EghtesadOnline: Yemen's Saudi-backed exiled government said on Saturday it welcomed a plan agreed by the United States, Persian Gulf Arab states and the United Nations to restart peace talks with a goal of forming a unity government.

EghtesadOnline: Forces loyal to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi launched a new offensive east of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday, the military command said, after United Nations-sponsored peace talks in Kuwait ended without an agreement.

EghtesadOnline: The Foreign Ministry spokesman implicitly dismissed a report that Iran had requested to attend the ongoing Yemen peace talks in Sweden, stressing that “the nature of the negotiations is intra-Yemeni”.