• Iran is responsible for Yemen's humanitarian crisis, says Pompeo

    Iran is responsible for Yemen's humanitarian crisis, says Pompeo

    Feb 13, 2019 11:25 PM EST

    Judy, for an example, how many dollars has Iran provided for humanitarian assistance in Yemen? I can tell you. Do you know? Judy Woodruff: I don't know. Mike Pompeo: It's zero. How much money -- how much money have the Emiratis and Saudis provided? The Americans, the Brits, Saudis ...

  • Pope in UAE for historic trip after call for Yemen relief

    Pope in UAE for historic trip after call for Yemen relief

    Feb 03, 2019 06:38 PM EST

    ... for Yemen’s limited cease-fire to hold so that humanitarian aid can reach the most vulnerable. “We have confidence in the greatness of the pope to be our advocate and the advocate for the Yemeni people,” said Giovanna Reda, CAFOD’s head of humanitarian programs for the Middle East.

  • News Wrap: Drone attack on Saudi coalition in Yemen kills at least 6 soldiers

    News Wrap: Drone attack on Saudi coalition in Yemen kills at least 6 soldiers

    Jan 10, 2019 11:50 PM EST

    In our news wrap Thursday, President Trump denied knowing that former campaign chair Paul Manafort allegedly shared polling data with a Russian associate in 2016. The associate is accused of having ties to Russian intelligence. Also, rebels in Yemen attacked Saudi coalition troops with a bomb attached to a drone, killing at least 6 soldiers.

  • Rebel drone strikes Yemen military parade, killing several

    Rebel drone strikes Yemen military parade, killing several

    Jan 10, 2019 01:19 PM EST

    ... as well as two governors and a large number of top military commanders including the chief of staff. Initial reports said six troops were killed. Yemen plunged into civil war in 2014 when the rebels captured Sanaa, and the Saudi-led coalition intervened a year later when they pushed further ...

  • Yemen's ongoing civil war creates a life of loss for children

    Yemen's ongoing civil war creates a life of loss for children

    Jan 07, 2019 11:30 PM EST

    ... because divorce happens and a mother has remarried. But it's also because of poverty. Jane Ferguson: Of all the different groups of people in Yemen, it is children who are by far the worst affected by this war.In the chaos and cruelty of Yemen's war, boys are ...

  • AP report: Yemen's food donations are being snatched from the starving

    AP report: Yemen's food donations are being snatched from the starving

    Dec 31, 2018 06:44 PM EST

    ... insecurity. The group's year-end breakdown says as many as 10,500 people in and around Taiz are living and dying in areas overtaken by full-blown famine. The AP's reporting on the war in Yemen is supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

  • 2-year-old Yemeni boy whose mom sued U.S. to see him has died

    2-year-old Yemeni boy whose mom sued U.S. to see him has died

    Dec 29, 2018 04:10 PM EST

    ... is scheduled for Saturday. Swileh had been trying to get a visa since 2017, so the family could move to the United States. READ NEXT: Yemeni mom overcame travel ban to hold her dying son in U.S.Citizens from Yemen and four other mostly Muslim countries, along with North ...

  • Fighting, starvation and disease yield grim crisis in Yemen

    Fighting, starvation and disease yield grim crisis in Yemen

    Dec 28, 2018 11:45 PM EST

    ... painful gasps, as she struggles with the deadly disease diphtheria. It's an illness that doctors here never treated before, having been largely eradicated in Yemen with vaccinations. But this war has undone everything. In the four years the conflict has ravaged Yemen, the number of needy people has steadily ...

  • UN team arrives in Yemen to monitor port city cease-fire

    UN team arrives in Yemen to monitor port city cease-fire

    Dec 22, 2018 09:12 PM EST

    SANAA, Yemen — A U.N. team led by a Dutch officer has arrived in Yemen to monitor a cease-fire that went into force in the Red Sea port city of Hodeida, where the country’s civil war rivals have fought for months. The team, led by Maj. Gen. Patrick ...

  • Yemeni mom overcame travel ban to hold her dying son in U.S.

    Yemeni mom overcame travel ban to hold her dying son in U.S.

    Dec 20, 2018 08:43 PM EST

    Citizens from Yemen and four other mostly Muslim countries, along with North Korea and Venezuela, are restricted from coming to the United States under the travel ban enacted under President Donald Trump. When the boy's health worsened, Hassan went ahead to California in October to get their son help ...