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Yemeni officials say forces of the internationally recognized government have reclaimed the entire southern province of Shabwa from Iran-backed Houthi rebels

Yemeni officials say forces of the internationally recognized government have reclaimed large swaths of territory in the southern province of Shabwa from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels

Yemeni military officials say an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition has mistakenly hit a camp of pro-government forces in a southern Yemen province

Iranian media say Iraq’s foreign minister has called for direct negotiations between Iran and the United States

Iran is reporting that its top diplomat to Yemen has died after reportedly contracting the coronavirus

Iran says it is recalling its ambassador in Yemen for medical treatment as he has been infected by the coronavirus

The system could be used to counter bomb-laden drone boats deployed by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea.

The Houthis have deployed drone boats into these waters, which can be piloted remotely and sent up to a target before detonating.

The U.S. Navy has tested a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Mideast.

The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday it tested a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Mideast, a system that could be used to counter bomb-laden drone boats deployed by Yemen's Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. The test Tuesday saw the USS Portland test-fire its Laser Weapon System Demonstrator at the target in the Gulf of Aden, the body of water separating East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.

Celebrations erupted across Yemen after the boys’ under-15 team won the West Asian junior football championship.

Yemeni officials say a senior military commander was killed in clashes between government forces and the Houthi rebels attacking a key central city

The Senate has rejected a bid to stop a U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia.

Officials say the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed rebels in Yemen has accelerated its airstrikes on the capital and elsewhere in the conflict-stricken country

Jeremy Bowen gets rare access to Marib, where civilians are caught behind the conflict's front line.

Its famous architecture has been wrecked by war - now a female engineer is rebuilding amid the conflict.

The U.N. envoy to Sudan says a deal struck to reinstate the country’s civilian prime minister after a military coup is imperfect but has saved the country from falling into civil strife

The E.U. accuses Belarus of ‘weaponizing’ immigration against neighboring countries.

EU nations, the US and UK say Belarus is putting migrants' lives in danger for political purposes.

The U.N. Security Council has slapped sanctions on three Houthi rebels linked to cross-border attacks from Yemen into Saudi Arabia and to fighting in the government’s last stronghold in the country’s north

Not far from Marib’s front lines, gardeners find peace by transforming trees into art.

A court run by Yemen’s Iran-backed rebels has sentenced an actor and model to five years in prison on charges of committing an indecent act and having drugs in her possession

Lebanon is seeking a dialogue with Saudi Arabia to resolve an unprecedented diplomatic rift over a Lebanese Cabinet minister’s comments, even as new reasons for tension emerged.

A televised remark by a game show host-turned Cabinet minister in Lebanon about the war in Yemen has taken Lebanon's crisis with Saudi Arabia to new depths.

Kuwait has followed Saudi Arabia and Bahrain by ordering the Lebanese charge d’affaires to leave the emirate within two days over comments made by a Lebanese minister regarding the war in Yemen

Critics of Joe Biden have come up with a cryptic new phrase to insult the Democratic president: "Let's Go Brandon." (Oct. 30)

Secretaries of state across the country are taking action to combat false information and potential security issues in the upcoming election. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Marie Griswold joins CBSN's Lana Zak with more on the measures her state is taking.

Law enforcement is increasing security in Northern Virginia as it warns of a potential terror threat against malls and shopping centers in the area. Catherine Herridge has the latest.

The United Nations humanitarian chief is warning world leaders at the G20 to focus on the needs of afghanistan as winter sets in and more than 12 million people are in need of food assistance,. (Oct. 29)

The World Series returns to Georgia for the first time in 22 years Friday night. State Republicans are using the opportunity to pounce on Major League Baseball over its decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Atlanta earlier this year over the new GOP-backed election law changes. Greg Bluestein, political reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, joined CBSN to discuss.

Progressive lawmakers such as Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cori Bush are pushing to remove some Republicans from the House, after a Rolling Stone report that they worked with organizers of two D.C. rallies on January 6th. CBS News political analyst and New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie spoke to CBSN's Tanya Rivero about the 14th Amendment argument.

Saudi Arabia on Friday ordered the Lebanese ambassador to the kingdom to leave the country within 48 hours and stopped all imports from Lebanon, a response to comments by a Lebanese minister who described the war in Yemen as Saudi “aggression.” Hours later, the Kingdom of Bahrain ordered the Lebanese ambassador to leave the country within two days for the same reason, Bahrain's foreign ministry said. Lebanon's prime minister and president discussed the Saudi decision and asked the country's information minister to take the “right decision,” an apparent call for him to resign in hopes it will ease the tension.

