The Iran-backed Houthis have reportedly detained employees of the state-run Yemeni Oil Company and enforced a complete communications blackout on residents of Kamaran Island in Yemen’s Hodeida province, according to a local rights official. Ghaleb Al-Qudaimi, director of the Human Rights Of...
The Southern Transitional Council (STC) has leveled accusations against Rashad al-Alimi, Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, and Prime Minister Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, asserting they bear primary responsibility for the worsening service delivery and economic crisis in Aden. The city, ...
Vice President of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, Sultan al-Aradah, appealed on Tuesday for continued and robust international support aimed at bolstering Yemen's economic recovery and the reinstatement of state institutions. During a meeting with Jeannette Seppen, the Netherla...
Multiple explosions were reported in the skies above Hasween District in Al-Mahrah Governorate, eastern Yemen, on Sunday, April 27, 2025, following the interception of incoming attack missiles. According to a local source speaking to Barran Press, successive explosions were heard over the Ras Far...
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced on Sunday that American forces have conducted more than 800 airstrikes against the Iran-backed Houthi group since the resumption of military operations in mid-March. In a statement, CENTCOM reported that these strikes have resulted in the deaths of hundr...
The Iran-backed Houthi group claimed on Monday that a U.S. airstrike resulted in the deaths or injuries of 125 African migrants at a shelter in Saadah governorate, their northern stronghold. According to the Houthi's de facto health ministry, a U.S. strike allegedly occurred late Sunday, targ...
A joint security operation in Yemen’s southern Lahj province resulted in the seizure of a smuggled ammunition shipment intended for the Iran-backed Houthi group, according to the media center of the Southern Giants Brigades. In a statement obtained by Barran Press, the center reported that ...
Tareq Saleh, a member of the Presidential Leadership Council, offered his condolences to council member and Marib Governor, Major General Sultan Al-Arada, on Sunday, following the deaths of three of Al-Arada's relatives in clashes with Houthi forces in southern Marib. During a phone call, Sal...
Three members of the Popular Resistance were killed on Saturday during clashes with the Iran-backed Houthi group in southern Marib governorate northeastern Yemen. According to local sources, the fallen fighters were from the family of the Yemeni Presidential leadership Council Vice President Sult...
On Sunday, tribal sources reported that the Iran-backed Houthis seized a piece of "Al-Balghaith" tribal land in Al-Abdiyah district of eastern Marib governorate northeastern Yemen. The Houthis also launched a wide-ranging abduction campaign and besieged the home of a tribal sheikh. Sp...
Two government soldiers were killed and four others injured on Saturday as government forces repelled an infiltration attempt by Iran-backed Houthi militants on the Karsh front, north of Lahj province in southern Yemen, according to military sources. The sources informed Barran Press that the Hou...
Two children sustained leg injuries on Saturday when a sniper from the Iran-backed Houthi group opened fire on them west of Taiz city in southwest Yemen. Medical sources at a local hospital confirmed that Suleiman Fahd Haza’a, 14, and Mohammed Mansour Ali Abdulrahman, 12, were wounded while...
Young Yemeni documentary filmmaker Mussab Al-Hutami was killed in a mortar attack by Iran-backed Houthi forces in southern Marib province, northeastern Yemen on Saturday. He was martyred beside me, in one of the hardest moments of my life," wrote Musab's brother, Yemeni photographer Suha...
The Iran-backed Houthi group has acknowledged a U.S. airstrike targeting a fuel tanker at Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah province, western Yemen. The Houthis claim the vessel was preparing to unload an oil shipment, a move the U.S. asserts violates its ban on dealings with Houthi-controlled ports, es...
The Sam Organization for Rights and Liberties called on Sunday for an independent international investigation into the devastating explosion in Sana'a's Fawrah neighborhood, Yemen. In a statement released to Barran Press, Sam emphasized the conflicting accounts surrounding responsibility ...
The Internationally recognized government of Yemen officially reopened its embassy in Damascus, with a national flag-raising ceremony marking the resumption of diplomatic activities scheduled to begin on Sunday, April 27. Yemen’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement that...
Ten years after Houthi forces gained control of it, the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today, Friday, April 25, 2025, the resumption of operations at its embassy in Damascus, effective Sunday, April 27. The decision to reopen the embassy followed directives from Yemeni Foreign Min...
Local authorities in Taiz governorate, Yemen, have reportedly banned the human rights organization "Mwatana for Human Rights" from operating within the province, citing alleged links to the Houthi movement. A leaked directive from Taiz's Social Affairs and Labor Office, instructed...
The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday sanctioned Iranian businessman Seyed Asadollah Imam Jom'ah and his network for facilitating liquefied natural gas and crude oil shipments that fund Iran's nuclear program and proxy groups, including the Houthis. Yemen's Information Minister ...
A Yemeni human rights organization, the Eye Organization for Human Rights, has condemned the Iran-backed Houthis for the "arbitrary arrest" of six civilians in Al-Mahwait governorate. The group accused the Houthis of violating citizens' rights to document security threats after resid...