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The Yemen resolution is an effective surrender to Iran that would allow an enemy proxy to contest a strategic strait across from U.S. forces.

U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Matthew Tueller on Thursday blamed the Iran-backed Houthi insurgency for deliberately stalling implementation of a peace deal brokered by the United Nations.

Iran-allied Shiite Houthi rebels on Thursday reportedly hailed the U.S. Senate vote this week to end American support for their Saudi Arabia-led coalition rivals in Yemen, arguing that United States assistance has prolonged the conflict.

The internationally recognized government of Yemen and Iran-allied Houthi rebels agreed over the weekend to start pulling out their forces from the strategically important port city of Hodeidah under a United Nations-sponsored deal, negotiators from the international body announced on Sunday.

Iran-allied Shiite Houthi rebels in Yemen are preventing aid workers from accessing aid for millions of Yemenis, putting the food “at risk of rotting” while an estimated 20 million people in the country find themselves on the brink of starvation, the United Nations warned Monday.

The internationally-recognized government of Yemen echoed the charges raised by a new United Nations report and accused the Iran-backed Houthi rebels of stealing food from humanitarian aid programs.

New Year’s Eve brought an unusual run of bad press for the Iran-backed Houthi rebels of Yemen, whose activities are rarely discussed at length by Western media.

The Iran-backed Shiite Houthis and the Saudi-led coalition on Thursday agreed on an immediate ceasefire in Yemen’s port city of Hodeida, considered the lifeline of the country as the primary entry point for food and humanitarian aid.

China’s ambassador to Tehran told Iranian officials on Sunday that Beijing is seeking a role in ending the Yemen war, potentially using its status as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council to take action to settle the dispute.

A senior leader of the Iran-allied Houthis in Yemen on Monday said the Shiite terrorists would stop bombing targets inside Saudi Arabia for the sake of United Nations-backed peace efforts that have failed in the past, marking the first sign of hope for the latest push to end the war that has been raging for more than three years.

At a press briefing on Tuesday hosted by spokeswoman Heather Nauert, the State Department emphasized how much support Iran provides to terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to stop refueling Saudi Arabian warplanes bombing Iran-allied Shiite Houthi terrorists in Yemen, the Pentagon and Sunni kingdom declared this weekend.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering branding the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), the Washington Post (WaPo) reported on Thursday.

Mattis and Pompeo signaled Tuesday that U.S. patience has run out on supporting a Saudi-led coalition in a war in Yemen.

Pakistan is serving as a mediator between regional enemies Saudi Arabia and Iran in efforts to end their proxy war in Yemen currently fueling a humanitarian crisis that has killed at least 10,000 people, Prime Minister Imran Khan revealed on Wednesday night.

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, during his speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, accused state-sponsor of terrorism Iran of trafficking illegal drugs into Yemen to fund the its proxy Houthi rebels.

Iran-allied Shiite Houthi rebels fighting against the Saudi- and Emirati-backed government in Yemen have repeatedly committed atrocities that may amount to “war crimes” including torture and enforced disappearances, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Tuesday.

About 70 percent of girls in Yemen are forced to marry before they reach the age of 18 as “a coping strategy” against the “worsening” humanitarian crisis in the country driven by hunger and disease, a United Nations official declared on Monday.

Contents: Saudis in Yemen cut the supply routes from Hodeidah seaport to Sanaa; Turkey, desperate to stop Syrian Idlib offensive, is supplying weapons to rebels

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired four missiles at Saudi Arabia during the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. The Saudi military reports it intercepted all four missiles.

The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Wednesday published some educational materials distributed by the Iran-supported Houthi insurgents in Yemen. The level of vicious anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism fed to children by the Houthis may come as a surprise to American news consumers who think of them as merely a political or tribal insurgency.

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or Iran nuclear deal, has earned the praise of officials in Yemen who are saying the move has directly resulted in Iran’s diminished role there.

Saudi Arabia’s U.S. allied military coalition has cut multiple deals with al-Qaeda in order to maintain ground in the ongoing civil war in Yemen, a report by The Associated Press on Monday revealed.

Contents: Attacks on Saudi tankers expose twin Iran military threats to international oil shipments; US considers military options for Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb

Contents: Saudi Arabia suspends Red Sea oil shipments after Yemen Houthi missile strikes tanker; Saudis renew airstrikes on Houthis in Yemen’s Hodeidah seaport

The United Nations warned this week that an estimated 18.4 million are expected to perish of war-driven starvation in Yemen by the end of the year, a development that will exacerbate what some say is the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), a member of a Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen since 2015, revealed Tuesday that the Sunni alliance is working with the United Nations on a deal to end the war that would make peace contingent upon the Shiite rebels withdrawal from the strategically important port city of Hodeidah.

The Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting to restore the internationally-recognized government of Yemen reported on Wednesday that the strategically vital airport in Hodeidah was captured from Houthi insurgents without any civilian casualties, despite the Houthi tactic of placing armored fighting vehicles in civilian areas.

Contents: Saudi coalition claims to have captured airport in Yemen’s Hodeidah; United Nations renews its peace plan proposal

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Officials in a Saudi-led coalition now battling Shiite rebels for control of a crucial port in Yemen on Tuesday displayed weapons captured on the battlefield that they say show Iran is arming the insurgents.