Sanaa: An al Qaeda group tightened its grip on a Yemeni coastal town while in the capital Sanaa a truce was holding on Sunday to end nearly a week of deadly street fighting that threatened to ignite a civil war. Opposition leaders charged President Ali Abdullah Saleh with allowing the city of Zinjibar, on the Gulf of Aden, to fall to the militants in order to raise alarm in the...
07:29 PM, May 29, 2011
Sanaa: A sense of calm returned to Yemen's embattled capital on Sunday hours after armed tribesman and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces reached a truce to halt clashes threatening to plunge the state into civil war. Pedestrians and cars returned to Sanaa streets where pitched battles in nearly a week of fighting killed at least 115 and raised global worries over the impoverished country perched next to a crucial shipping...
02:15 PM, May 29, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni tribesmen said they wrested a military compound from elite troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside the capital Sanaa on Friday as increased fighting threatened to tip the country into civil war. Tribal leader Sheikh Hamid Asim told Reuters his fighters killed the base's military commander and a separate tribal source said the Yemeni air force dropped bombs to prevent the tribesmen from seizing an arms cache...
07:21 PM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: India on Friday asked all its nationals living in Yemen to leave that country through whatever commercial means available in view of the increased violence in which at least 150 people have been killed so far. "Keeping in view the evolving situation and the increase in violent incidents in Yemen, all Indian nationals living in the country are advised to exit the country through whatever commercial means available,"...
03:11 PM, May 27, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday vowed he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a "failed state" even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital. Both sides raised the specter of civil war as the three-day death toll rose to at least 63. The latest violence comes just days after a failed Arab mediation effort...
08:36 AM, May 26, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed on Wednesday he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a "failed state" even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital. Both sides raised the specter of civil war as the three-day death toll rose to at least 63. The latest violence comes just days after a failed Arab mediation effort...
12:34 AM, May 26, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday that al Qaeda could take over in many parts of the Arabian Peninsula country if he leaves office under a Gulf-brokered deal which he said he has accepted. Saleh has twice backed out of the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) transition deal, most recently on Wednesday, despite diplomatic wrangling by US, Gulf and European officials. But a Yemeni official said Abdullatif al-Zayani,...
07:16 PM, May 21, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday that al Qaeda could take over in many parts of the Arabian Peninsula country if he leaves office under a Gulf-brokered deal which he said he has accepted. Saleh has twice backed out of the Gulf Cooperation Council's (GCC) transition deal, most recently on Wednesday, despite diplomatic wrangling by US, Gulf and European officials. But a Yemeni official said Abdullatif al-Zayani,...
07:00 PM, May 21, 2011
Islamabad: Yemeni al Qaeda operative Abu Sohaib Al-Makki, arrested by Pakistani security agencies was a 'key courier' between slain terror mastermind Osama bin Laden and his deputy Aiman al-Zawahiri. Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub alias Abu Sohaib Al-Makki, described as a "senior al Qaeda operative", was arrested by security agencies in Karachi, the military announced on Tuesday. Yaqub was one of the main couriers between bin Laden, who was killed in...
11:22 AM, May 18, 2011
London: A Yemeni national has demanded that Pakistani authorities release his sister Amal, one of the wives of slain al-Qeada chief Osama bin Laden. Zakaria al Sada, whose sister Amal was injured during a special US operation that killed Osama in Abbottabad in northwestern Pakistan, spoke for her release in an interview to The Sunday Telegraph. 29-year-old Amal is currently being held in Pakistan after being shot in the leg...
03:12 PM, May 16, 2011
Washington: US investigation officials have stumbled upon an unreleased video of Osama bin Laden which shows the slain al Qaeda chief speaking on the recent unrest in the Middle East but has no reference to the uprisings in Libya, Yemen and Syria. The CIA-led inter agency Task Force officials said the video was apparently recorded a few days before Osama was shot dead at his Abbottabad hideout on May 2...
07:48 AM, May 14, 2011
Dubai: Slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden's detained relatives, including his 29-year-old Yemeni widow, will be repatriated back to their home countries after their initial interrogations are completed, a Pakistani diplomat has said. Bin Laden's Yemeni widow Amal Ahmed Abdul Fattah was with her husband in a bedroom when US special forces stormed the house. She was shot in the leg while attempting to defend her husband and is currently...
02:38 PM, May 09, 2011
Islamabad: The United States says it wants to talk to the three widows of Osama bin Laden, who are in Pakistani custody. National security adviser Tom Donilon says information from them could help answer questions about whether Pakistani authorities helped hide the al Qaeda leader while he was on the run. He made the comments in an interview broadcast on Sunday NBC's "Meet the Press." Bin Laden was shot dead...
08:11 PM, May 08, 2011
Washington: The US drone aircraft attack that killed two mid-level al Qaeda terrorists in Yemen on Thursday was targeting the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a US-born radical known for encouraging attacks on the United States, US media reported. CBS News and The Wall Street Journal, citing Yemeni and US officials, said on Friday that Anwar al-Awlaki was not hit when a missile was fired at a...
09:28 AM, May 07, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's Gulf-brokered deal to remove President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power was on the verge of collapse on Sunday after Saleh refused to sign, raising the threat of further instability in the Arabian Peninsula state. Gulf Cooperation Council mediators told Yemen's opposition on Saturday he would sign as leader of his party but had refused to sign in his capacity as president as required by the deal. Saleh, long...
04:51 PM, May 01, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's president was to sign an agreement on Saturday to quit power in a month's time in exchange for immunity, a deal rejected by street protesters demanding he step down immediately and face prosecution. Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled the Arabian Peninsula state for nearly 33 years, has in principle accepted the agreement negotiated by the six-state Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). His departure would make Saleh the third...
05:31 PM, Apr 30, 2011
Tripoli: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi overran a western rebel outpost on the Tunisian border on Thursday, with fighting spilling onto Tunisian territory, witnesses said. The attack appeared to be part of a broader government move to root out rebel outposts beyond the confines of their eastern heartland. Rebels said the western mountain town of Zintan came under fire from multiple-launch Grad rockets seen as especially hazardous to...
11:18 PM, Apr 28, 2011
Sanaa: Yemen's veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh has struck a defiant tone in an interview, a day after his government said he had accepted a Gulf Arab plan to hand over power within weeks. Saleh has faced down three months of street protests as well as pressure to go from his main backers Saudi Arabia and the United States, and opposition groups fear his verbal acceptance of the plan may...
02:21 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Sanaa: Yemeni protesters demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh's removal vowed to step up street protests and said Saleh's inner circle could still frustrate a Gulf plan for him step down. Saleh has ruled this impoverished Arabian Peninsula state for nearly 33 years and has agreed to a Gulf Arab initiative that would lead to him resigning within a month of an agreement being signed with the opposition. The main opposition...
08:25 PM, Apr 24, 2011
Casablanca: Thousands took to the streets of Morocco on Sunday in peaceful demonstrations to demand sweeping reforms and an end to political detention, the third day of mass protests since they began in February. Desperate to avoid the turmoil that toppled leaders in Tunisia and Egypt, authorities have already announced some reforms to placate demands that King Mohammed cede more powers and limit the monarchy's extensive business influence. Some 10,000...
07:39 PM, Apr 24, 2011
