• Critical Yemeni port city clings to fragile truce

    Critical Yemeni port city clings to fragile truce

    Dec 18, 2018 11:30 PM EST

    ... Jane Ferguson: The fighting here doesn't just risk the lives of those inside the city. Hodeidah's port is a lifeline for millions across Yemen. Most of the food imported into rebel-held Yemen comes through this port, and if fighting were to reach here and shut it down ...

  • Diphtheria takes a deadly stranglehold on war-torn Yemen

    Diphtheria takes a deadly stranglehold on war-torn Yemen

    Dec 18, 2018 11:25 PM EST

    Beth Murphy: It's been nearly 30 years since Yemen's last diphtheria outbreak. The first case in this latest crisis came in August 2017. Since then, the disease has spread to every corner of the country, as the war has made it difficult to inoculate children and also moved ...

  • Cease-fire in Yemen takes effect, but peace could prove elusive

    Cease-fire in Yemen takes effect, but peace could prove elusive

    Dec 18, 2018 09:03 PM EST

    ... More than 3,000 were killed in November, the deadliest month since the group started collecting data. It said 37 percent of civilians killed in Yemen in 2018 died in Hodeida. The figures do not include the last few months of 2014, when the Houthi rebels captured the Yemeni capital ...

  • Who are Yemen’s Houthis?

    Who are Yemen’s Houthis?

    Dec 14, 2018 04:12 PM EST

    ... to 1962, led by imams who came exclusively from Sada families. Complex factors today Houthis continue to focus on protecting the Zaydi region of north Yemen from state control. However, they have also forged coalitions with other groups – some of them Sunni – unhappy with Yemen’s persistent high unemployment and ...

  • Senate takes aim at Yemen, bin Salman as UN peace talks progress

    Senate takes aim at Yemen, bin Salman as UN peace talks progress

    Dec 13, 2018 11:45 PM EST

    ... envoy, the U.N. special envoy, had trouble getting these two sides in the same country just a few months ago. But, really, traditionally, in Yemen, and even in this war over the past four years, the difficulty has not been getting the sides to agree to different things. It ...

  • WATCH: Senate recommends ending Saudi aid for Yemen war in wake of Jamal Khashoggi killing

    WATCH: Senate recommends ending Saudi aid for Yemen war in wake of Jamal Khashoggi killing

    Dec 13, 2018 02:48 PM EST

    McConnell urged senators to vote for the measure, which he said "does a good job capturing bipartisan concerns about both the war in Yemen and the behavior of our Saudi partners more broadly." The resolution also calls the war in Yemen a "humanitarian crisis" and demands that all parties seek ...

  • During peace talks, UN envoy says future of Yemen is at risk

    During peace talks, UN envoy says future of Yemen is at risk

    Dec 06, 2018 11:30 PM EST

    Nick Schifrin: While the U.S. supports the talks and is pushing to end the war, the administration is resisting punishing Saudi Arabia or targeting the Saudi defense minister, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But opposition to the war in Yemen and to MBS, as he's known, is now ...

  • Yemen's warring parties sit down to first peace talks in years

    Yemen's warring parties sit down to first peace talks in years

    Dec 06, 2018 02:01 PM EST

    U.N. officials, however, have sought to downplay expectations from the talks, saying they don't expect rapid progress toward a political settlement but hope for at least minor steps that would help to address Yemen's worsening humanitarian crisis. Yemeni voices from both sides continued to make some last ...

  • As Yemen's warring parties meet for talks, officials hope for small steps

    As Yemen's warring parties meet for talks, officials hope for small steps

    Dec 05, 2018 06:56 PM EST

    ... month alone, and has displaced at least 134,000 families since June, according to the U.N. office for humanitarian aid.In an appeal from Yemen, the regional director of the U.N. agency for children called for an immediate end to the years-long war. "Yemen today is a ...

  • What conflict-torn Yemen needs to keep more children from dying

    What conflict-torn Yemen needs to keep more children from dying

    Nov 23, 2018 11:40 PM EST

    In Yemen, the U.N. has called for a cease-fire in the conflict between Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition backed by the U.S. No official death toll exists, but Save the Children says 85,000 children have died since the war began from a combination of violence, hunger and disease. Nick Schifrin talks to Greg Ramm,...