Tag: Yemeni

Yemeni army chief-of-staff injured in mine blast

ADEN: The chief of staff of the Yemeni army has been injured by a landmine that went off while he was visiting the northern...

Gulf-backed Yemeni forces seize city from al Qaeda

Yemeni forces backed by Apache helicopters from a Saudi-led coalition wrested the city of Houta from al Qaeda fighters after a gun battle on...

Houthis seize Yemeni provincial capital near Saudia

Houthi forces and their army allies in Yemen seized the capital of a large desert province on the border with Saudi Arabia on Sunday,...

Saudi-led airstrikes hit Yemeni capital hours before truce

Airstrikes on rocket base in Sanaa kills 90 people and wounds 300 Saudi-led air strikes pounded the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday just hours...

Yemeni militiamen say captured two Iranian officers in Aden

Militia claims arrested officers are from Quds Force and were working as advisers to Houthi militia Local militiamen in the Yemeni city of Aden said...

Yemeni al Qaeda executes 14 soldiers

Al Qaeda in Yemen posted a video online purporting to show the abduction and execution of 14 soldiers the militants alleged were “apostates”. The reported...

Yemeni al Qaeda operative killed in South Waziristan drone attack

A US drone fired missiles at a vehicle in South Waziristan region on Saturday, killing at least one man suspected to be an al...

Saudi diplomat killed in Yemeni capital

A Saudi diplomat and his bodyguard have been killed when their car came under fire in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, officials say. The Saudi...

Gunmen kill Yemeni security staff at US mission

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior Yemeni security official employed by the US embassy in Sanaa in a hit-and-run attack on Thursday, a security...

Suicide bomber kills anti-Qaeda Yemeni general

A suicide bomber on Monday killed the army general spearheading a blistering offensive against Al-Qaeda in south Yemen, throwing himself on the officer’s vehicle...

Yemen army seizes third city after Qaeda pullout

Yemeni troops took control of the southern city of Shuqra on Friday after Al-Qaeda militants pulled out of the third jihadist bastion to fall...

96 killed as Yemeni soldier turns bomber

A Yemeni soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa on Monday, killing...

Swiss woman’s Yemeni captors want OBL wives freed

A bid to release a Swiss woman kidnapped in Yemen has suffered a blow after her abductors made excessive demands, including for Osama bin...

139 Yemeni troops killed in Qaeda assault

At least 139 Yemeni soldiers have been killed in clashes with suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen after the extremists attacked military positions in Yemen’s restive south,...

Al Qaeda overruns town near Yemeni capital

Al Qaeda militants swept into the Yemen town of Rada overnight and overran it within hours, marking a significant advance by the extremists towards...

2 Yemeni soldiers killed as thousands rally for secession

Gunmen shot dead two Yemeni soldiers Wednesday in the main southern city of Aden, a police official said, as thousands rallied there to call...

Yemeni govt troops battle opponents, 8 dead

At least eight people were killed in Yemen’s capital Sanaa in overnight clashes between government forces and fighters allied with activists demanding an end...