Yemen Herald News

Yemen Herald is an independent English-language news site covering Yemen: the conduct of the war and its effect on civilians, the humanitarian emergency, the economy, the political institutions on both sides of the divide, and the shipping lanes of the Red Sea and Bab al-Mandab. Articles are reported against a published sourcing standard, including a two-source rule for any claim involving death or injury, and each one carries a note naming the sources it rests on.

Rights groups say eight UN and civil society staff face death-penalty espionage charges in Sanaa Illustration of a barred prison window, scales of justice and a sealed prosecution file, representing espionage charges against detained UN and civil society staff in Sanaa

Illustration of a barred prison window, scales of justice and a sealed prosecution file, representing espionage charges against detained UN and civil society staff in Sanaa

Rights groups say eight UN and civil society staff face death-penalty espionage charges in Sanaa

Yemen Herald News November 9, 2026

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International say Houthi authorities referred eight United Nations and civil society workers...

Yemen’s health ministry launches measles and rubella campaign for 957,196 children Illustration of a vaccine vial, a syringe and three children of different heights, marking Yemen’s national measles and rubella vaccination campaign

Illustration of a vaccine vial, a syringe and three children of different heights, marking Yemen’s national measles and rubella vaccination campaign

Yemen’s health ministry launches measles and rubella campaign for 957,196 children

Yemen Herald News November 9, 2026

Yemen’s health ministry opened a six-day emergency measles and rubella campaign in Aden on Saturday, covering 11...

Saudi energy ministry reports minor damage at Aramco building as Houthis claim six attacks Illustration of a radar dome tracking incoming missiles intercepted above oil storage tanks and a refinery distillation tower.

Illustration of a radar dome tracking incoming missiles intercepted above oil storage tanks and a refinery distillation tower.

Saudi energy ministry reports minor damage at Aramco building as Houthis claim six attacks

Yemen Herald News November 8, 2026

Saudi Arabia's energy ministry said falling shrapnel caused minor damage to an Aramco administrative building in Riyadh...

Houthis blame Saudi air strikes for Taiz market deaths as Yemen’s government points to missiles Illustration of a market with striped stall awnings and produce crates beneath an airburst, with two dashed trajectories converging on it: a straight one from a jet labelled air strike, Houthis say, and an arcing one from a missile labelled ballistic missile, government says.

Illustration of a market with striped stall awnings and produce crates beneath an airburst, with two dashed trajectories converging on it: a straight one from a jet labelled air strike, Houthis say, and an arcing one from a missile labelled ballistic missile, government says.

Houthis blame Saudi air strikes for Taiz market deaths as Yemen’s government points to missiles

Yemen Herald News November 8, 2026

Three independent accounts of Friday’s attack on al-Hadara market in Taiz governorate disagree on what hit it,...

UK ambassador calls on Houthis to lift Taiz siege and allow aid in Illustration of an aid truck with a red cross halted at a striped barrier on a road leading to the Taiz skyline, with a British flag alongside

Illustration of an aid truck with a red cross halted at a striped barrier on a road leading to the Taiz skyline, with a British flag alongside

UK ambassador calls on Houthis to lift Taiz siege and allow aid in

Yemen Herald News November 7, 2026

Britain's ambassador to Yemen, Abda Sharif, called on the Houthis to lift their siege of Taiz and...

Security Council hears annual briefing on Yemen sanctions committee days before renewal vote Delegates seated around the horseshoe table of the UN Security Council chamber during a session

Delegates seated around the horseshoe table of the UN Security Council chamber during a session

Security Council hears annual briefing on Yemen sanctions committee days before renewal vote

Yemen Herald News November 7, 2026

Latvia's representative presented the Yemen sanctions committee's yearly report to a closed Security Council session on Thursday,...

Yemen’s ambassador in Moscow briefs Russian deputy foreign minister on the war Illustration of two seated figures facing each other across a round meeting table with documents, beneath the flags of Yemen and Russia.

Illustration of two seated figures facing each other across a round meeting table with documents, beneath the flags of Yemen and Russia.

Yemen’s ambassador in Moscow briefs Russian deputy foreign minister on the war

Yemen Herald News November 7, 2026

Yemen's ambassador to Russia briefed a Russian deputy foreign minister in Moscow on Friday, and the two...

Health ministry says five killed in missile strike on Lahj health centre Illustration of a damaged health centre with a medical cross and an incoming missile trail, Lahj, Yemen

Illustration of a damaged health centre with a medical cross and an incoming missile trail, Lahj, Yemen

Health ministry says five killed in missile strike on Lahj health centre

Yemen Herald News November 6, 2026

Yemen's health ministry says five people, three of them health workers, were killed and 15 injured when...

Yemen’s foreign minister meets head of French Senate’s Yemen friendship group Illustration of the Yemeni and French flags standing either side of a round meeting table set with documents and two chairs

Illustration of the Yemeni and French flags standing either side of a round meeting table set with documents and two chairs

Yemen’s foreign minister meets head of French Senate’s Yemen friendship group

Yemen Herald News November 6, 2026

Afrah al-Zouba discussed Houthi escalation, the Taiz blockade and the detention of UN staff with Rémi Féraud,...

The American dream is a prescription for coexistence, not an ideology of conflict Illustration of a domed legislature building beneath an arc of stars, with a row of people of varied skin tones standing together in front of it

Illustration of a domed legislature building beneath an arc of stars, with a row of people of varied skin tones standing together in front of it

The American dream is a prescription for coexistence, not an ideology of conflict

Yemen Herald News November 6, 2026

Dr. Sadek Alsalemi argues that the American dream is not an ideology but a prescription for coexistence,...