Yemen is the most gorgeous place you’ll probably never visit. In the north and east, the walled-cities of Sana’a and Shibam, both UNESCO Heritage sites, rise up out of the desert, all filigree and engraved ornamentation, like weathered...

Yemen today claimed to have killed 34 members of al-Qaida and captured 17 others in security operations in a country in which a growing jihadi presence is ringing alarm bells in the west. Yemen’s ministry of defence said troops, backed by...

Details have emerged about the rescue of the only person known to have survived the crash of a Yemeni-operated plane off the Comoros islands. A French rescuer said he had spotted the 14-year-old-girl in choppy waters amid bodies and wreckage. He said...