Yemen is releasing hundreds of jailed insurgents after the president's directive to free 500 detainees, the country's embassy in Washington announced Thursday.
A spokesman for the government of Yemen said Thursday that a cease-fire remains in place, despite clashes earlier in the week with Houthi rebels as well as the capture of Yemeni soldiers.
The Yemeni government announced an end to its military operations against rebels in the north. CNN's Mohammed Jamoon reports.
The same day a cease-fire agreement was to go into effect, a high-ranking Yemeni official accused rebels of trying to assassinate him.
The Yemeni government announced Thursday an end to its military operations against rebels in the north in a long-awaited truce deal between the two.
Fighting between Yemen's government and rebel forces erupted Friday as the two sides were working on a peace agreement, a local journalist said.
Yemen's government said Sunday it will accept a truce offer only if the rebels operating in the country's north comply with six previously laid-out conditions.
CNN's Paula Newton previews the London Conference on Yemen, highlighting the limits of trying to fight extremism there.
Saudi Arabia said Sunday that it has regained control of a mountainous region from Yemeni rebels who it said entered the kingdom's borders.
Ten alleged rebels were sentenced to death in Yemen Tuesday, the Gulf nation's official news agency reported.
Yemeni forces killed about 150 Shiite rebels Sunday in northwestern Yemen after the rebels tried to take over the presidential palace in Saada, breaching a recent cease-fire, state-run media reported.
A cease-fire between the government of Yemen and the Houthi Shiite rebels was in doubt Saturday after an official said insurgents fired mortars on military locations near the rebel stronghold of Saada, Yemen.
Yemen's military opened an investigation Friday into reports that an airstrike intended for Shiite rebels mistakenly struck and killed displaced Yemeni civilians, a Yemen Embassy spokesman in the United States said.
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