Kuwait is to send $300 million in humanitarian aid to conflict-hit neighbors Iraq and Yemen, the foreign ministry announced Wednesday.

Kuwait is to send $300 million in humanitarian aid to conflict-hit neighbors Iraq and Yemen, the foreign ministry announced Wednesday.

The oil-rich Gulf state will send $200 million to Iraq and $100 million to Yemen "amidst a humanitarian crisis in the region", said the ministry's international organizations head Jassem al-Mubaraki, quoted by state news agency KUNA.

Fierce battles have been raging in Iraq between Takfiri militants and the army backed by Popular Mobilization forces.

Yemen has been since March 26 under brutal aggression by Saudi-US coalition.

Thousands of Yemenis have been martyred and injured in the attack, with the vast majority of them are civilians.