Yemen

It's the start of historic hearings into the legality of Israel's 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state.

Efforts have begun to unload more than 16,000 cattle and sheep that have been stranded at sea for more than a month.

The future of more than 15,000 sheep and cattle remains in limbo after the federal regulator blocked a bid to send them to Israel via a lengthy journey around Africa.

A number of deaths have been recorded on board a live export ship carrying more than 15,000 animals, as it remains in limbo off Fremantle in Western Australia.

The attack on the US warship, the destroyer USS Carney, marked a further escalation in the biggest confrontation at sea the US Navy has seen in the Middle East in decades.

The special forces operatives were on a nighttime mission when they fell into the water. They have been remembered as "cherished teammates".

The operations came as another cargo ship in the Red Sea was attacked by the Iranian-backed Houthis.

The attack in the Red Sea has dramatically raised the stakes in the Middle East.

The Houthis' military spokesman said in a recorded address that the strikes would "not go unanswered or unpunished".

Oil, natural gas, grain and everything from toys to electronics typically travel through the Red Sea.

South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians and pleaded with the court to urgently order a halt to the country's military operation.

How many casualties would warrant a full-blown offensive? Each strike and counterstrike increases the risk of the already catastrophic war in Gaza spilling across the region.

A large chunk of global trade faces being rerouted around the Middle Eastern waterway, adding time and costs for shipping companies.

The attack marks a potential escalation in the Israel Hamas conflict.

The hijackers descended on the cargo ship by repelling down from a helicopter, reports said.

The Israel Defence Forces said that it had used its Arrow aerial defence system for the first time to successfully intercept a surface-to-surface missile.

A US Navy warship operating in the Middle East intercepted multiple projectiles near the coast of Yemen on Thursday, two US officials told CNN.

Satellite images allegedly reveal secret burial sites on migrant routes, and report warns the death toll could even be in the 'thousands'.

Yemen’s ruinous civil war has wrecked the country’s economy and pushed half of the population to the brink of famine.

The lone survivor of a 2009 plane crash in the Indian Ocean took the stand in a Paris courtroom, recounting her ordeal as a 12-year-old girl hearing screams, clinging to floating debris and desperately hoping that her mother was still alive.

Yemen's President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has been replaced by a newly formed presidential council in a bid to support UN efforts to end the country's seven-year civil war.

The world must not lose sight of the plight of those living through the years-long war in Yemen, a Red Cross official said.

A mysterious air base is being built on a volcanic island off Yemen that sits in one of the world's crucial maritime chokepoints for both energy shipments and commercial cargo.

Black smoke rose off the Saudi port of Yanbu after an undescribed "incident" in the Red Sea, authorities said, while one private security firm warned of a possible attack on a ship.

The head of the UN food agency warned his underfunded organisation may be forced seek hundreds of millions of dollars in private donations in a desperate bid to stave off widespread famine.

Wars and conflict raged on in 2020, with headlines of the frontlines obscured by the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

The United Nations said an abandoned oil tanker moored off the coast of Yemen loaded with more than one million barrels of crude oil is at risk of rupture or exploding.

One of al-Qaeda's top commanders has been killed in a CIA drone strike.

US President Donald Trump has retweeted several reports that a drone strike in Yemen killed a senior al-Qaeda leader, but the death has not been confirmed.

15 million people are now without water as the humanitarian crisis in Yemen worsens, Oxfam has warned.

US President Donald Trump announced today that he has applied new sanctions on Iran's central bank, days after the attack on a Saudi oil facility that the US has blamed on Tehran.

Drone strikes on key Saudi Arabian oil facilities have disrupted about half of the kingdom's oil capacity - five per cent of the daily global oil supply.

Saudi special forces have captured the leader of the Yemeni branch of the Islamic State militant group in a daring 10-minute raid, according to the Saudi-led military coalition fighting in Yemen.

One person was killed and seven others were wounded in an attack by Iranian-allied Yemeni rebels on an airport in Saudi Arabia Sunday evening (local time).

One person was killed and seven others were wounded in an attack by Iranian-allied Yemeni rebels on an airport in Saudi Arabia.

US President Donald trump has been briefed after an Iran-aligned movement allegedly fired at Saudi Arabia and a US military drone was shot down in Tehran.

Shocking vision shows the moment a Houthi fired missile struck the arrivals hall of an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, injuring 26 people.

Jamal al-Badawi, the militant behind the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, has been killed in a US air strike.

A two-year-old boy at the centre of a lawsuit over the Trump government's Muslim travel ban has died a week after his Yemeni mother was allowed into the US.

While both sides in the four-year civil war have sent children into combat in violation of international human rights conventions, the Houthis are believed to have recruited many more than the coalition — often forcibly.

A leading charity estimates 85,000 children under five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen.

The number of people facing starvation in Yemen could rise to nearly 12 million as conflict intensifies around the port of Hodeidah, a vital aid delivery link.

Today, 17 years after al-Qaeda extremists carried out the 9/11 attacks, the group looks stronger than ever.

Three experts working for the UN’s top human rights body say the governments of Yemen, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia may have been responsible for war crimes in Yemen.

The United Arab Emirates said it was actively fighting al Qaeda's branch in Yemen after a report outlined how Emirati forces cut secret deals with the militants to get them to abandon territory.

Newly declassified documents released graphically describe how an accused al Qaeda operative was stripped naked, repeatedly slammed against walls, waterboarded and confined in boxes for hours at a covert detention site

Striking new drone images from the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, sheds light on the rarely accessible, rebel-held city, under siege for years and bombarded by airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition.

Heavy fighting along Yemen's west coast between pro-government forces and Shiite rebels in recent days has left dozens dead from both sides.

Yemen's government says the Iran-aligned Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, should release all detainees and captives held in their prisons ahead of peace talks.

Yemen's interior minister has demanded the United Arab Emirates shut down or hand over secret prisons that The Associated Press reported are under the control of the UAE and its allied militias.