Sanaa: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Tuesday he would soon return home from Saudi Arabia where he is recovering from a June assassination attempt that followed months of mass protests against his 33 years in power. Saleh's return would dismay demonstrators who had hoped his sojourn in Riyadh would become permanent and would also irk the United States, which has urged its former ally to stay away. "See...
02:31 AM, Aug 17, 2011
Sanaa: A new wave of fighting erupted in Yemen in a southern provincial capital that has been overrun by extremist militants, killing at least 17 al Qaeda-linked fighters and three soldiers, a military official said on Sunday. The official said the clashes took place in and around Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province. The city, along with several southern towns, has been overrun by al Qaeda-linked militants in the last...
11:03 PM, Aug 14, 2011
Dubai: US officials have convinced Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, convalescing in Saudi Arabia from an assassination attempt, not to return to his country, the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported on Monday. The report came a day after the veteran Arab leader left hospital in Riyadh and was moved to a government residence for further recuperation, as mass protests against his 33-year rule wore into their seventh month. Yemeni officials...
03:32 AM, Aug 09, 2011
Riyadh: Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh left hospital in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, government and medical sources said, two months after suffering severe injuries in an assassination attempt on his palace compound in Sanaa. The sources said Saleh had gone to a Saudi government residence in the Saudi capital Riyadh. They described him as in "good condition" and walking. ...
08:13 PM, Aug 07, 2011
Sanaa: A suicide bomber drove a booby-trapped car into an army checkpoint outside Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding 21 others, officials and medical sources said. The attack, which the government blamed on al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, comes weeks after the army deployed security forces to surround the coastal city, which lies east of a shipping strait where some 3 million...
08:31 PM, Jul 24, 2011
New Delhi: A UAE-based vessel carrying 16 members on board including five Indians were hijacked by Somali pirates off an Island which forms part of Yemen. Sources in the Ministry of Shipping on Thursday said they were trying to ascertain the details of the Indians who were part of the 16-member crew that has been hijacked by pirates on July 16. Vessel MV Jubba of Juba General Trading was on...
08:58 PM, Jul 21, 2011
Sanaa: Supporters and opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh staged competing marches in Yemen's capital on Friday, a day after his first TV appearance in a month, highlighting the deep political rift that could tear apart this impoverished, gun-ridden nation. Saleh appeared on state TV late Thursday, a first since flying to Saudi Arabia a month ago to treat wounds sustained in an attack on his palace. The video showed...
01:32 AM, Jul 09, 2011
Sanaa, Yemen: Yemen's embattled president, looking weakened and stiff, on Thursday made his first public appearance since he was injured in a blast on his palace compound last month, in an apparent bid to dispel growing speculation about his condition. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is undergoing treatment in Saudi Arabia, lashed out at opponents seeking to oust him from power, but his dramatically changed appearance belied his show of...
03:14 AM, Jul 08, 2011
Sanaa, Yemen: Yemeni security forces clashed with Islamist fighters near a southern town overrun by militants, leaving seven Islamists and a soldier dead, officials said, as tens of thousands staged rallies across Yemen calling for the president to step down. Security across the impoverished nation in the southern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, home to an active al-Qaida branch, has largely collapsed since the uprising seeking to oust President Ali...
03:36 AM, Jul 07, 2011
Islamabad: The wives and children of Osama bin Laden detained in Pakistan will only be repatriated once a government-appointed commission investigating the al Qaeda leader's killing allows them to leave, the panel said. Sixteen people, including bin Laden's three wives and several children, were detained by Pakistani security forces after US special forces killed bin Laden in the northwestern garrison town of Abbottabad on May 2. Pakistani officials had said...
02:17 PM, Jul 06, 2011
Khartuom: A ship carrying African migrants bound for Saudi Arabia has caught fire and 197 people are feared drowned off Sudan's northeastern coast, a semiofficial news agency reported on Tuesday. The Sudan Media Center said three of the migrants were rescued. The ship had launched from the Red Sea State and sailed for four hours in Sudanese territorial waters before the blaze began, according to the news agency. Local authorities...
02:20 AM, Jul 06, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's president, hospitalized in Saudi Arabia after an attack nearly a month ago on his palace, has instructed his deputy to hold talks with political opponents on a deal to transfer power and end the nation's spiraling political crisis, his foreign minister said on Wednesday. The opposition, wary after numerous pledges, dismissed the announcement. Abu Bakr al-Qirbi, the foreign minister, was speaking from neighboring Saudi Arabia after a quick...
02:59 AM, Jun 30, 2011
Sanaa: At least 26 Yemen government soldiers and 17 Islamist militants linked to al Qaeda were killed on Wednesday in heavy fighting for control of a stadium near the southern city of Zinjibar, officials said. The military setback, following reports that 300 of his soldiers had defected to the opposition, was another blow to President Ali Abdullah Saleh as recovers in Saudi Arabia from injuries sustained in an attack on...
02:51 AM, Jun 30, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni government warplanes and artillery pounded several villages of anti-government tribes north of the capital on Tuesday, killing at least three people, a senior tribal leader said. Sheik Ali Youssef of the Naham tribe said that Republican Guard forces, which are commanded by embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh's son, began bombarding the villages scattered in the Naham mountain area, some 20 miles (30 kilometers) north of Sanaa, on Monday,...
01:51 AM, Jun 29, 2011
Dubai: Yemen is considering using force to secure and repair its main oil pipeline, blown up in an attack by angry tribesmen in mid-March, a senior Yemeni official told Reuters on Tuesday. The comments came amid a persistent political impasse over the fate of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is recovering in Saudi Arabia from wounds suffered in a June 3 attack, and continuing unrest in the south, where nine...
01:00 AM, Jun 29, 2011
Sanaa: Islamic militants have consolidated their hold over a southern city in Yemen, forcing merchants to lower food prices and helping residents who want to flee shelling by government forces outside the city, residents said on Monday. In contrast, militants in control of another nearby city are enforcing a stringent version of Islamic rule, forcing women to stay home and trying to recruit young men to their ranks, according to...
02:25 AM, Jun 28, 2011
Riyaadh: Wounded Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, not seen in public since an attack on his palace in early June, is well enough to soon return to Yemen and will make a media appearance within the next couple of days. Speculation about Saleh's health and the likelihood of his return to Yemen have been rife since he was hurt when a bomb went off on June 3 in a mosque...
11:57 PM, Jun 26, 2011
Sanaa: A car bomb believed to have been set off be a suicide attacker killed three Yemeni security personnel on Friday in the southern city of Aden, the government said, as residents grew fearful of a possible attempt by Islamic militants to seize control of the strategic port city. The government quickly said it suspected al Qaeda was behind the bomb in Aden's free-trade zone, which went off after anti-government...
07:34 AM, Jun 25, 2011
Islamabad: Officials in Pakistan say the country has agreed to let Osama bin Laden's youngest widow return to her native Yemen. But they would not reveal when she'll leave. Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah, two other widows and eight of bin Laden's children were detained following the May 2 US raid that killed the al-Qaeda chief in the northwestern Pakistani city of Abbottabad. A Pakistani security official said on Friday that Pakistan...
06:05 PM, Jun 24, 2011
Sanaa, Yemen: At least 57 al-Qaeda militants escaped from prison on Wednesday in the latest sign that Yemen's political upheaval has emboldened them to challenge authorities in the country's nearly lawless south. In a carefully choreographed escape, the militants attacked their guards and seized their weapons just as bands of heavily armed attackers descended on the prison in Mukalla on the Arabian Sea. The escapees included militants convicted on terror...
03:26 PM, Jun 22, 2011
