SANA'A: In a recent statement to the press, Alistair Burt, the UK Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, expressed his views on Yemen saying that it was now time for foreign nations to truly grasp the danger (...)
SANA'A: Yemen's Human Rights Minister Hooria Mashour announced on Wednesday at a press Conference that she estimated that former President Ali Abdullah Saleh had committed more crimes in his three decades in power against the Yemeni people than the (...)
SANA'A: Yemen's Minister of Trade and Industry asserted that the technical barriers are of the effects that hinder the country's attitudes towards economic integration and to enhance procession of Arab Customs Union, delaying its joining World Trade (...)
SANA'A: Military sources based in the southern province of Abyan told Bikyamasr.com that the armed forces backed by local tribesmen and United States warplanes were making “real progress” against al-Qaeda militants.
After four days of an intense (...)
SANA'A: The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned Yemen's government and more specifically the Press and Publication court for continuing its “charade” of justice against two al-Jazeera journalists who were arrested last year while (...)
SANA'A: Although the government is unwilling to admit that AIDS is a social and health issue that Yemen needs to deal with, many officials are still reluctant to speak of the deadly infectious disease as much stigma is attached to the (...)
SANA'A: Although much has been written on legendary Queen Sheba, Yemen's most prominent figure in history, little is actually known of this mysterious monarch, which the legend has it met with prophet Suleiman, a pivotal religious figure in all (...)
SANA'A: A young 23-year-old woman from Sana'a was buried last week by her family after her cancer spread to her brain and other organs. Fatma, whose life was cut short by cancer was diagnosed 8 months ago with a stage 2 breast cancer, which doctors (...)
SANA'A: According to official reports from Yemen's defense ministry, the country's armed forces are making decisive advances against al-Qaeda in the southern province of Abyan, having managed to regain strategic positions.
Mount Yasouf near (...)
SANA'A: As announced by the Washington Post, this Wednesday American President Barak Obama is to sign an executive order, which would give the Treasury Department the ability to freeze the assets of whoever, American or foreign, would impede Yemen's (...)
SANA'A: The Central Security Forces in Sana'a told Bikyamasr.com that it had alerted the interior ministry of a potential al-Qaeda bomb attack in Sana'a as intelligence reports pointed out to the presence of Islamic militants within the (...)
SANA'A: 2011 was a catastrophic year in terms of tourism in Yemen as the country was enthralled in a violent popular uprising. 2012 and the threat of terror attacks have turned out to be as lethal to the ailing industry sector.
Despite a rich (...)
SANA'A: Early last month reports came out that Yemen's finance ministry had release large sums of money for the construction of a mosque within the grounds of al-Iman University, which incidentally happens to belong to controversial Sheikh Abdel (...)
SANA'A: Amid reports this week that armed “elements” in Yemen's capital Sana'a continue to spread chaos and terror by targeting foreign officials, reports are now coming through of a bomb attack against Yemen Information Minister, Ali (...)
SANA'A: According to the local authorities, al-Qaeda militants based in the eastern province of Mareb in Yemen have once again targeted the country's oil and gas infrastructure by damaging a pipeline, prompting a halt in production on Monday.
An (...)
SANA'A: Addressing the press, Yemen's Oil Minister Hisham Sharaf said on Monday that the country had suffered big losses due to the persistent attacks on its oil and gas pipelines.
At a meeting with the French foreign minister's Middle East (...)
SANA'A: Police officers in Yemen's capital Sana'a told Bikyamasr.com that a group of 7 drunk Yemeni youth attacked a 13-year-old orphan girl.
After raping her, the young men beat up the orphan so badly that she succumbed to the blows of her (...)
SANA'A: Gunmen believed to be Southern Movement militants assaulted on Friday morning two army bases in the Yemeni city of Dhale, southern Yemen.
The firss attack took place in the central of Dhale city, when tens of gunmen controlled Dar al-Hed (...)
SANA'A: A gas exporting pipeline was attacked by a saboteur on Friday in Yemen's eastern province of Mareb.
Security sources in Mareb said that a saboteur blew up a gas pipeline in al-Dmashiqa district of al-Wadi city.
Friday's attack is the (...)
SANA'A: A huge explosion rocked on Thursday evening the Yemeni capital, Sana'a near the headquarters of American Embassy and the National Security.
Witnesses said that black smoke was seen coming from nearby the area of national security Shawb (...)
SANA'A: The World Bank's present portfolio in Yemen comprises 21 projects under implementation with net commitment of US$836 million. Of this amount $489 million remains to be disbursed.
Currently, the World Bank is also engaged in a discussion (...)
SANA'A: Ansar al-Sharia, a terror group linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula denied on Thursday the death of Qassem al-Raemi, senior al-Qaeda commander in an American strike, confirming at the same time the news of the death of Khaldon (...)
SANA'A: According to military and security officials at least three soldiers were killed on Wednesday and five others were wounded in the Yemen's southern province of Abyan.
The officials said that heavy artillery shelling by Ansar al-Sharia, a (...)
SANA'A: Yemen officials said they were angry over the fact that the Pentagon had chosen not to share its intelligence on reports that al-Qaeda militants in Yemen were working towards a new type of bomb which they planned to use against an American (...)
SANA'A: Yemeni military, political and tribal leaders from Abyan governorate met with President Abdurabo Mansour Hadi on Monday and urged him to reinforce troops in Abyan to wipe out Al-Qaeda from their areas.
This meeting came hours after (...)