“It will soon be the end of the jambia,” bemoans Khaled al-Saikal, an antiques dealer in the souk of the Old City in Sanaa whose windows are brimming with precious and less precious versions of the jambia, or curved dagger. Saikal has been...

Rebels in northern Yemen have said they shot down a Yemeni fighter jet that was attacking their strongholds on Sunday. The government in Sanaa has denied the claim, saying the Sukhoi crashed because of a “technical error”. It was the third...