The German nationals tried to recruit up to 150 men, including ex-cops and soldiers, to join the private army to fight Houthis Shia militants.

An attack on a U.S. military outpost in Syria shows that the American advantage in unmanned weapons is receding.

The head of the U.N. agency promoting gender equality  is warning that increasingly vast military expenditures and the exclusion of women from peace negotiations are risking renewed conflicts instead of promoting peace and stability

Afghan teenager Amena saw dozens of classmates killed when her girls' school was targeted by an Islamic State bomb attack in May, but she was determined to continue her education. Now, like most secondary school girls in the country, she is banned from lessons altogether after the Taliban's hardline government excluded them from returning to class one month ago.

President Joe Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia’s monarch expressed hope that the kingdom’s direct talks with Iran will lead to confidence building as the two bitter regional rivals take small steps toward dialogue following several years of heightened tensions

The United Nations, the United States and the United Kingdom have condemned the executions of nine Yemenis by the country’s Houthi rebels

Yemen’s southern separatists have imposed emergency measures in an effort to put down growing protests over dire living conditions in areas they control

The new U.N. special envoy for Yemen says the Arab world’s poorest nation is “stuck in an indefinite state of war” and resuming negotiations to end the more than six-year conflict won’t be easy

Here's why countries may have appeared to be entering out of order during the Parade of Nations at the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

At least fourteen people have been killed by flooding in Yemen in the past 24 hours, according to security officials. The provinces of al-Mahrah, Hadramawt, Shabwa, Abeen and Jouf in the south and east of the country have seen instances of flooding. In Shabwa, local officials said a father and daughter are believed to have drowned after swiftly moving waters carried their car away.

The OPEC oil cartel led by Saudi Arabia and other allied producing countries are resuming talks amid a standoff with the United Arab Emirates over how much to raise production levels

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says children caught in conflict are being taught to commit war crimes before they can count

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have brought down two U.S.-made drones over the country’s central Marib province, the scene of heavy fighting between the Iran-backed rebels and forces loyal to the internationally recognized government

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Saudi Arabia said Sunday a bomb-laden drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels crash-landed in the premises of a school in the province of Asir near the kingdom’s southern border. In a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, the department of Civil Defense in Asir said no injuries were reported. The statement accused the Iran-backed Houthis of launching the drone from inside Yemen.

Yemen's Iran-backed rebels fires missiles on the central city of Marib on Thursday, killing at least eight people and wounding as many as 27, the state news agency reported. It was the second such attack on Marib in nearly a week as rebels push to capture the key city from the forces of the internationally recognized government to complete their control over the northern half of the country. Yemen's state-run SABA news agency said a mosque and a women’s prison in Marib were struck in Thursday's attack.

The U.N. Security Council called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels to quickly allow U.N. experts to examine an oil tanker moored off the war-torn country’s coast loaded with more than 1 million barrels of crude oil, warning there is a growing risk it could rupture or explode “causing an environmental, economic, maritime and humanitarian catastrophe for Yemen and the region.” The U.N.’s most powerful body reiterated that the Houthis are responsible for delaying a technical assessment of the tanker, the FSO Safer, that the United Nations had hoped to deploy in March.

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Yemeni officials are demanding answers after an Associated Press report highlighted a mysterious air base being built on a Yemeni island in one of the world’s crucial maritime chokepoints

The U.N. humanitarian chief says despite last year’s U.N. call for global cease-fires to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, many conflicts never stopped including in Syria, Yemen and Congo and new ones erupted

The US Navy's Fifth Fleet shared a video of the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey with the weapons on its deck.

The arms shipment contained thousands of assault weapons, machines guns and sniper rifles apparently bound for Yemen to support the country's Houthi rebels despite a U.N. arms embargo.

The arms shipment contained thousands of assault weapons, machines guns and sniper rifles apparently bound for Yemen to support the country's Houthi rebels despite a U.N. arms embargo.

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2019 file photo, a woman holds her malnourished boy at a feeding center at the Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Beasley visited Yemen earlier this week, including the capital of Sanaa which is under the control of Iran-backed Houthi rebels. He said that at a child malnutrition ward in a Sanaa hospital he saw children wasting away from lack of food. A pledging conference last month raised a little more than half from the international community of what was needed to continue food aid services for the next year. AdOne source of funding for Yemen could be a new anonymous aid fund.

FILE - This Sept. 15, 2019, file photo, shows storage tanks at the North Jiddah bulk plant, an Aramco oil facility, in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. A Houthi military spokesman, tweeted that the rebels fired a new Quds-2 cruise missile at the facility. Gen. Yehia Sarie, a Houthi military spokesman, tweeted that the rebels fired a new Quds-2 cruise missile at the facility. A Saudi-led military coalition launched a bombing campaign to dislodge the Houthis and restore the internationally recognized government. Saudi Arabia has faced widespread international criticism for its airstrikes that have killed civilians and hit non-military targets in Yemen.

