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Yemeni students attend a class on the first day of the new school year in the capital Sanaa, on October 15, 2017 (AFP Photo/Mohammed HUWAIS)

Yemeni Militias Resort to Planting Mines Across Villages after Losing in Taiz

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Oct 16, 2017 | Middle East

Taiz- Militia sources in Yemen said that coup factions have stepped up their weaving of landmines into the southwestern villages near Taiz. The increase in mine-planting activity comes after suffering steep losses in the battlefield. On the other hand, a...

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Children ride on the back of a pick-up truck as they flee Sana’a on April 6, 2015 (Reuters/ Khaled Abdullah)

Yemeni Human Rights Center: UN Report Overlooks 3,400 Children in Taiz Affected by War

by Abdul Hadi Habtor | Oct 11, 2017 | Middle East

Riyadh- Angry reactions bubbled up as the United Nations published a report on children rights violations in Yemen citing inaccurate information provided by sources involved with coup militias in the war-torn country. A report released yesterday by the Information and...

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Pro-government fighters ride on a tank in the Bir Basha neighborhood after they took the area from Houthi fighters in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz. (Reuters)

Arab Coalition Fighters Target Coup Military Camps in Yemen

by Thaer Abbas | Oct 2, 2017 | Middle East

Aden – The Yemeni National Army announced on Sunday the death of a Houthi commander in the Taiz province south of Sana’a. The 35th Armored Battalion tweeted that “Houthi commander Major Hamid al-Mudai was shot dead by the 35 Armored Battalion in the Salu district...

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Child soldiers with Houthi fighters hold weapons during a demonstration in Sana’a on March 13, 2015. Reuters

Yemen Insurgents Continue to Recruit Children

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 18, 2017 | Middle East

Taiz– Yemen’s insurgency leaders have held a meeting with a number of elders loyal to former president Ali Abdallah Saleh to discuss the forcible recruitment of children following huge human losses within their ranks on the front lines, sources in Al-Mahwit...

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A boy walks on a street littered with cooking gas cylinders after a fire and explosions destroyed a nearby gas storage during clashes between fighters of the Popular Resistance Committees and Houthi fighters, in Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz July 19, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer/Files

Yemen Coupists Bomb Village in Taiz, Displace Civilians

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 8, 2017 | Middle East

Taiz- A woman was killed and another three wounded in Yemen’s Marib province on Thursday as coup militias bombarded residential compounds inhabited by displaced people, reported local witnesses. “The woman died after being transferred to the hospital, one of the other...