Tag: Yemen
Saleh returns to Yemen after poll date set
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to Yemen overnight from Riyadh, where he signed a deal to step down under which a new presidential...
Obama urges Yemen to implement ‘historic transition’
US President Barack Obama urged Yemen on Wednesday to immediately implement a deal under which President Ali Abdullah Saleh has agreed to hand over...
Yemen’s Saleh finally signs deal to quit power
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal on Wednesday to hand over his powers after 33 years in office, ending months of delay...
Saleh to sign exit plan but Yemen protests rage on
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to sign a Gulf plan that will finally end his 33-year rule, a UN...
Yemen’s Saleh to sign exit plan Wednesday
Yemen's veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh is to sign in Riyadh on Wednesday a Gulf plan under which he will finally cede power, the...
Parties agree to transition plan, says UN Yemen envoy
The UN’s Yemen envoy said on Tuesday a Gulf sponsored power-transfer deal aimed at ending months of political deadlock has been approved both by...
Power handover deal close: Yemeni vice president
Yemen’s vice president said late Saturday the government and the opposition were close to finalising a deal aimed at easing President Ali Abdullah Saleh...
Qaeda-linked militants lash five Yemenis for drug use
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen handed out 80 lashes each to five youths they said had taken narcotic pills in the latest show of...
Clashes and protests erupt in Yemen for second day
Fierce clashes erupted in Yemen's second city Saturday as protesters in the capital Sanaa condemned international silence in the face of a government crackdown...
9 dead in Yemen clashes
Forces loyal to Yemeni President Abdullah Saleh shelled the country’s second largest city Taez early on Friday, killing nine people, among them two women...
UN envoy to make new push for Yemen power transfer
A UN envoy returned to Yemen on Thursday in a fresh bid to persuade Ali Abdullah Saleh to hand over power under a Gulf-brokered...
Five Qaeda suspects killed in south Yemen
Five Al-Qaeda suspects, among them an Indonesian, were killed in artillery shelling on their strongholds in Yemen's south, a government official said Tuesday.
"Two Al-Qaeda...
Yemen army kills five Al Qaeda suspects in Zinjibar
Five Al-Qaeda suspects were killed in artillery shelling by Yemen’s army in the country’s restive southern city of Zinjibar, officials said on Saturday. “The...
At least five killed in renewed Yemen violence
At least five people have been killed in renewed violence in Yemen's capital and second largest city, medics and activists said on Wednesday, after...
Yemeni militants deny death of senior Al Qaeda member
An Islamist group linked to al Qaeda has denied that its media chief was killed in an air raid in southern Yemen two weeks...
Sanaa airport closes after air force base blasts
SANAA - Four explosions rocked an air base in Sanaa on Sunday, setting two fighter jets on fire and prompting the closure of the...
Five killed by Yemen pro-govt forces
Four people, including three children, were killed overnight when troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh shelled a petrol filling station in a...
