The United Nations agreed on Friday to set up a panel to examine all alleged human rights violations committed in Yemen's war and identify those responsible.

In a last-minute compromise hammered out between Western powers and Arab countries, the UN Human Rights Council adopted by consensus, without a vote, a resolution that the Yemeni delegation accepted.

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights who will name the international experts to the panel, has called three years in a row for an inquiry into alleged war crimes in Yemen, saying that a national commission has proved inadequate.