Houthi insurgency in Yemen

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged on Aug. 13 Tehran's continued support for Yemen's Houthi movement and called for dialogue among Yemenis to safeguard the war-shattered nation's territorial integrity.

The Saudi-led coalition intervened in Aden on Aug. 11 in support of the Yemeni government after southern separatists effectively took over the port city, fracturing the alliance that had been focused on battling the Iran-aligned Houthi movement.

An abandoned oil tanker described as "floating bomb" roaming along the coast of Yemen, has the potential to create an environmental disaster, the experts claim, as "Guardian" reports.

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen has sent more than 10,000 new troops towards a vital rebel-held port city ahead of a new assault, Yemeni government officials said on Oct. 30.

ADEN (Reuters) - Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Thursday killed dozens of people, including children travelling on a bus through a market, in Yemen's Saada province, a Yemeni health official and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said.

An explosion has damaged a Turkish vessel carrying wheat to Yemen's Houthi-controlled port of Saleef, with varying accounts attributing the incident on May10 to an unexplained blast aboard the ship or a possible missile strike.

Turkey on Dec. 19 condemned the firing of a ballistic missile by Yemen’s Houthi militia toward the Saudi capital Riyadh.

The Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Houthi rebels says it has intercepted a ballistic missile near Riyadh, Saudi state media report./BBC

Witnesses in the Saudi capital posted pictures on social media showing a cloud of smoke in the air, and there were no reports of any damage.

United Nations officials have found that missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi rebels appear to have a “common origin,” but they are still investigating U.S. and Saudi claims that Iran supplied them, according to a confidential report.

The radio station of Yemen’s Houthi-run interior ministry said yesterday the militia’s former war ally turned adversary, ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, had been killed as fighting racked the capital Sanaa though there was no independent confirmation.