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Islamist attack on Yemen army checkpoint kills 13
SANAA: At least eight Yemeni soldiers and five militants were killed when Islamist gunmen attacked an army checkpoint in the central Maarib province on Tuesday, a local official said. In the southern city of Lawdar, where 57 people were killed on (...)

10 - 04 - 2012
Yemen army reinforces militant-held town
SANAA: Yemen's military has sent extra forces to a town Islamists seized last week, after negotiations with the militant group's leader broke down, residents and witnesses said on Monday. Tanks and armored vehicles were making their way towards (...)

23 - 01 - 2012
Yemen unrest may force election delay, says minister
SANAA: Yemen's presidential election, set for February, may be delayed by security concerns, the foreign minister said, raising the prospect that a US and UN-backed plan to end months of unrest by easing the president from office may (...)

17 - 01 - 2012
Al Qaeda militants tighten grip on Yemen town
SANAA: Islamist militants raised their flag over the citadel at Radda and pledged allegiance to al Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahri after seizing the Yemeni town southeast of the capital Sanaa, residents said on Monday. The move is likely to raise (...)

16 - 01 - 2012
Qaeda insurgents seize Yemen town, Norwegian kidnapped
SANAA: Al Qaeda insurgents have seized a small town southeast of Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday in another setback to efforts to restore order after President Ali Abdullah Saleh formally handed over power following almost a year of mass protests (...)

15 - 01 - 2012
Rival Yemeni forces quit streets of Taiz, official says
SANAA: Yemeni forces loyal to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh and opposition gunmen are withdrawing from the streets of Taiz city, an official said on Friday. Dozens have been killed in Taiz, Yemen's commercial capital, since Saleh signed a (...)

09 - 12 - 2011
Two killed in Taiz, Yemen power transfer deal stalled
SANAA: Two people died in artillery fire in the southern Yemeni city of Taiz on Sunday, medical workers said, as fierce fighting between loyalists and opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh ground into its fourth day. The deaths bring to at (...)

04 - 12 - 2011
Saleh keeps Yemenis guessing with talk of departure
SANAA: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh suggested that he would step down within days, a promise he has made three times already this year, and analysts said it was yet another stalling tactic in a succession crisis that has spread turmoil (...)

09 - 10 - 2011
Yemen protesters entrenched after Saleh disappoints
SANAA: Protesters in Sanaa are preparing for a long, messy revolt after President Ali Abdullah Saleh offered no clear path to a handover on his return to Yemen from three months of convalescence after an attempt on his life. Saleh, who returned (...)

26 - 09 - 2011
Car bomb in Yemen's Aden kills 9 soldiers, injures 21
ADEN/SANAA: A suicide bomber drove a booby-trapped car into an army checkpoint outside Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Sunday, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding 21 others, officials and medical sources said. The attack, which the (...)

24 - 07 - 2011
Yemen VP presents new transition plan, Saleh stays
SANAA/ADEN: Yemen's acting leader has put forward a new plan to end the country's political stalemate, which would keep President Ali Abdullah Saleh in power longer than outlined in earlier initiatives, an opposition source said on (...)

07 - 07 - 2011
Yemen's Saleh has surgery in Saudi, crowds cheer exit
SANAA/RIYADH: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in an attack on his palace, underwent surgery in Saudi Arabia and Yemenis seeking his overthrow celebrated what they hoped was the end of his 33-year rule. A Yemeni ruling party official (...)

05 - 06 - 2011
Yemen's Saleh hurt in palace attack: diplomat
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 (...)

03 - 06 - 2011
Yemen's Saleh refuses to sign deal to step down
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 (...)

23 - 05 - 2011
Saleh calls for early election as Yemenis protest
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 (...)

20 - 05 - 2011
Yemen opposition says power transition deal agreed
SANAA: Yemen's president and opposition agreed on Wednesday to sign a Gulf-brokered deal for a transition of power with slight modifications after intervention from US and European diplomats, an opposition official said. The deal, which the (...)

18 - 05 - 2011
Yemen's Saleh defies crowds demanding his exit
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 (...)

13 - 05 - 2011
Yemen protests paralyze 2 cities, police kill two
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 (...)

11 - 05 - 2011
Security forces fire on Yemen protest, one dead
SANAA: Yemeni forces opened fire on protesters blockading a government building on Monday, killing a shopkeeper in a city that has seen some of the largest rallies seeking to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh, witnesses said. At least 10 (...)

09 - 05 - 2011
Yemeni opposition rejects Saleh stance on handover
SANAA: Yemen's opposition on Friday dismissed President Ali Abdullah Saleh's stance on a revised Gulf plan to ease him out of power, as security forces gathered in anticipation of mass demonstrations for and against him. The ruling party said on (...)

06 - 05 - 2011
Yemen protesters urged not raise bin Laden banners
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 (...)

02 - 05 - 2011
Yemeni protesters decry Saleh transition deal
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 (...)

29 - 04 - 2011
Security forces fire in Yemen, wounding marchers
SANAA: Yemeni security forces opened fire on Monday to block a thousands-strong protest and wounded at least 10 people, amid uncertainty over a Gulf plan for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down within weeks and end a political (...)

25 - 04 - 2011
Vast crowds rally in Yemen for and against Saleh
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 (...)

22 - 04 - 2011
Gulf region envoy in Yemen to discuss crisis
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 — (...)

21 - 04 - 2011
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