The Houthis have been mobilising more fighters as part of a recent escalation of the conflict Nearly 1,500 children recruited by Yemen's Houthi rebels died in fighting in 2020, and hundreds more ...

They include killing and maiming - and recruitment or use of child soldiers. Anas is trying to raise his child in Yemen and faces struggles providing her with an education and basic safety.

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A few soldiers are standing guard ... Laughter trickles out of an alleyway where a few children are playing soccer. Taiz, high up in the mountains of Yemen, is a divided city.

deployed child soldiers and cracked down on dissent since holding Yemen's capital, Sanaa, in 2014. Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul-Salam, in comments carried by the Houthi-controlled SABA news ...

Houthi leaders had previously pledged to end the use of child soldiers in 2012 and had also signed a UN action plan in 2022 agreeing to end violations against children in Yemen.

Two former German soldiers worked to set up a ... According to UNICEF, more than 10,000 children have been killed or injured in war-torn Yemen. The UN says that the fighting has resulted in ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt on Wednesday for fresh talks on an Israel-Hamas cease-fire, and as ...

The Gaza Health Ministry says over 41,000 Palestinians have been killed since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack triggered the war nearly a ...

Children dressed up as villains representing ... they crept on stage to steal the Yemeni flag.… until kids playing Yemeni soldiers arrived to seize it back. Just four years later, one of the ...