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Yemeni peace talks session in Kuwait, A.P

Four-Week-Long Yemeni Peace Talks Reach a Dead End

by Arafat Madabish | May 14, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh – U.N. sponsored Yemeni peace talks, currently held in Kuwait, have come into their fourth week of sessions with no evident results -relative to the set work agenda- surfacing. The sole achievements so far lie in the partial understandings arrived at on the...

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Yemen’s United Nations envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed arrives for a press conference at the ministery of information in Kuwait City on April 30, 2016

U.N. Roadmap Wraps up Yemeni Solution with Elections

by Arafat Madabish | May 5, 2016 | Middle East

Riyadh- Sources attending the Yemeni talks, which are held in Kuwait, gave Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper the international outline for a solution in Yemen. The roadmap to peace is inspired from previously set items mentioned in U.N. Resolution 2216, which specifically...

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A boy walks as he collects toys from the rubble of a house destroyed by a recent air strike in Yemen’s northwestern city of Saada May 27, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer

Yemeni Insurgents Recruit Thousands of Children, Turn Schools into Camps

by Said Al-Abyad | May 4, 2016 | Middle East

Jeddah- National Yemeni army officials revealed that Houthi militia and other insurgent allies following the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh have recruited over 48 thousand minors inside Sanaa over the past few days. Unlike other waves of recruitment, being run...

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Followers of the Houthi movement attend a gathering to show support to the movement outside the Presidential Palace in Sanaa February 4, 2015. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Intensified Gulf and International Efforts to Salvage Yemeni Peace Talks

by Arafat Madabish | May 4, 2016 | Middle East

Riydah- Peace-brokering efforts in Yemen have recently intensified, especially those spent by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). All endorsements were pumped into the process of saving Yemeni peace talks in Kuwait from failure, after they were threatened by a series...

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U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed speaks during a press conference.

Peace Talks on Yemen Resume in Kuwait after 3-Day Suspension

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 4, 2016 | Middle East

Peace talks resumed on Wednesday after they were suspended by the Yemeni government for three days in protest at a Houthi assault on a military base near the capital Sanaa, the U.N. envoy trying to negotiate an end to the war said. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on...