Houthi supporters in Sanaa protesting against Israel's blockade of aid deliveries to Gaza The start of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023 brought a new kind of conflict to prominence, with Iran-backed Houthi rebels attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The US launched several attacks in response. The latest, in mid-March, shook the new Trump presidency after it emerged that

Declan Walsh and Tyler Hicks reported from Hajjah and other areas of northern Yemen this month. Our editors explain why The Times has decided to publish such unsettling images. Chest heaving and eyes fluttering, the 3-year-old boy lay silently on a hospital bed in the highland town of Hajjah, a bag of bones fighting for breath. His father, Ali al-Hajaji, stood anxiously over him. Mr. Hajaji had al

Yemeni separatists have taken almost full control of the southern port city of Aden after days of fighting with government forces, residents say.

The Houthi movement unveiled the Burkan 2 missile in February 2017 The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthi rebels says it has intercepted a missile over Riyadh. The Houthis' Al Masirah TV reported that a Burkan H2 ballistic missile had targeted a meeting at the al-Yamama Palace in the Saudi capital. Witnesses said they heard an explosion and posted pictures online showing a cloud of smoke

Having avoided the fate of fellow Arab autocrats in 2011, Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed in a roadside gunfight while attempting to flee the capital Sanaa. Saleh will be remembered as the man who shaped modern Yemen in his own image, but who was more willing to burn the country to the ground than relinquish power. Yet without his deal-making skills, the civil war he he

Ali Abdullah Saleh became an ally of the Houthis after Yemen's civil war began in 2015 Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed amid fighting between his supporters and their former allies, the Houthi rebel movement.

Thousands of civilian deaths have reportedly been the result of Saudi-led coalition air strikes The warring sides in Yemen are swapping hundreds of prisoners - a move which has built hopes for a permanent ceasefire between the Saudi-backed government forces and the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels. The eight year-long civil war has led to the deaths of thousands of Yemenis, and created a major humanit

The spread of cholera in Yemen is accelerating, the ICRC says Children dying in hospital hallways. Four sick people crammed into one bed. Patients connected to intravenous drips while sitting in their cars because the hospital is over capacity.

The BBC's Safa AlAhmad is one of few journalists to have reached the besieged city of Taiz, at the heart of Yemen's civil war. She found a city destroyed by shelling - and a doctor struggling to save the life of a six-year-old girl. At the al-Thawra hospital in the besieged city of Taiz, doctors gather outside the operating room to discuss which of their patients will be left to die. Without enoug

Yemen is broken. The country once dubbed by the Romans as "Arabia Felix" - "Fortunate Arabia" - because of its lush valleys and rich agriculture has been torn apart by war. The UN estimates that close to 6,000 people have been killed since a Saudi-led nine-nation coalition began air strikes in March 2015, hoping to defeat the Houthi rebels who had taken over half the country. Already the poorest c

The UN says numbers fleeing to the Horn of Africa will continue to grow over the next year "Refugees and migrants", a recent report, external by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) noted, "arrive after many hours at sea often traumatised and exhausted, with little or no personal belonging, and in urgent need of food, water and emergency healthcare." This, however, was not about what

Qatar Armed Forces soldiers, backed by 200 armoured vehicles and 30 Apache helicopters, head to Yemen’s Maareb province. More Qatari troops are reportedly heading into Yemen with the aim of securing the Jawf governorate [File: Getty Images]

More than 21 million people in Yemen are in need of help, according to the UN Yemen's conflict has left it on the brink of famine, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. Food shortages, lack of fresh water, and low fuel stocks have created a "perfect storm" for the Yemeni people, the WFP's Ertharin Cousin said, external. The organisation estimates nearly 13 million people urgently require

War is tearing Yemen apart, and the news is unrelentingly grim. But some Yemenis have been raging not about fighting, airstrikes, or severe food shortages, but instead about… women on bikes. Bushra Al-Fusail , externalis a young female photographer who's pushing one solution to severe petrol shortages caused by the conflict in Yemen: bicycles. "In 2011 when there were fuel shortages we could still