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The State Department said on Thursday that the Iran-backed Houthi insurgency abducted at least 25 Yemenis who work for the United States. President Joe Biden lifted the Houthis’ designation as a terrorist organization as one of his first actions in office.

A massive rally in the Yemeni city of Aden on Thursday expressed support for the separatists who took over the vital southern port city, the seat of Yemen’s internationally-recognized government ever since it was driven from the capital city of Sanaa by Iran-backed Houthi insurgents in 2014.

Contents: Clashes erupt between Saudi and UAE backed forces in South Yemen’s port of Aden; Brief generational history of South Yemen

Contents: Iranian advisors are ‘on the ground’ with Houthis in Yemen, supplying weapons and intelligence; Forces realign in the Yemen war following the death of Ali Abdullah Saleh

The Islamic State group affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing early Tuesday that targeted security forces in the southern port city of Aden, killing at least six people and injuring scores.

CAIRO — Saudi Arabia said Monday that the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels in Yemen will begin reopening airports and seaports in the Arab world’s poorest country, days after closing them over a rebel ballistic missile attack on Riyadh.

The Saudi-led coalition carried out two air strikes on the defense ministry in Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sana’a late Friday, witnesses and rebel media said, without reporting casualties.

A Catholic priest kidnapped by radical Islamists in Yemen last spring has personally appealed to Pope Francis for assistance in liberating him.

Dozens of prisoners and security personnel were feared dead after Saudi-led airstrikes on Saturday battered two prisons inside a security headquarters in a western port city, security and medical officials said.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings in Yemen and Iraq Monday, killing more than 70 people.

The Islamic State militants who killed the four Missionaries of Charity in Yemen earlier this month “tied them up, shot them in the head and smashed their heads,” according to an eye witness who escaped the killing. One of the

Al-Qaeda has denied responsibility for the savage attack on a home for the elderly established by Mother Teresa in Yemen’s port city of Aden, in which four Catholic nuns were murdered, along with 12 other people.

Pope Francis has reached out with a message of condolence for the victims of a terrorist attack on a care home in Yemen operated by the Missionaries of Charity in which four Catholic nuns as well as 12 other people were

Yemeni Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Nasir al-Tahiri is accusing the Shiite Houthi rebels that have run the official government out of the nation’s capital of hiring African “mercenaries” to fight in the nation’s ongoing civil war.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack aimed at the presidential residence in Aden, Yemen, on Thursday. Reports say that up to 11 people were killed in the blast and at least 20 wounded.

The prime minister and vice-president of Yemen, Khaled Bahah, fled the country with several of his ministers in October, after Iran-backed Houthi insurgents attacked the palace where they were living.

An abnormally large number of desert locusts are expected to hatch beginning in January in Yemen, threatening to eat through a chunk of an already dangerously depleted food supply. Most Yemenis rely on humanitarian aid for food and water following a year of civil war and the rise of jihadist violence in the Middle East’s poorest nation.

Armed jihadists broke into three departments at the University of Aden in southern Yemen on Monday, distributing leaflets signed by the Islamic State (ISIS) and threatening death to university authorities if they do not enforce a strict separation of the sexes.

Contents: Yemen’s Houthis sign letter agreeing to peace plan; Generational frustration grows among West Bank Palestinians; Russia Ministry of Defense videos found to be deceptive; The sleazy world of loan sharking — legally

Contents: Saudi Arabia appears to have stalled in the Yemen war; Saudi Arabia under international pressure to end Yemen airstrikes

Prime Minister Khaled Bahah—of the internationally recognized Yemeni government that fled to Saudi Arabia after the Iran-backed Houthis seized swathes of Yemen early this year—has returned to his homeland after months of exile.

Contents: The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen suffers its deadliest day; In major escalation in Yemen war, Qatar is sending 1,000 troops; Britain’s RAF drones target and kill British nationals in Syria

SANAA, Yemen (AP)– Islamic militant websites say four leading members of Yemen’s Al-Qaeda branch have been killed in a suspected U.S.drone strike the previous day in an eastern Yemen province.

The China – Pakistan love story; China extends its military buildup with Pakistan; Air strikes, naval shelling and ground fighting escalate in Yemen

If you are an American trapped in Yemen, waiting for help from the State Department is plain suicide. It is no exaggeration to say you are far better off appealing to the Chinese or Indian governments for help–in fact, that is precisely what the State Department itself recommends.

Bashar al-Assad’s Syria army showing signs of collapse; Why do Awakening era civil wars always fizzle?; US speeds up weapons deliveries to militias in Yemen

Death tolls in Yemen continue to rise with a California man believed to be the first American killed in the current escalating violence between Iran-backed Shia Houthi militias and Sunni tribes supportive of Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, who

Yemen Houthis arrest Sunnis in Sanaa, as fighting continues in Aden; Saudi Arabia razing villages near the border with Yemen; Many countries, but not US, are evacuating their citizens from Yemen

BBC– Houthi rebels in Yemen have intensified their push to control the port city of Aden, amid reports of troops landing from the sea.

Yemen crisis continues growth into major war and humanitarian crisis; Pakistan debates Saudi Arabia’s call for help

Saudi Arabia, with US help, leads Arab nations to strike Houthis in Yemen; Iran threatens retaliation against Saudi Arabia for Yemen strikes; Shia militias sidelined for Iraq’s assault on Tikrit, with US help

US joins Iran and Iraq in fighting ISIS in Tikrit; Saudi Arabia begins airstrikes against Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen; Obama administration continues to hail Yemen as a model

Yemen’s President and his top military officials are reportedly on the run from their temporary stronghold in the southern port city of Aden, after Iran-backed Houthi militants stormed the area in an attempt to usurp more territory and capture the president.

Yemen’s Houthis capture Taiz, advance south to fight Hadi’s forces in Aden; UN Security Council urges ‘peaceful dialog’ in Yemen; France’s center-right party edges out far-right National Front in elections

Computer geek activists demonstrate against robots at SXSW; Yemen’s Houthi-controlled Supreme Revolutionary Committee calls for ‘general mobilization’; US military forces evacuating Yemen, fearing AQAP attacks

Yemen suicide bombings bring sectarian civil war closer; Benjamin Netanyahu’s ‘no Palestinian state’ scandal exposes political fantasies