While the West does arms deals, doctors in Jordan try to help the people of Yemen suffering from the constant bombardment, writes Norma Costello.

No warning is given and no air raid sirens sound but the people of Sana’a city in Yemen know when the bombs are about to start falling.

A suspected suicide bomber blew himself up outside a military camp in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday morning, killing at least 30 soldiers, Yemeni officials said.

At least 82 people have been killed in Yemen after an air strike by a Saudi-led coalition targeted a funeral hall packed with mourners.

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis marched today in support of Shiite Houthi rebels and their ally, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Global military spending rose in 2015 to nearly €1.5trn, the first increase in several years, driven by conflicts including the battle against Islamic State (IS), the Saudi-led war in Yemen, and fears about Iran.

Saudi Arabia has shot down a ballistic missile launched toward the kingdom from Yemen.

At least 20 people have been killed and 15 others injured in an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition on a building used by police in the capital of Yemen, security officials said.

Iran has accused the Saudi-led coalition battling Shiite rebels in Yemen of hitting its embassy there in an overnight air strike.

Twenty five people were killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque during Eid al-Adha prayers, security officials in Yemen’s capital Sanaa said.

Amnesty says warplanes have left ‘bloody trail of civilian death’.

Efforts to bring Yemen’s warring factions together to discuss their conflict have made some progress, officials said yesterday, as warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition mounted more air strikes against the dominant Houthi group.

Since Saudi Arabia's foundation, its leaders have tried to keep a friendly regime in power in Yemen to prevent it from posing a threat. However, Mohamad Bazzi says this time the stakes are higher

Oil prices rallied for a second straight day yesterday after Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab allies began air strikes in Yemen, sparking fears of a bigger Middle East battle that could disrupt world crude supplies.

Suicide bombers in the Yemeni capital Sanaa blew themselves up during Friday prayers at two mosques used by supporters of Shi’ite rebels, killing 142 people and wounding 260 in the country’s deadliest militant attack in years.

At least 137 people have been killed and 345 wounded in suicide attacks on Yemen mosques, according to a Shiite TV channel.

The US State Department says that the US Embassy in Yemen has closed to the public over security concerns amid street violence and turmoil that is roiling the impoverished Arab country.

Thousands of protesters have demonstrated across Yemen, some supporting the Shiite rebels who seized the capital and others demanding the country’s south secede after the nation’s president and cabinet resigned.

The Yemeni president is being held “captive” at his home by Shiite rebels a day after they seized the presidential palace in the capital Sanaa, two presidential advisers have said.

Shiite Houthi rebels have shelled the residence of the country’s president and also swept into the presidential palace in the capital, according to the country’s information minister.

At least 10 people have been killed in violent protests in the west African nation of Niger over French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo’s depiction of the Prophet Mohammed.

One of the gunmen responsible for last week’s massacre at a French magazine claimed to have lived with the Nigerian who tried to carry out the failed al-Qaeda “underwear bomb” plot five years ago, a Yemeni reporter has said.

A suicide bomber driving a minibus full of explosives killed at least 15 people near a police academy in the heart of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.

Yemeni police have arrested three foreigners in the capital Sanaa after one of them was found to have al Qaeda material in his possession, the Interior Ministry said.

A massive explosion has struck in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, ripping through a gathering of supporters of the rebel Shiite Houthis who recently overran the city.

Yemeni security officials say a blast has struck a bus carrying air force personnel in a main street in the capital, causing casualties.

The US has sharply escalated its drone war in Yemen, with military officials in the Arab country reporting 34 suspected al-Qaida militants killed in less than two weeks.

Yemen says it has foiled plots by al Qaida to take over key cities and attack strategic ports and gas facilities amid heightened anti-terror tension in the country.

Suspected US drone strikes have killed seven al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen.

The US military has evacuated its non-essential government personnel from Yemen due to the high threat of attack by al Qaida which has caused temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa

An intercepted secret message between al Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri and his deputy in Yemen about plans for a major terror attack was the trigger for the current shutdown of many US embassies.

A Yemeni military plane has crashed into a neighbourhood in the country’s capital, Sanaa, killing at least nine people and injuring 18, medical and security officials said.

All 10 people on board a Yemeni military plane were killed when it crashed during training over the capital, Sanaa, early today, security officials said.

A gunman has assassinated the Yemeni chief of security at the US Embassy in Sanaa, officials say.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet today, targeting British and German embassies and clashing with security forces around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.

Protests have started breaking out in parts of the Muslim world against an anti-Islam film which prompted violent protests at US embassies in the Middle East earlier this week.

Demonstrators yesterday attacked the US embassies in Yemen and Egypt in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and US warships headed towards Libya after the US ambassador there was killed in related violence this week.

Protesters angered by an anti-Islam film have stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital, two days after America’s ambassador was gunned down at the US Consulate in Libya.

A gunman opened fire on worshippers marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in southern Yemen, killing nine.

Al-Qaida gunmen shot dead four soldiers in one of the militants’ former south Yemen strongholds as the local governor declared that the country’s ill-equipped police force is incapable of filling the security void left by months of clashes.