The decision to pause all operations and programmes in northern Saada came after eight UN staff were detained by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
Minh Quang Pham was accused of plotting a suicide bombing at Heathrow Airport in London in support of Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch.
A protest depicted in a video on social media happened last year, in response to US and UK airstrikes on Yemen after Houthi militants attacked shipping...
The Houthis have previously detained UN staffers, as well as individuals associated with the then US Embassy in Sanaa and aid groups.
The Houthis, an Iranian-backed group based in Yemen, have launched repeated attacks despite the Israeli military’s retaliatory airstrikes.
For more than a year, the Houthis, an Iranian-backed militant group that controls northern Yemen, have attacked ships in the Red Sea, severely disrupting a major...
The strikes were in response to previous Houthi missile and drone attacks on Israel, which have escalated in recent weeks.
The assault came after a week of attacks by the Iran-backed militia on Israel.
Israel said it had shot down a missile fired by Houthi militants in Yemen, hours after Israel’s defense minister threatened to “behead” the group’s leadership.
The Houthis have been attacking ships in the Red Sea for more than a year in what they have described as a campaign in solidarity with...