SANAA: President Ali Abdullah was slightly wounded when shells struck his palace in Sanaa on Friday, a Western diplomat said, as Yemen slid toward civil war.
The attack targeting Saleh in a mosque located in the presidential palace killed an imam (...)
SANAA: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to sign an agreement on Sunday to step down; the third time such a deal has fallen through at the last minute, despite pressure from Gulf Arab and Western mediators.
Saleh has said Al-Qaeda (...)
SANAA: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh called on Friday for early elections in an apparent bid to stave off Gulf and Western pressure to leave office, as thousands rallied for and against his three-decade rule.
Saleh has twice backed out of a (...)
SANAA: Huge crowds in Sanaa and other Yemeni cities demanded on Friday that President Ali Abdullah Saleh leave after months of popular tumult that has brought the Arab world's poorest country close to economic meltdown.
But in a defiant speech to (...)
SANAA: Yemeni security forces killed two protesters and wounded dozens on Wednesday as mass rallies demanding the ouster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh paralysed two major cities on Wednesday, residents and medics said.
Snipers shot dead two (...)
SANAA: Yemeni activists urged street protesters on Monday not to raise banners of Osama bin Laden to avoid inviting a harsher crackdown on demonstrations seeking democratic change in the al Qaeda leader's ancestral homeland.
Bin Laden was killed (...)
SANAA: Vast crowds of Yemenis took to the streets on Friday to demand the immediate departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, instead of the phased handover of power envisaged by a Gulf-mediated agreement.
Tens of thousands flooded a five-km (...)
SANAA: Yemenis flooded the streets of Sanaa and Taiz on Friday in rival demonstrations for and against President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who gave a guarded welcome to a Gulf Arab plan for a three-month transition of power.
He told supporters in Sanaa (...)
SANAA: The Gulf Cooperation Council's secretary general met Yemen's president in Sanaa on Thursday to present the GCC's views on ending a political crisis threatening to plunge the country into further violence.
Gulf Arab and Western states — (...)
SANAA: Opponents of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh stepped up a campaign to force him out on Friday, but Saleh was defiant as he addressed thousands of supporters and called on the opposition to join talks.
"We call on the opposition to (...)
SANAA: Gulf Arab foreign ministers meet in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to see whether an offer to mediate in Yemen's political crisis has a chance of success after a war of words between Qatar and President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Saleh initially accepted (...)
SANAA: Two protesters were shot dead and 25 wounded by gunfire during protests in the southern Yemen city of Taiz on Friday, hospital sources said. Some 200 were hurt by tear gas inhalation in fresh clashes with police on Friday as President Ali (...)
SANAA: Dozens of Yemeni protesters were wounded on Sunday when police used live rounds, tear gas and batons to try to break up demonstrations against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Taiz, a medical source said.
About 10 people had been hit by (...)
SANAA: Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told a huge rally of supporters on Friday that he would sacrifice everything for his country, suggesting he has no plans to step down yet.
Weeks of protests across Yemen have brought Saleh's (...)