SANAA, Yemen - Disparate factions in war-torn Yemen are routinely committing abuses against civilians, according to statements from several humanitarian organizations in recent days. The accusations precede an upsurge in clashes near the Saudi (...)
Sanaa - With an unclear political future ahead for embattled Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country continues to suffer from an increasingly ravaged economy. The dire conditions are fueling calls to bring the demonstration movement to a close in an (...)
Sanaa - With President Ali Abdullah Saleh's absence from Yemen lingering on, opposition leaders and anti-government protesters are, once again, accusing the regime of fomenting violence in provincial parts of the country for reasons of political (...)
Sanaa - Amid a lingering security vacuum in violence-stricken Yemen, clashes between Islamist militants and state security continue to rage in the country's south with Al-Qaeda leaders claiming an expansion of influence in Abyan Governorate.
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Sanaa--Yemeni government officials confirmed on Monday embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh remains in stable condition and will return from Saudi Arabia - where he continues to seek medical treatment for wounds sustained during a 4 June attack on (...)
Sanaa – Despite President Ali Abdullah Saleh's departure on Saturday to seek treatment in Saudi Arabia for wounds sustained during an attack on his presidential palace, insecurity and instability remain in embattled Yemen. And the Arab World's (...)
Sanaa – The collapse of a delicate ceasefire in Sanaa on Tuesday reinforced the threat of civil war in Yemen, as government forces shelled the capital's Hasaba neighborhood and street fighting erupted in the city, claiming at least seven lives.
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Sanaa -- Members of Al-Qaeda, the international terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden prior to his killing by US commandoes in Pakistan this month, are expanding their influence in southern Yemeni provinces Shabwa and Abyan, local leaders (...)
Sanaa -- The deal aimed at ending Yemen's enduring political standoff suffered another setback on Sunday as President Ali Abullah Saleh refused to sign, instead choosing to level last minute additional conditions. The accord, brokered by the Gulf (...)
Sanaa -- Violence marred anti-government protests in Yemen on Wednesday, as thousands took to the streets of Sanaa and the country's provincial capitals in rejection of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) initiative tentatively endorsed by the regime (...)
Sanaa -- With the opposition's tentative endorsement of the Gulf Cooperation Council-brokered deal aimed to oust Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh from office 30 days after signing, the country edges closer to ending its enduring political (...)
Sanaa -- Yemeni women activists are responding combatively to the media war waged by state outlets this week aimed at denouncing female participation in protests sweeping the nation.
Sparking the row, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday (...)
Sanaa--A coalition of tribal sheikhs has succeeded in preventing the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) from taking over its districts.
The coalition accused the government of encouraging Al-Qaeda to spread its operations in some (...)
Sanaa -- Despite President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Wednesday endorsement of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) mediation into the nearly three-month-long Yemeni political crisis, no affirmative stance has yet to take root within the high echelons of (...)
Sanaa -- Mareb Governorate's Murad and Abeeda tribes once claimed a three-decade-long legacy of revenge killings. But today the erstwhile rivals live together in one tent as one family in Sanaa's al-Tagheer Square along with five to seven thousand (...)
Sanaa -- The first armoured division of the Yemeni military spread out to protect the various entries of Sanaa University, the site of the 21 March sit-in. The demonstrators erupted with joy at the site of the military presence. Droves of those in (...)