In this frame grab from video, Saudi state television shows an airplane damaged in an attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels at an airport near Abha, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Saudi state television via AP)DUBAI – Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Wednesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia with bomb-laden drones, causing a civilian plane on the tarmac to catch fire, the kingdom's state television reported. Photographs later aired by Saudi state television showed the aircraft, a 3-year-old Airbus A320 flown by low-cost carrier FlyADeal. AdU.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with his counterparts in Saudi Arabia after the strike. He repeated U.S. assurances that America intends to help Saudi Arabia increase its ability to defend itself.

The reversal of policy also comes as a rebuke to Saudi Arabia. Saudi state media focused on that part of Biden's announcements Thursday. The Houthis have launched multiple drone and missile strikes deep into Saudi Arabia. The weeks-old Biden administration has made clear that shifting its stance toward the Yemen war, and toward Saudi Arabia over the Yemen offensive and other rights abuses, was a priority. A career foreign service member, he has served in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other countries in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Mohammed Al Zabidi holds his canceled U.S. visa at his home in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. The Trump administrations travel ban that affected several Muslim-majority nations robbed him of his American dream and his chance to escape his war-torn homeland. I won!” Al Zabidi cheered. So Al Zabidi is left wondering whether he'll ever make it to the States to start working there and repay what he borrowed. Biden has not indicated whether he will lift it, and ending the travel ban will mean little if he doesn't, said Rafael Urena, a California attorney.

The apparent attack on the oil tanker marks the fourth assault targeting Saudi energy infrastructure in a month. The attack on the Singapore-flagged BW Rhine, which had been contracted by the trading arm of the kingdom's massive Saudi Arabian Oil Co., marks the fourth assault targeting Saudi energy infrastructure in a month. The explosion comes after a mine exploded and damaged a ship off Saudi Arabia last month. Saudi Arabia recently accused the Houthis of dumping mines into the southern Red Sea, which could be carried toward Jiddah. A stepped-up campaign of drone-boat attacks deeper into the Red Sea likely would do the same.

DUBAI – Yemen's Houthi rebels said they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jiddah early Monday with a new cruise missile, just hours after the kingdom finished hosting its virtual Group of 20 leaders summit. Videos of a small explosion at a Saudi Arabian Oil Co. facility in Jiddah had circulated on social media all day and a satellite photo confirmed damage at the site. Gen. Yehia Sarie, a Houthi military spokesman, tweeted early Monday that the rebels fired a new Quds-2 cruise missile at the facility. He posted a satellite image online that matched Aramco's North Jiddah Bulk Plant, where oil products are stored in tanks. Its stock traded slightly up Monday on Riyadh's Tadawul stock exchange as crude oil prices remained steady above $40 a barrel.

They cried loudly, twisting as if in pain, not from disease but from the hunger gnawing away at them. Here, U.N. officials’ increasingly dire warnings that a hunger crisis is growing around the world are becoming reality. U.N. agencies have warned that some 250 million people in 20 countries are threatened with sharply spiking malnutrition or even famine in coming months. The United Nations humanitarian office this week released $100 million in emergency funding to seven countries most at risk of famine — Yemen, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Congo, and Burkina Faso. But David Beasley, head of the World Food Program, says billions in new aid are needed.

“But we still have a number of situations where the spoilers or the mistrust that existed has not allowed the cease-fire to materialize,” he said. “In the last two weeks, COVID cases have doubled in Armenia and increased 80 percent in Azerbaijan,” he said in Wednesday’s AP interview. We need to stop.”Guterres said the same holds true for the conflicts in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Africa’s Sahel region and elsewhere. “I’m here to appeal to all of them to understand that there’s no way to win any war,” he said. “The only way is to join efforts for cease-fires, political talks and to defeat COVID.

WASHINGTON The State Department's internal watchdog has found that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo did not act improperly last year when he approved billions of dollars in arms sales to Saudi Arabia without the consent of Congress. The State Department Office of Inspector General concluded in a report released Tuesday that Pompeo had the legal authority to declare an emergency and bypass Congress under the Arms Export Control Act. Pompeo cited the threat posed by Iran and its support for rebels in Yemen to justify approving arms sales totaling $8.1 billion to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. The report concluded that the law grants the secretary the discretion to decide what constitutes an emergency, something three previous administrations have done with respect to arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The official said the big takeaway from the report is that Pompeo and the department acted in accordance with the law" as it sought to aid the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.