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A Yemeni youth stands beside posters of the Houthi-allied former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh inside a shop in the old city of Sana’a, Yemen, on 12 October 2015. (EPA/YAHYA ARHAB)

Yemen: Saleh using ruling party’s assets to fund rebels, says official

by Arafat Madabish | Oct 14, 2015 | Middle East

Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former president, has appropriated billions of US dollars of assets owned by the General People’s Congress (GPC), the ruling party, to fund Houthi-allied militants fighting the Gulf-backed government, a party official...

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Militants loyal to Yemen’s government dance with their weapons on a road in the coastal town of Dhubabin the Yemeni governorate of Taiz, on October 9, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Government loyalists, Arab coalition advance in Yemen’s Taiz

by Mohamed Ali Mohsen | Oct 10, 2015 | Middle East

Aden, Taiz and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemeni government loyalists, aided by Saudi-led coalition forces, have made fresh gains in Taiz, military sources said on Friday, bringing them closer to capturing the western governorate and the Red Sea port of Al-Mokha from...

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Fighters of the Popular Resistance stand during a graduation ceremony of the affiliate special forces of the Popular Resistance, in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz on October 8, 2015. (REUTERS/Stringer)

Arab coalition denies targeting wedding party in southwest Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 9, 2015 | Middle East

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi group in Yemen has denied its warplanes targeted a wedding party in the southwestern Dhamar Governorate on Thursday, maintaining that the incident was caused by a firefight between the Shi’ite rebels...

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Armed Yemeni tribesmen from the Popular Resistance Committees, supporting forces loyal to Yemen’s Saudi-backed President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, jubilate on a road after seizing control of an area in Ma’rib province, east of the capital Sana’a, on October 5, 2015. (AFP PHOTO / ABDULLAH AL-QADRY)

Yemen: Houthis, Saleh’s party agree to stop fighting, gov’t demands “concrete steps”

by Heba El Koudsy | Oct 8, 2015 | Middle East

Washington and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Houthis and the party of the ex-president have agreed to stop fighting, the United Nations said on Wednesday, more than six months after a Saudi-led coalition intervened to restore President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi to...

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Smoke rises following an explosion that hit Al-Qasr hotel where cabinet members and other government officials are staying, in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen, on Tuesday, October 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Wael Qubady)

Yemeni government will stay in Aden despite attack on HQ: minister

by Arafat Madabish | Oct 7, 2015 | Middle East

Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Western-backed government of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi will not be leaving the southern port city of Aden despite the recent attack on its headquarters that killed and injured dozens, a minister told Asharq Al-Awsat. “The government...