Yemeni activists demand that American President Barack Obama stop drone attacks on their country. In a letter addressed this week to Obama, the activists told the American president not to believe their Yemeni President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi who (...)
About 20,000 Yemeni expatriates were deported from the neighbouring oil-rich Saudi Arabia over the last few weeks. With the deportation continuing, the Saudi authorities say the reason behind this is their violation of the law, not anything else. (...)
At least four people were killed in three assassination attempts in two days by conflicting tribal and political groups involved in Yemen's dialogue. The targets of the assassinations were tribal leaders from the south and northern province of (...)
Yemen's unfinished political settlement might fail completely, returning the country to violence and civil war. The new President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi appeared this week to be tired and helpless to stop the continuous political assassinations and (...)
The assassination of Saudi diplomat cast shadows on sectarian and political conflicts in Yemen. Al Qaeda denied that it was behind the assassination of the Saudi diplomat in the Yemeni capital Sanaa last week. Khaled Al-Anzi, the Saudi military (...)
Armed men killed four members of the political party of Yemen's ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in an ambush outside Sanaa on Friday night, the party said.
General People's Congress officials were travelling on the road to Maareb province when (...)
DUBAI - A suicide car bomber killed six members of a Shi'ite Muslim rebel group and three civilians in northern Yemen on Friday, a local official said.
Several others were wounded in the attack, which targeted the Shi'ite rebels, otherwise known as (...)
SANAA/ADEN - Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave Yemen temporarily after Gulf states leaned on him to get out of the way of his successor to ease tension complicating efforts to stabilise the country, a diplomatic source said on (...)
ADEN - An al Qaeda-linked group on Sunday freed 73 Yemeni soldiers it captured during a major assault in the south of the country last month, residents said, after mediation by religious scholars and tribal elders.
Residents of the southern town of (...)
SANA'A: In yet another shift in its position, al-Houthis, a group of Shia rebels, which seeks a break from the republic and a return to the ancestral rule of the imams, announced on Monday that it wished after all to take part in Yemen up and coming (...)
SANA'A: As the Youth Movement exploded on Yemen's political scene last year, giving birth to yet another popular uprising in the region, old religious feuds were re-ignited, creating severe sectarian tension in Yemen's northern provinces.
With (...)
SANA'A: Reports coming from Yemen's northern territories are further confirming political and security analysts' views that Iran is becoming an ever-growing presence in Yemen through its support of the Shia rebel group al-Houthis.
The group, (...)
SANA'A: One of Yemen's Vice-President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi's advisors, the only candidate to Yemen's next presidential elections, told local media that despite the recent bout of violence, all warring factions had promised to allow the (...)
SANA'A: Yemen security sources at the port of Hodaida, west of the capital, Sana'a, revealed to Bikyamasr.com that following reports from the Yemeni Intelligence Services, the country's seaport authorities had intercepted an Iranian ship loaded with (...)
SANA'A: Yemen officials confirmed on Friday that three Saudi Arabia nationals had been kidnapped by al-Houthis fighters while crossing the Yemeni northern province of al-Jawf, which sits on the Yemeni-Saudi border.
The province, which has been (...)
SANA'A: Tribal sources in the northern Yemen province of Saada revealed to Bikyamasr.com that Salafists are gathering “Jihadists” as their fight against al-Houthis intensifies.
For more than a decade, Sunni radicals, or Salafists, have been (...)
Terrorists may delay early elections, warns Nasser Arrabyee
On 21 February, a new president for Yemen will be elected in an early election agreed upon by all conflicting parties to end the one-year long political crisis. About 100,000 soldiers are (...)
Saudi Arabia has promised to pay for all urgent needs of the recently established government of Yemen, reports Nasser Arrabyee
The Saudi foreign minister called Yemen's Vice President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and Prime Minister Mohamed Basundwa and (...)
SANA'A: The Civil Coalition of Youth Revolution (CCYR) announced rejection of the Gulf's agreement which was signed by President Saleh's regime and the opposition Wednesday in Riyadh.
The following is the official statement issued by the group. (...)
The UN envoy to Yemen faces daunting challenges to end the crisis, says Nasser Arrabyee
It's been one week now since the UN envoy arrived to Yemen to end the 10-month long political crisis. In the first week of his current sixth round, Jamal Bin (...)
SANA'A: Yemen's defense minister reported that al-Houthis fighters, a Shia led militia who renounced the government back in 2004 and claim to want to restore the ancestral rule of the Imams over its territories, clashed with al-Islah militants in (...)
SANAA: Even if negotiators manage to prise President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power, Yemen's descent into anarchy and deprivation looks irreversible, posing vast risks for its people and their neighbours, not least oil giant Saudi (...)
Al-Qaeda and tribesmen threaten to retaliate for the US drone attacks in Yemen as US ally Saleh clings on, reports Nasser Arrabyee in Sanaa
Yemen's nine-month long political crisis remains unsolved despite, or rather because of US activities here. (...)
Yemen's tragedy drags on with Saleh's and the Americans' tiresome tricks, reports Nasser Arrabyee in Sanaa
Two things have significantly affected the nine-month long political crisis in Yemen this week.
The CIA's most wanted American terrorist Anwar (...)
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 (...)