Khaled Bahah

The Yemeni prime minister and his Cabinet returned on Jan. 25 to the volatile southern port city of Aden, months after he was targeted in a suicide bombing that forced them to leave the country.

A ceasefire took effect in Yemen on Dec. 15, as parties to the civil war started United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Switzerland in a new push to end months of fighting that have killed nearly 6,000 people, a U.N. spokesman said. 

Al Qaeda have retaken the two major southern Yemeni towns of Zinjibar and Jaar, while Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah rejected a cabinet reshuffle ordered on Dec. 1, by Hadi.

A hotel in Yemen's second city of Aden where Prime Minister Khaled Bahah was staying with members of the government was on fire on Oct. 6 after being hit by three rockets, a security source and witnesses said.

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi landed in Aden on Sept.22, airport sources said, the first time he had been in the southern port city since he left for Saudi Arabia as Houthi fighters closed in on it in March. 

Yemen's exiled Vice President Khaled Bahah announced online July 17 the "liberation" of second city Aden after four months of devastating fighting between loyalist forces and Iran-backed rebels.

Jets from a Saudi-led alliance destroyed the runway of Yemen's Sanaa airport on April 28 to prevent an Iranian plane from landing there, Saudi Arabia said, as fighting across the country killed at least 30 people.

The United Nations Security Council on feb. 15 urged Yemen's Huthis to cede power, release President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and negotiate in "good faith," after the Shiite militia vowed to defy the body's "threats."       

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu has met with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj during the latter's official visit to Ankara.

The two ministers held a closed door meeting on the afternoon of Jan. 16 at the Foreign Ministry building in the capital after briefly posing for photographers.