Yemen

World News

Doctors Without Borders Evacuates Teams From Hospitals In North Yemen

1:20pm August 19, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

The group deemed six facilities "unsafe" after a hospital was hit by a Saudi-led- coalition airstrike and said it has lost confidence in the coalition's "ability to prevent such fatal attacks."

A woman carries a boy to a hospital in Taiz, Yemen. He was injured in an attack by the Houthi rebel group.

Health & Safety

A Yemeni Mother's Plea: Don't Forget Our Children

1:40pm August 05, 2016

by Rasha Jarhum

Millions of children in Yemen are being killed, injured or traumatized. A mom and activist outlines how the world can help them.

Map: 19.2 Million People Were Newly Displaced By Disasters In 2015

They're The Invisible Ones: Refugees Who Aren't Officially Refugees

12:20pm May 11, 2016

by Jason Beaubien

Nearly 28 million people were displaced within their own country last year by conflict and natural catastrophe. And they're especially hard to help.

Children play amid the rubble of a house destroyed by a 2015 Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen's capital Sanaa.

World News

The Deadly Consequences To Children Of Yemen's War

4:58pm March 29, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Hundreds of kids have been killed in the violence. And a new UNICEF report suggests that many times more children died because of the near-collapse of the country's health system.

A man stands in front of a site in Istanbul where a suicide bomb blast last weekend ripped through a crowded pedestrian thoroughfare.

World News

In Wake Of Brussels Attack, A Look At Other Cities Recently Hit By Violence

3:26pm March 22, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

While the tragedy in Brussels is the focus of headlines around the world, there have been a number of other strikes in the past 10 days in places such as Nigeria and Yemen.

National

Court: State Department Wrongfully Revoked Passport Of American In Yemen

6:50pm February 17, 2016

by Richard Gonzales

A naturalized citizen was stranded for more than a year in war-torn Yemen. The U.S. embassy there says he admitted to identity fraud; the judge says the man was coerced into signing that statement.

Yemenis wounded in the civil war call for an end to a blockade that's been keeping medical supplies from reaching Taiz.

Health & Safety

Diarrhea Medicines, Trauma Kits And Oxygen Canisters Can't Enter Taiz

3:39pm January 12, 2016

by Thomas K. Grose

A blockade by rebel forces has kept vital medicines and supplies from reaching hospitals. Everyone is suffering, from war victims to cancer patients.

World News

Doctors Without Borders Says Hospital Was Hit In Yemen

9:27am January 10, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The aid organization, also known as MSF, says at least four people died and 10 were injured when a projectile hit an MSF-supported facility in Yemen on Sunday morning.

These are submunitions that broke apart Wednesday in the Hayal Sayeed neighborhood of Sanaa in Yemen, Human Rights Watch says.

World News

Iran Claims Saudi-Led Coalition Hit Its Embassy In Yemen

12:17pm January 07, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

As tension boils between the two regional powers, witnesses say it's not clear that Iran's embassy sustained damage, or was even hit.

As Fighting Continues In Yemen, Negotiators Pause Peace Talks

3:02pm December 20, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

United Nations special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said violations of the cease-fire halted some of the progress made during the talks. Ahmed said they would meet again in January.