Islamabad: Pakistan has contacted the governments of Saudi Arabia and Yemen to arrange the repatriation of Osama bin Laden's three widows and their children, Pakistani officials said on Friday. The development came after a judicial commission probing the Al Qaeda leader's presence in Pakistan announced on Thursday that it had withdrawn its order barring bin Laden's family from leaving the country. Authorities had contacted Saudi Arabia and Yemen to arrange...
11:51 PM, Oct 07, 2011
Islamabad: The Pakistani judicial commission investigating the killing of Osama bin Laden has interviewed the al Qaeda leader's widows and daughters for the first time, the panel said Wednesday. The "exhaustive interview" of bin Laden's three widows and two daughters was conducted on Tuesday, said a brief statement issued by the commission. It did not give details. The commission headed by former Supreme Court judge Javed Iqbal was on Wednesday...
07:39 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Sanaa: Mortar fire killed two Yemenis and wounded six in Sanaa on Tuesday in what appeared to be fighting in the capital between soldiers loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and troops siding with anti-government protesters. A doctor said the victims were civilians hit by a mortar round that landed in a market in a district contested by government troops and those of rebel general Ali Mohsen, a former Saleh...
12:27 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Sanaa: A government warplane has mistakenly bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers and wounding many more, military and medical officials said on Sunday. The officials said the bombing, which took place on Saturday evening in the southern Abyan province, targeted an abandoned school used as shelter by soldiers of the army's 119th Brigade. The school is located just east of Abyan's provincial capital Zinjibar,...
04:11 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni medical and military officials on Sunday said a government warplane had mistakenly bombed an army position in the country's south, killing at least 30 soldiers. The officials said that the bombing took place on Saturday evening in the southern Abyan province amid fighting with militants. They added that the soldiers of the army's 119th brigade were stationed at an abandoned school just outside the capital of Abyan province,...
02:49 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Washington: The Department of State has warned US citizens worldwide about possible retaliation attacks after the death of a radical US-born cleric in Yemen. Anwar al-Awlaki, along with several other militants, was killed early on Friday in eastern Yemen in what Yemeni newspapers say was a suspected CIA drone strike. "The death of Awlaki, in the near term, could provide motivation for anti-American attacks worldwide from individuals or groups seeking...
09:11 AM, Oct 02, 2011
Washington: The death Anwar al-Awlaki, leader of al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is not only a major blow to the terrorist outfit, but also marks another significant milestone in the effort to defeat the organisation and its affiliates, US President Barack Obama said on Friday. "The death of Awlaki is a major blow to al-Qaeda's most active operational affiliate. Awlaki was the leader of external operations for al-Qaeda in the...
09:47 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Sanaa: Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric linked to al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, was killed in an air strike on Friday, Yemeni and US officials said, removing a "global terrorist" high on a US wanted list. Awlaki's killing, if confirmed, deprives al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) of an eloquent preacher seen as its most talented English-language propagandist who has advocated - and been implicated in - attacks on the...
06:00 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Sanaa (Yemen): The Yemeni government has released an official statement saying the US-born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki has been killed. The government says al-Awlaki was targeted and killed 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the town of Khashef in the Province of al-Jawf. The town is located 87 miles (140 kilometers) east of the capital Sanaa. The statement says the operation was launched on Friday around 9:55 AM. It gave...
03:25 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Sanaa: Anti-government tribesmen overran an army base housing an elite unit north of Yemen's capital early Monday, security officials said, capturing 30 soldiers and dealing a blow to the prestige of the powerful Republican Guards led by the son of the country's embattled president. Yemen has been wracked by violence since February when an uprising broke out to demand the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Government forces have killed...
05:44 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Washington: Deeply concerned over the current situation in Yemen, the US on Sunday asked President Ali Abdullah Saleh to begin a "full transfer of power" immediately after a week of unrest claimed nearly 200 lives in the country. "We again urge President Saleh to initiate a full transfer of power without delay and arrange for presidential elections to be held before the end of the year within the framework of...
12:09 PM, Sep 25, 2011
Sanaa: Fighting between pro- and anti-government forces spread through Yemen's capital on Thursday and snipers shot dead two protesters and wounded 14 others, diminishing the chances of a diplomatic solution to prevent the country sliding into civil war. Gunbattles and shelling between state troops and soldiers backing a protest movement bent on unseating President Ali Abdullah Saleh shook areas near "Change Square," the name demonstrators have given the street where...
02:06 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni government forces on Wednesday fired mortars at tens of thousands of mourners at funerals held for protesters killed in clashes and attacked an opposition base, shattering a cease-fire negotiated a day earlier to end the Arab nation's latest bout of deadly violence. The two attacks killed 16 people. The mourners were gathered for funeral prayers for anti-government protesters killed in a deadly, three-day government crackdown in which the...
02:52 AM, Sep 22, 2011
Sanaa: Raging battles between government forces and military units opposed to Yemen's president killed 12 people in the capital on Tuesday as a crisis over a violent state crackdown on popular unrest drifted towards civil war. Despite an order from the vice president for a ceasefire, the afternoon calm was broken by explosions and machine gun fire. Witnesses said two mortars hit at the end of a street where thousands...
12:51 AM, Sep 21, 2011
Sanaa (Yemen): Thousands of protesters backed by military defectors seized a base of the elite Republican Guards, weakening the control of Yemen's embattled president over this poor, fractured Arab nation. His forces fired on unarmed demonstrators elsewhere in the capital, killing scores, wounding hundreds and sparking international condemnation. The protesters, joined by soldiers from the renegade 1st Armored Division, stormed the base without firing a single shot, according to witnesses...
03:30 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Sanaa: Thousands of protesters backed by military defectors seized a base of the elite Republican Guards on Monday, weakening the control of Yemen's embattled president over this poor, fractured Arab nation. His forces fired on unarmed demonstrators elsewhere in the capital, killing scores, wounding hundreds and sparking international condemnation. The protesters, joined by soldiers from the renegade 1st Armored Division, stormed the base without firing a single shot, according to...
02:11 AM, Sep 20, 2011
Sanaa: At least 25 people were shot dead and hundreds wounded on Sunday when demonstrators camped in a square in Yemen's capital Sanaa tried to charge police lines in a dramatic escalation of protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh. A witness saw security forces firing at protesters from buildings overhead as well as using water cannon and tear gas to hold back tens of thousands of protesters, some wielding batons...
01:21 AM, Sep 19, 2011
Aden: Yemen's defence minister narrowly escaped death on Tuesday after his convoy drove over a landmine in the country's south, where the army is fighting militants suspected of links to al Qaeda. A government official said General Mohammed Nasser Ahmed was not hurt by the blast, which killed two of his guards and wounded four others during a visit to the southern province of Abyan. The minister had been touring...
02:33 AM, Aug 31, 2011
Sanaa: A new round of fierce fighting in southern Yemen killed 10 soldiers and 26 militants, military officials said on Monday, the latest battle in a government campaign to retake territory from al Qaeda-linked fighters. Another 38 militants and about 30 soldiers were wounded in the clashes that took place near the city of Dufas in the southern province of Abyan, they said. The officials, who spoke on condition of...
12:41 AM, Aug 30, 2011
Sanaa: A pair of suicide bombings targeting anti-al-Qaida tribesmen in southern Yemen killed 11 people on Sunday, tribal and security officials said. Both blasts took place in Abyan province, where al-Qaida-linked militants have been taking advantage of a breakdown in security linked to Yemen's political turmoil to take over towns and large swaths of territory in the south. In the deadliest attack, a suicide bomber slammed an explosives-laden car into...
10:31 PM, Aug 21, 2011
