Yemen at highest risk of major conflict since 2022 truce, UN warns

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The UN warns that Yemen faces its highest risk of a major conflict since the 2022 truce, with escalating hostilities between the Iran-aligned Houthi group and the Saudi-backed government. Over half of Yemen's population suffers from acute food insecurity, intensifying humanitarian concerns.

Aug 13 (Reuters) - Yemen faces its most serious threat of a return to large-scale war since a U.N.-brokered truce in 2022, U.N. envoy Hans Grundberg warned on Thursday, as the world body said more than half the country's population was experiencing acute food insecurity. The warning follows an escalation in hostilities between Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi group and its internationally-recognised, Saudi-backed government that has raised fears of a broader return to war and a fuelling of wider regional tensions.