Tag: Yemen

Saleh will only quit if rivals not in power

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in an interview published on Friday that he will only step down if key rivals do not assume...

Two killed in Yemen fighting

Two tribesmen were killed in fierce clashes on Thursday in Yemen’s capital between troops loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh and rival tribesmen...

Yemen minister escapes assassination bid

Yemeni Defence Minister Mohammad Nasser Ahmad Ali escaped an assassination bid by a suicide bomber Tuesday in the southern port city of Aden but...

Dozens more killed in Yemen after Saleh peace vow

Dozens of people were killed during clashes in the Yemeni capital Saturday, a day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned following three months away...

Saleh returns to Yemen, calls for ceasefire

President Ali Abdullah Saleh unexpectedly returned to Yemen on Friday after three months in Saudi Arabia, calling for a ceasefire between his supporters and...

Six killed as fighting rages in Yemen capital: sources

Yemen's capital was rocked on Friday by fresh street clashes, with troops and tribal rivals trading machine-gun and artillery fire, witnesses said, as another...

Saleh returns from Saudi as battles rage

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to Sanaa on Friday after more than three months of medical treatment in Saudi Arabia, even as his...

Rival troops battle in Yemen capital

Six people died as rival troops battled in the streets of the Yemeni capital for a fifth straight day Thursday, following the failure of...

New US drone bases to strike Somalia, Yemen: report

The United States is building an array of secret new drone bases to conduct strikes against Al-Qaeda targets in Somalia and Yemen, according to...

60 dead as violence rocks Yemen capital

Gunfire and shelling rocked Sanaa for the third straight day on Tuesday as the death toll from the worst outbreak of violence in Yemen’s...

2 more killed as shells hit Yemen protest camp: witnesses

Rockets hit a protest camp in Yemen's capital Sanaa, killing at least two people on Tuesday, witnesses said, on the third day of violence...

20 killed as protesters throng Yemen capital

Yemeni security forces Monday killed 20 people, including three dissident soldiers and two children, raising the death toll to 46 since Sunday, medics said,...

Yemen Qaeda affiliate most dangerous: CIA chief

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, has emerged as the “most dangerous” affiliate of the extremist group as the terrorism threat...

Yemen ruling party wants Saleh to allow power-transfer talks

A delegation from Yemen’s ruling party headed Thursday to Riyadh to seek permission from convalescing President Ali Abdullah Saleh for his deputy to negotiate...

Yemen PM to return from Riyadh after attack on Saleh

Yemen's prime minister will return home later on Tuesday from Saudi Arabia, where he has been recovering from injuries suffered in a June assassination...

6 suspected Qaeda gunmen killed in Yemen

Six suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen have been killed in the south Yemen province of Abyan in an air raid by government forces, a local official...

11 killed in Yemen suicide attacks

Eleven Yemeni tribesmen were killed overnight in two suicide attacks in the southern province of Abyan, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda, tribal sources and medics...