Tag: Yemen

The killing of a local Al-Qaeda leader by his half brother sparked vicious tribal infighting in his stronghold southeast of Yemen’s capital Sanaa on...

A man was killed Tuesday when a bomb exploded as he was planting it in a polling booth in Yemen’s southern city of Aden,...

Overnight air raids struck an Al-Qaeda meeting and control post in southern Yemen, killing around 15 people including a long-hunted regional militant leader, tribal...

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is due to step down next month, arrived Saturday in the United States on a politically sensitive visit...

President Ali Abdullah Saleh was en route to the United States for medical treatment, Yemen’s state news agency said on Monday, after delivering a...

Two suspected Al-Qaeda fighters were killed in clashes with Yemeni troops in the restive southern province of Abyan, a local official said on Sunday....

The Yemeni parliament adopted on Saturday a law giving veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh immunity from prosecution in return for stepping down under a...

Twenty-five gunmen have been killed in three days of fighting between tribesmen and Shiite rebels in Yemen’s troubled north, an official said on Sunday. The...

Twenty gunmen were killed Thursday in clashes between Zaidi Shia rebels and Sunni Salafist gunmen in northern Yemen, a security official said. Clashes erupted...

Unidentified gunmen killed a Yemeni intelligence official and wounded seven others in an attack on their mini-bus in the southern port city of Aden,...

Yemeni troops killed five fighters on Tuesday from an Islamist group that has controlled the capital of a southern province since May, a local...

Never too early for campaigning While the elections are scheduled for the beginning of 2013, what one sees happening around gives the impression of the...

Twelve alleged Al-Qaeda militants plus two other inmates have tunnelled their way to freedom from a prison in the south Yemen city of Aden,...

Weekend clashes in southern Yemen left two government soldiers and 11 suspected members of Al-Qaeda dead, military and local sources told AFP Saturday. Government...

Prime minister-designate Mohammed Basindawa is expected to announce a national unity government within two days, a European diplomat and a Yemeni official said on...

Clashes between forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and dissident tribesmen in the country's second-largest city Taez killed eight people, five of...

Shiite rebels killed 20 people and wounded 70 others in an attack on a Sunni Islamist school in northern Yemen, a tribal source said...