2018 in Yemen

Events in the year 2018 in Yemen.

Incumbents

 * President: Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi
 * Vice President: Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar
 * Prime Minister:
 * Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr ( 4 April 2016 – 15 October 2018 )
 * Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed (18 October 2018 - )

Events

 * Ongoing since April 2015 – Battle of Taiz
 * 28 to 31 January – Battle of Aden
 * 26 March – The Houthis launch a barrage of rockets at Saudi Arabia, killing an Egyptian man and leaving two others wounded in Riyadh.
 * 22 April – An airstrike occurs in Hajjah Governorate. The attack left between 33, 43 and 55 deaths.
 * 3 May - The United Arab Emirates deployed over 100 soldiers to the island of Socotra in an unofficial military deployment, dismissed Yemeni personnel, and took administrative control of Socotra Airport and seaport.
 * 3 July - 46 detainees are released from the Beir Ahmed prison, following reporting by the Associated Press about torture and abuse occurring there.
 * 9 August - A Saudi airstrike hit a bus in the Dahyan air strike, Sa'dah, reportedly killing dozens of children.
 * 1 September - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates say that the bombing of a school bus in Yemen by Saudi Arabian aircraft, which killed 51 people, was "unjustified".
 * 3 December - A flight chartered by the United Nations evacuated 50 wounded Houthi fighters to Muscat, Oman for medical treatment, as part of the peace talks.

Deaths



 * 17 February – Abdul Salam al-Haddad, diplomat, Ambassador to Germany, Kuwait and Ethiopia.
 * 19 April – Saleh Ali al-Sammad, de facto President of Yemen (b. 1979)