Sanaa

The United Nations said Tuesday their human rights offices in Sanaa had been stormed by Yemen's Houthi rebels, with the U.N.'s rights chief demanding they leave immediately and return all seized assets.

Doaa al-Waseai spent many happy years working as a tour guide in the Old City of Yemen's capital Sanaa, showing foreigners its hidden hammams and markets teeming with silver and spices.

In the video, a man stands in front of a blackboard in a full classroom, teaching the parts of an AK-47 rifle. He then hands it over to a boy, showing him how to cock it.

The UN said Yemen's warring parties have agreed to a two-month extendable truce starting on April 2, the first day of Ramadan for many Muslims, and an accord on fuel shipments and Sanaa airport.

The UN said Yemen's warring parties have agreed to a two-month extendable truce starting on April 2, the first day of Ramadan for many Muslims, and an accord on fuel shipments and Sanaa airport.

Yemen saw a rare respite from fighting on Nov. 20, the second day of a 48-hour cease-fire that followed a U.S. push to halt a conflict that has wrought devastation and killed thousands.

Turkish citizens, who were earlier evacuated from Yemen via a Turkish navy vessel, have taken a flight from Djibouti to Istanbul, official sources told The Anadolu Agency on April 4.

Arab coalition warplanes carried out a fifth straight night of air strikes against Shiite rebels near the Yemeni capital and elsewhere in the violence-wracked country, residents said on March.
      
Fighter jets roared in the skies above Sanaa from 9 pm (1800 GMT) until around dawn, an AFP correspondent reported.
      

The United States has shut its embassy in Yemen indefinitely and evacuated its staff after the Shiite Muslim militia that grabbed power in Sanaa warned against attempts to "destabilise" the country.