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Yemen’s Houthi rebels claimed that they shot down another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, as the U.S. kept up its intense airstrikes targeting the group. The reported shootdown came as airstrikes hit around Sanaa, the country’s rebel-held capital, and Saada, a Houthi stronghold. The U.S. military...

U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels pounded sites across the country, with the group saying one attack in the capital killed at least two people and wounded more than a dozen others. The American strikes on the rebels, who threaten maritime trade and Israel, entered their 10th day...

Yemen’s Houthis have said they have retaliated after vowing to “meet escalation with escalation” following the United States air strikes against the group that killed at least 53 people. The rise in the death toll to 53 from the U.S. attack on Yemen was confirmed by a spokesperson for the Houthi-run...

Special Envoy Hans Grundberg highlighted the alarming trend of escalation provoked by Yemen’s Houthi forces who began attacking international shipping in the Red Sea last year in support of Hamas operations in Gaza. The Yemen attacks provoked retaliatory strikes by multiple states, including the...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels stormed the headquarters of the United Nations’ Human Rights Office in the capital, Sanaa, seizing documents, furniture, and vehicles, a senior U.N. official said on August 13. The seizure was the latest move in a crackdown by the Houthis on people working with the U.N., aid...

The UN has called for the immediate release of 11 of its personnel who have been detained by the Houthi movement in Yemen. The employees were taken in various parts of the conflict-torn country, in what appears to be a coordinated crackdown. UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said the world body was...

A Houthi court sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23, 2024, in an unfair mass trial based on dubious charges of “sodomy,” Human Rights Watch said on March 27. The Houthis should end their use of the death penalty and other forms of cruel and degrading punishment and provide fair trials...

The United States government has announced it is once again designating Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a “terrorist” organization. Washington’s move on January 17 to relist the group as “specially designated global terrorists” comes after the US launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to...

The UN Security Council demanded an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea in a resolution adopted on January 10 that implicitly condemned their main weapons supplier: Iran. It condemns “in the strongest terms” at least two dozen attacks carried out by the Houthis...

U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of air strikes across Yemen overnight in retaliation against Iran-backed Houthi forces for attacks on Red Sea shipping, widening regional conflict stemming from Israel's war in Gaza. Witnesses confirmed explosions at military bases...