{"id":31287,"date":"2026-08-09T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31287"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T08:35:17","slug":"yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Yemen Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recent Houthi rebels\u2019 attacks on gov\u2019t forces hint that a major battle in Yemen is brewing.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Yemen<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Location:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is situated at the south-western corner of the <\/span><b>Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Borders:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It shares its border with <\/span><b>Saudi Arabia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (North) and <\/span><b>Oman<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (East).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Coastline &amp; Strategic Importance<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/red-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Red Sea<\/strong><\/a> (West), Gulf of Aden, Arabian Sea, and Guardafui Channel (South).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yemen is strategically located <\/span><b>at the entrance of the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The strait links the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea via the Gulf of Aden.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Capital City:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sanaa<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Geographical Features of Yemen<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Climate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It lies in the border zone between two main weather patterns: the regular northerly winds (from the Mediterranean basin) and the southwest monsoon winds.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Highest Point:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yemen\u2019s highest point is <\/span><b>Jabal an Nabi Shu\u2019ayb at 3,760 m.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Desert:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rub\u2019 Al Khali Desert.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are no perennial lakes and rivers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/several-killed-as-houthi-attacks-yemen-rebels-target-oil-rich-marib-updates\/article71318726.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yemen, located in Western Asia, borders Saudi Arabia and Oman and holds strategic importance at the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.  Read more about Yemen, Location, Border, Geopolitical Features, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23,4704],"class_list":["post-31287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-yemen","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118170,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31287\/revisions\/118170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}