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UN Mideast envoys urge warring parties to cease fighting now

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A medical staff member adjusts the sheets on a bed as personnel setup a coronavirus quarantine ward at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, March 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen has 1st confirmed coronavirus case, more than 10K in Israel

By Maggie Michael - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2019 file photo, Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman meets with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at the Pentagon. On Thursday, April 9, 2020, a cease-fire proposed by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has gone into effect, potentially paving the way for an end to the more than 5-year-old conflict. Saudi officials announced late on Wednesday that the cease-fire would last for two weeks and that it comes in response to U.N. calls to halt hostilities amid the coronavirus pandemic. Prince Khalid bin Salman tweeted on Thursday that the cease-fire “will hopefully create a more effective climate to deescalate tensions” and enable the sides to work toward a political settlement. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

UN envoy gives Yemen’s warring parties new peace proposals

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2019 file photo, Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman meets with Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at the Pentagon. On Thursday, April 9, 2020, a cease-fire proposed by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen has gone into effect, potentially paving the way for an end to the more than 5-year-old conflict. Saudi officials announced late on Wednesday that the cease-fire would last for two weeks and that it comes in response to U.N. calls to halt hostilities amid the coronavirus pandemic. Prince Khalid bin Salman tweeted on Thursday that the cease-fire “will hopefully create a more effective climate to deescalate tensions” and enable the sides to work toward a political settlement. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Saudi cease-fire takes effect in Yemen, rebels suspect ploy

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 photo, men inspect a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. The missile fired by the Saudi-led coalition killed a judge and his entire family in the Nahda neighborhood, security officials said. The judge was a known Houthi supporter. On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen announced that its forces would begin a cease-fire starting at midnight, in what could pave the way for the first direct peace talks between the two sides that have been at war for more than five years. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Saudi officials announce Yemen cease-fire amid pandemic

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

File - In this Thursday, March 19, 2020 file photo, a young worker cleans the window of a barbershop that posts a warning sign referring to the coronavirus, with Arabic that reads, &quot;Please greet only and don't kiss, due to the difficult circumstances in the current situation,&quot; in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq announced a weeklong curfew to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

With virus, cherished Mideast traditions come to abrupt halt

By SAMYA KULLAB - Associated Press

A member of the Iranian army walks past rows of beds at a temporary 2,000-bed hospital for COVID-19 coronavirus patients set up by the army at the international exhibition center in northern Tehran, Iran, on Thursday, March 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Iran’s army sets up hospital in capital as virus toll climbs

By AMIR VAHDAT and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

A street musician sings and plays music on an empty lane in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, March 26, 2020. Iran is battling the worst new coronavirus outbreak in the region and authorities have advised people to stay at home and trying to enforce new policy imposing the kinds of lockdowns when the country spending the new year holidays. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Curfews extended as USAID declares aid suspension in Yemen

By SARAH EL DEEB and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

FILE - In this, Sunday, March 15, 2020 file photo, a medical staff member works on setting up an isolation room at a coronavirus quarantine ward at a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. In conflict zones across the Middle East, the specter of the coronavirus looms large. Authorities in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and the Gaza Strip warn that health care systems gutted by years of war and unrest have left millions of people doubly vulnerable to the pandemic. For most people, the virus causes only mild or moderate symptoms. For some it can cause more severe illness. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Ravaged by war, Middle Eastern countries face a new scourge

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

Heavy fighting in central Yemen leaves at least 38 dead

By BY AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Yemeni army says sites near Saudi border wrested from rebels

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

United Nations Security Council members, except Russia and China, raise hands in a vote supporting Yemen related sanctions, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 at U.N. headquarters. The Security Council voted to approve a revised British draft resolution extending targeted sanctions in Yemen. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

UN Security Council approves resolution on Yemen sanctions

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

US to stop aid in Yemen’s Houthi areas if rebels don’t budge

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Battles intensify near strategic Yemeni port

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In this Sept. 23, 2018 file photo, men deliver aid donations from donors, in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen. Houthi rebels in Yemen have blocked half of the United Nations’ aid delivery programs in the war-torn country — a strong-arm tactic to force the agency to give them greater control over the massive humanitarian campaign, along with a cut of billions of dollars in foreign assistance, according to aid officials and internal documents obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Hammadi Issa, File)

UN: Houthi rebels impeding aid flow in Yemen

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

In this February 2017 photograph provided by Conflict Armament Research, a gyroscope recovered from a Qasef-1 drone is displayed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Such gyroscopes, a small instrument within drones that targeted the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil industry and those in the arsenal of Yemen's Houthi rebels, match components recovered in downed Iranian drones in Afghanistan and Iraq, two reports said. Conflict Armament Research said in a report released on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, that these gyroscopes within the drones have only been found inside those manufactured by Iran. That follows a recently released United Nations report that says its experts saw a similar gyroscope from an Iranian drone and in a shipment of cruise missiles seized in the Arabian Sea bound for Yemen. (Conflict Armament Research via AP)

Devices found in missiles, Yemen drones link Iran to attacks

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this Oct. 1, 2018 file photo, a malnourished boy sits on a hospital bed at the Aslam Health Center, Hajjah, Yemen. Houthi rebels in Yemen have blocked half of the United Nations’ aid delivery programs in the war-torn country — a strong-arm tactic to force the agency to give them greater control over the massive humanitarian campaign, along with a cut of billions of dollars in foreign assistance, according to aid officials and internal documents obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels impeding UN aid flow, demand a cut

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Yemeni Shiite fighters stand guard during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast plan in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

UN envoy warns `dire’ military situation risks Yemen peace

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Yemeni Shiite fighters stand guard during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast plan in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

UN: Warring parties in Yemen agree on major prisoner trade

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2019 file photo, Bodies covered in plastic lie on the ground amid the rubble of a Houthi detention center destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes, that killed at least 60 people and wounding several dozen according to officials and the rebels' health ministry, in Dhamar province, southwestern Yemen. A database project that tracks violence says Yemen's civil war has left more than 100,000 people dead since 2015. The Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data Project, or ACLED, said Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019, the war's death toll includes more than 12,000 civilians killed in attacks directly targeting civilians. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

U.S. says airstrikes kill over 30 civilians in Yemen

By Ahmed Al-Haj and Samy Magdy - Associated Press