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
Sanaa: The head of Yemen's most powerful tribal confederation warned Tuesday in a letter to the Saudi king that Yemen could plunge into civil war if President Ali Abdullah Saleh is allowed to return home. Saleh is currently in Saudi Arabia, where he is receiving treatment for serious injuries from a blast early this month at his palace in the Yemeni capital that left him with severe burns and chunks...
03:34 AM, Jun 22, 2011
Fourteen suspected Somali pirates and three Yemeni nationals were detained off the coast of Gujarat late on Sunday night. ...
01:00 PM, Jun 20, 2011
Mumbai: Police on Sunday said that the anonymous phone call from Yemen claiming that Indian Mujahideen (IM) was behind the murder of crime reporter J Dey, could to be hoax. "The probe indicates it was a hoax call. But we want to double check before coming to a conclusion that it was a hoax call. We are in touch with the authorities of Yemen," a senior police officer said. On...
07:33 PM, Jun 19, 2011
Sanaa: More than 100 influential religious clerics and tribal leaders called for the Yemeni president's ouster and elections to choose a new leader, adding their weight to the opposition movement seeking to end nearly 33 years of autocratic rule by Ali Abdullah Saleh. The president, who has clung to power despite four months of protests, is undergoing treatment in neighboring Saudi Arabia for serious burns and other injuries from a...
08:12 AM, Jun 19, 2011
Mumbai: A week after the murder of the senior crime reporter Jyotirmoy Dey, the police control room in Mumbai on Saturday received an anonymous phone call from Yemen with the caller saying Indian Mujahideen (IM) was behind the killing. "A person called from Yemen and said that the IM hired shooters from Kashmir and bumped Dey off," a senior Crime Branch official said. However the police are verifying the call...
08:01 PM, Jun 18, 2011
Sanaa: Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis demonstrated in nearly every major city of the country on Tuesday, demanding trial for the family and close aides of the ailing president. They were the largest protests since President Ali Abdullah Saleh went abroad for medical treatment for injuries suffered in an attack on his compound. Some of Saleh's family and closest aides remained behind, and Yemen remains locked in a power struggle...
10:29 PM, Jun 14, 2011
Sanna: Further talks to resolve Yemen's political crisis have failed after the deputy to wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to speak with groups demanding he cede power immediately, opposition figures said. Saleh, forced to seek medical treatment in Saudi Arabia for wounds suffered in an attack on his palace nine days ago, has withstood nearly six months of street protests and multiple diplomatic attempts to nudge him out of...
07:16 PM, Jun 12, 2011
Sanaa: Twenty one al Qaeda members and nine Yemeni soldiers were killed in fighting on Saturday in a province where the main city was seized by Islamist militants during the chaos of the country's bloody political crisis. Thousands of people have already fled the clashes between the army and al Qaeda in the southern province of Abyan, whose capital Zinjibar fell to the militants last month. President Ali Abdullah Saleh's...
07:12 AM, Jun 12, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's political upheaval has emboldened suspected al-Qaida militants who have seized a provincial capital and now are operating openly in the lawless south, training with live ammunition and controlling roads with checkpoints. The US fears the power vacuum will give even freer rein to al-Qaida's branch in Yemen - already the terror network's most active franchise. Yemen's government said on Thursday that troops killed 12 suspected al-Qaida militants as...
09:18 AM, Jun 10, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's injuries from a rocket attack on his palace at the weekend were more serious than previously reported, a Yemeni official said, raising further questions about his rule. Saleh was initially said to have received a shrapnel wound, and his Vice President was quoted on Monday as saying the President would return to Yemen within days from Saudi Arabia where he is being treated. The...
01:16 AM, Jun 08, 2011
New Delhi: With more people getting killed in clashes in Yemen, India on Tuesday renewed its appeal to its nationals and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) to leave the Arab country urgently and reminded them to avail of the Indian embassy's helplines which have been used by barely a dozen people so far. This was the third advisory issued by the Indian external affairs ministry in a fortnight. "All Indian...
05:06 PM, Jun 07, 2011
Sanaa: The United States on Monday called on Yemen to move towards democracy while President Ali Abdullah Saleh recovers from shrapnel wounds in Saudi Arabia. While Yemen's acting leader insisted Saleh would return in days, diplomats and analysts feel Saleh's stay in Saudi Arabia may be prolonged as regional heavyweight Riyadh tries to press Saleh to hand over power to prevent its neighbour imploding. "We are calling for a peaceful...
01:53 AM, Jun 07, 2011
Sanaa: Saudi Arabia has brokered a fresh truce between a powerful Yemeni tribal federation and forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Saudi source said on Saturday, and a tribal leader said his followers were abiding by it. A Saudi-brokered truce agreed a week ago held for only a day before fresh street battles broke out in the capital Sanaa, leading to the most intense fighting there since the...
12:08 AM, Jun 05, 2011
Sanaa: President Ali Abdullah Saleh was recovering from head wounds on Saturday, officials said, a day after an attack on his palace escalated a conflict that has brought Yemen to the brink of civil war. Yemeni and Saudi officials dismissed reports on Arabiya TV that Saleh had left for neighboring Saudi Arabia, where six wounded officials, including the prime minister, have gone for medical treatment. Global powers have been pressing...
10:36 PM, Jun 04, 2011
Washington: US has condemned the violence in Yemen, including the attack on the Presidential Palace in Sanaa, and called for an immediate end to hostilities. "We call on all sides to cease hostilities immediately and to pursue an orderly and peaceful process of transferring political power as called for in the GCC-brokered agreement," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said in a statement. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded...
02:23 PM, Jun 04, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when opposition tribesmen determined to topple him hammered his palace with rockets on Friday in a major escalation of nearly two weeks of fighting with government forces. At least four guards were killed and seven top officials were also wounded, an official said. The official said Saleh suffered light injuries to the neck and was treated in the palace. Yemeni state TV...
07:26 PM, Jun 03, 2011
Sanaa: Republican Guard shelling and pre-dawn street battles between government forces and rival tribal fighters killed at least 41 people in the capital on Wednesday. There were growing signs of disarray in beleaguered President Ali Abdullah Saleh's military. Fighting raged until 5 am, and witnesses said Presidential Guard units shelled the headquarters of an army brigade responsible for guarding sensitive government institutions. Army officers who have defected to the opposition...
05:13 PM, Jun 01, 2011
Sanaa: The Yemeni air force bombed an al Qaeda-held southern city on Monday while residents in another city said soldiers had opened fire on a demonstration and run protesters over with bulldozers, killing at least 15. There were flashpoints across civil-war-threatened Yemen including six soldiers being killed in what appeared to be an ambush near Zinjibar, a coastal city taken over a few days ago by Islamist and al Qaeda...
11:50 PM, May 30, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on protesters in the southern city of Taiz on Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding 120, hospital sources said. A photographer at the scene said police fired live ammunition, tear gas and used water cannons to disperse demonstrators protesting outside a municipal building to demand the release of a fellow protester who was arrested on Saturday. The...
08:23 AM, May 30, 2011
