Yemen

ADEN, Oct 2 (NNN-YPA) – An updated UN proposal, calling for an extension of the existing truce, set to expire today, has been received by both sides of Yemen’s warring parties, but its fate remains unclear.

According to a government statement, released by Yemen’s state-run Saba news agency, yesterday, “the government has just received an updated proposal from the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to expand the truce starting from today.”

SANAA, Oct 3 (NNN-YPA) – UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced yesterday no agreement has been reached to renew the expired truce between the Yemeni warring parties.

“The UN Special Envoy regrets that an agreement has not been reached today (yesterday), as an extended and expanded truce would provide additional critical benefits to the population,” his office said in a statement.

3 October 2022; MEMO: Yemen's Houthis on Saturday warned foreign oil companies working in areas controlled by the internationally recognised government to cease operating or risk coming under attack.

The Houthi-affiliated Al-Masirah TV reported that the head of the group's Supreme Council, Mahdi Al-Mashat, issued instructions to prepare official communications to all foreign companies and entities involved in "looting Yemen's sovereign wealth" to immediately cease their activities.

ADEN, Oct 2 (NNN-YPA) – An updated UN proposal, calling for an extension of the existing truce, set to expire today, has been received by both sides of Yemen’s warring parties, but its fate remains unclear.

According to a government statement, released by Yemen’s state-run Saba news agency, yesterday, “the government has just received an updated proposal from the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to expand the truce starting from today.”

ADEN, Sept 28 (NNN-YPA) – At least three soldiers of Yemen’s joint pro-government forces were killed, and 10 others injured, in clashes with Houthi fighters in the country’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, yesterday, a military official said.

The Houthis launched an attack, in an attempt to achieve a ground breakthrough, into the government-controlled areas, in the Hays District, sparking intense fighting in the area, the local military source said, on condition of anonymity.

ADEN, Sept 25 (NNN-YPA) – Yemen’s pro-government forces, yesterday, continued anti-terror military operations, in the southern province of Abyan, a security official said.

The troops raided the al-Qaeda terrorist group’s strongholds, in various areas of the province in recent days, killing 24 armed al-Qaeda members, the local security source said.

“The troops launched yesterday, the fourth phase of the anti-terror campaign, aimed at pushing their elements out of the whole province,” the source added.

SANAA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- The protracted war in Yemen not only brings physical suffering to millions of children but also inflicts a kind of pain that last longer -- psychological trauma.

"Many children displayed aphasia or other symptoms of PTSD after they went through heavy bombings. They were overwhelmed by horror and fear," said Suad Al-Haimi, the director of the Al-Tahadi Association for the Disabled in the capital Sanaa.

SANAA, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- Nayef bin Falah Al-Hajraf, Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), has reaffirmed the GCC's support for Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) and the internationally-recognized government, the national Yemen TV reported Saturday.

Al-Hajraf made the remarks when meeting with Rashad Al-Alimi, chairman of the PLC, on the sidelines of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on Thursday.

The two sides reviewed "developments in Yemen and the efforts to renew the ongoing humanitarian truce," said the Yemeni news outlet.

ADEN, Yemen, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chief of Yemen's Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) on Thursday called on the international community to drastically change its long-standing approach to dealing with his country's years-long crisis.

Rashad al-Alimi said during his speech at the general debate of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York that there's a necessity for the international community to adopt a new approach to Yemen's crisis and put an end to the world's worst humanitarian sufferings.

SANAA, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A total of 17 Houthi militants were killed when attempting to infiltrate into a military camp in the government-controlled province of Marib in central Yemen, a military source on the frontline told Xinhua on Monday.

The operation happened late on Sunday night in Madghal district in the northwestern part of the province.

"Two groups of Houthi militants tried to infiltrate into the camp from two directions despite the truce," the source said on condition of anonymity.