Yemen Government Agrees to UN Peace Deal

Yemen's internationally recognized government has conditionally agreed to a U.N. peace plan, the country's minister of foreign affairs said Sunday. In a series of social media posts, Abdulmalik al-Mekhlafi briefly outlined the plan that would end nearly two years of armed conflict between government forces and the Houthi rebels who overran the capital Sanaa in late 2014. The agreement in part will require that Houthis hand over weapons and withdraw from Sana'a, Taiz and...

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