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Yemen: Fighting in south kills 50 militants
SANAA: Yemeni artillery and military aircraft backing pro-government tribesmen have pounded Al-Qaeda fighters trying to battle their way into a strategic town in the country's south, while a suspected US airstrike killed at least 12 militants, (...)

12 - 04 - 2012
Al-Qaeda says it killed American teacher in Yemen
SANAA: Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch said Thursday that it killed an American teacher because he was trying to spread Christianity in the mainly Muslim Arab nation. Joel Shrum, a 29-year-old native of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, was gunned down on Sunday (...)

23 - 03 - 2012
Ousted leader undermining Al-Qaeda fight, say Yemenis
SANAA: It was a stunning attack by Al-Qaeda in a country that is one of the world's hottest fronts against the terror group. Insurgents rampaged through an army camp in southern Yemen before dawn, catching soldiers asleep and killing more than 180. (...)

15 - 03 - 2012
Clinton says Yemen leader has reneged on promises
SANAA: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that the US regrets that Yemen's president has not complied with agreements to leave the country and allow elections for a successor. Her Tuesday comments came as Yemen's foreign minister (...)

18 - 01 - 2012
Yemen: 4 soldiers killed in clashes with militants
SANAA: Four Yemeni soldiers and two Al-Qaeda-linked militants were killed in clashes in the country's south, military and medical officials said Sunday. The fighting took place overnight outside the city of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province (...)

18 - 12 - 2011
UN envoy: Yemen president should transfer power
SANAA: Yemen's embattled president must speed up reforms and begin a transfer of power according to a plan backed by the international community, a UN envoy says. Jamal Benomar visited Yemen for a week to promote a Gulf-backed proposal that calls (...)

15 - 11 - 2011
Yemeni forces fire on protesters, killing 4
SANAA: Yemeni security forces opened fire Sunday on anti-government protesters marching through the capital killing at least four people, a medical official said. Mohammed Al-Qubati, the director of a field hospital at Sanaa's main protest site (...)

16 - 10 - 2011
Yemen president says he wants to leave power
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — President Ali Abdullah Saleh has made vague comments that he is willing to leave power in his first major speech since returning Yemen, but he gave no concrete plan for the future of the country. Yemen's opposition cast doubt (...)

09 - 10 - 2011
Yemeni jet mistakenly bombs army post, kills 30
SANAA: A government warplane mistakenly bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers and wounding many more, military and medical officials said Sunday. The officials said the bombing, which took place on Saturday (...)

02 - 10 - 2011
Al-Awlaki: From voice for jihad to al-Qaida figure
SANAA, Yemen — The heavy black beard spoke of Islamic piety, the fashionable wire-rim glasses of Western style. Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born, a gifted Muslim preacher and savvy Internet operator, became a powerful al-Qaida tool for recruiting (...)

01 - 10 - 2011
Yemen: Second American militant killed in strike
SANAA, Yemen — Yemen's Defense Ministry says another American militant, Samir Khan, who produced an English-language al-Qaida Web magazine, died in the U.S. airstrike that killed American-Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. The ministry has made the (...)

30 - 09 - 2011
Yemeni defense minister escapes assassination bid
SANAA, Yemen — A suicide attacker driving an explosives-laden car blew himself up Tuesday next to the passing convoy of Yemen's defense minister, who escaped the attack unharmed, security officials and witnesses said. The assailant detonated his (...)

27 - 09 - 2011
Prospect of civil war draws closer in Yemen
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The grim prospect of civil war in Yemen has drawn closer as mutinous soldiers have become more deeply involved in a rapidly spreading battle against regime forces for control of the capital. A negotiated cease-fire Tuesday (...)

21 - 09 - 2011
Yemen protesters storm elite military base; 50 die
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — 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 (...)

20 - 09 - 2011
Officials say Yemen president will not return home
SANAA: Officials in Saudi Arabia and Yemen say that President Ali Abdullah Saleh will not return to Sanaa and will, instead, remain in Riyadh, where he has been since June recuperating from serious wounds after an attack on his compound in (...)

16 - 09 - 2011
Yemen: 30 al-Qaida suspects die in US airstrikes
SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni military and medical officials say 30 al-Qaida suspects have been killed in U.S. airstrikes and clashes with Yemeni soldiers in al-Qaida-held cities in the south. A military official said that the United States has been (...)

01 - 09 - 2011
US, Saudi pressure may keep Yemen leader abroad
SANAA, Yemen — The U.S. and Saudi Arabia pressured Yemen's president to stay in Saudi Arabia after he was released from a lengthy hospital stay to treat wounds suffered in an assassination attempt, Yemeni officials said Monday. The officials, (...)

09 - 08 - 2011
50 Yemeni troops missing after battling militants
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni military official says some 50 soldiers are missing after battling Islamic militants in the south of the country. The official said Saturday that the soldiers have been missing since Thursday, following fierce clashes (...)

02 - 07 - 2011
Officials: 40 al-Qaida militants escape Yemen jail
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Security officials say at least 40 al-Qaida militants have escaped from a jail in southern Yemen. The militants attacked their guards and seized their arms early on Wednesday just as bands of heavily armed militants attacked (...)

22 - 06 - 2011
Thousands in Yemen call for president's son to go
SANAA: Tens of thousands took to the streets of the capital on Monday, demanding that the president's sons leave Yemen as pressure rose for the wounded leader being treated outside the country to step down. Ahmed Saleh, 42, is a one-time heir (...)

20 - 06 - 2011
Officials: Militants seize parts of a Yemeni city
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Islamic militants emboldened by months of turmoil in Yemen launched a surprise dawn attack Wednesday on a southern city, seizing entire neighborhoods for nearly 12 hours before withdrawing to farmlands on the outskirts, security (...)

15 - 06 - 2011
Militants seize parts of a Yemeni city, say officials
SANAA: Islamic militants emboldened by months of turmoil in Yemen launched a surprise dawn attack Wednesday on a southern city, seizing entire neighborhoods after gunfights with government forces, security officials said. The militants, believed (...)

15 - 06 - 2011
Yemen president has throat problem, fractions consider transition deal
SANAA: A senior Yemeni official in the Saudi capital says President Ali Abdullah Saleh has developed a problem with his throat but that his overall condition is stable. Saleh is being treated in Riyadh along with several to government officials (...)

14 - 06 - 2011
6 killed as violence returns to streets of Sanaa
SANAA: Violence threatened Yemen's capital with a return to chaos Monday — at least three opposition and three government forces killed — after a day of jubilation had gripped Sanaa with the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who underwent (...)

06 - 06 - 2011
Wounded leader leaves Yemen, deepening chaos
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's embattled president flew to Saudi Arabia for urgent medical care after he was wounded by a rocket attack on his palace, raising the specter of a violent power grab in this impoverished country shaken by months of protests (...)

05 - 06 - 2011
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