Interference by both sides in the war in Yemen is causing obstructions to aid deliveries, Human Rights Watch warns.
Human RightsSeptember 14, 2020
A flooded playground in Sanaa

Floods in Yemen kill 130, rebels say

Heavy rains have brought deadly floods to Yemen's rebel-held regions, displacing more than 160,000 people.
ConflictsAugust 10, 2020
Yemen STC supporters

Yemen separatists abandon self-rule

Backing down on self-governance could pave the way for stalled peace talks to begin again in the war-torn country.
ConflictsJuly 29, 2020
A German-made MP5 submachine gun

Germany violated arms exports rules, study finds

Wars, including the Yemen conflict, are "fought with German weapons," a news study has said.
PoliticsJuly 19, 2020
A child plays at a displaced camp in Haradh District of Hajjah province, Yemen,

Millions of Yemeni children could starve this year: UNICEF

The number of malnourished children in war-torn Yemen could rise to 2.4 million by the end of 2020.
ConflictsJune 26, 2020
Bushra al-Maqtari in Abyan, Yemen in 2013

Yemeni author has one hope: an end to the war

Bushra al-Maqtari has faced heady challenges on the front line of Yemen's war and as a woman in a patriarchal society.
ConflictsJune 21, 2020
Children sit on a wall in Yemen

Yemen's dead and injured children haunt Saudi-led war

The UN is under pressure to acknowledge Saudi Arabia's role in killing and maiming children.
ConflictsJune 18, 2020
Orphans wear masks they received as an aid against the coronavirus in an orphan center in Sanaa

Yemen: A country on the brink

Yemen has suffered through years of civil war, poverty and cholera — and now COVID-19 is also rampant.
SocietyJune 2, 2020
A person sits in front of a makeshift tent at Darwan refugee camp in Amran north of Sana

Germany makes €125 million Yemen aid pledge

The announcement was made during a UN virtual conference created to help raise more than €2 billion for Yemen.
PoliticsJune 2, 2020
Displaced Congolese fleeing conflict

Leaders 'squabble like children' as 660k people displaced

The UN's top refugee commissioner told DW "decisive action" is needed for displaced people.
ConflictsMay 22, 2020
Nobel Peace Prize winner Karman Tawakkol at a podium discussion

Nobel Prize winner smeared in online campaign

Since her appointment to the new supervisory board of Facebook, Tawakkol Karman has been accused of Islamist ties.
PoliticsMay 13, 2020
A you child bride in Yemen sits on the street

Girls in Yemen forced into marriage

An extraordinary case of child marriage has caused a stir in Yemen, where the practice is rising.
SocietyMay 11, 2020
Members of Yemen's Southern Transitional Council forces are seen in Aden carrying weapons

Yemen to face further fragmentation?

Yemen's Southern Transitional Council has distanced itself from its former ally Saudi Arabia.
ConflictsApril 29, 2020
The port city of Aden

Yemen separatists announce self-rule in the south

The Southern Transitional Council has reneged on a deal to establish control in south Yemen.
ConflictsApril 26, 2020
Officials make preparations after first coronavirus case in Yemen

Coronavirus: Yemen braces for another humanitarian disaster

After the first case of COVID-19 was detected in Yemen, authorities fear Yemen will be unable to withstand an outbreak.
HealthApril 17, 2020
A new Thyssen-Krupp S-41 submarine in dock in Kiel; it is bound for Egypt's quasi-military government.

German arms sale approvals jump slightly in first quarter

The first-quarter increase comes on the heels of a German record year in arms sales in 2019.
PoliticsApril 9, 2020
Yemeni soldiers and fighters of Popular Resistance Forces, loyal to Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi, fight against Houthis

Saudi-led coalition declares Yemen cease-fire amid pandemic

The Saudi-led coalition's two-week cease-fire could pave the way for peace talks with the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels.
ConflictsApril 9, 2020
German military equipment with UAE soldiers in Yemen

Germany sends arms to Saudi allies in Yemen war

Critics say Germany's weapons exports to members of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen exacerbate the fighting.
BusinessApril 2, 2020
A Patriot missile battery is seen near Prince Sultan air base at al-Kharj on February 20, 2020

Saudi Arabia intercepts missile over Riyadh

At least two ballistic missiles have been destroyed by Saudi forces, state-run media reported.
ConflictsMarch 28, 2020