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, (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when opposition tribesmen determined to topple him hammered his palace with rockets Friday in a major escalation of nearly two weeks of fighting with government forces. At least (...)
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni forces opened fire on a protest camp and killed more than 20 demonstrators in the southern city of Taiz while government warplanes launched airstrikes on another southern town seized by radical Islamists.
The new (...)
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh has 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 (...)
SANAA, Yemen (AP): Armed with guns, knives and swords, supporters of Yemen's leader trapped U.S., European and Arab ambassadors at a diplomatic mission in new turmoil that swept across the capital as the president refused to sign an agreement (...)
IBB, Yemen (AP): Osama bin Laden once gave his wives the option of leaving Afghanistan, but his young Yemeni bride was determined to stay and be "martyred" alongside him.
The pledge early in her marriage to the terror leader, recounted by her (...)