Two air strikes that targeted two vehicles in south Yemen on Saturday killed seven suspected members of Al-Qaeda and wounded two more, a local official said.The attacks by the Yemeni air force hit the vehicles on the outskirts of the town of Mahfad in Abyan province, the official said, speaking on ...

ADEN : Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a special forces commander in Yemen's eastern Hadramaut region on Sunday, a security official said.The attackers were believed to be al Qaeda members, the official said. They shot Captain Majed Muttair as he left his home in the city of al-Qatar.A bomb planted ...

ADEN : Fighters loyal to Al-Qaeda have seized control of villages near the Yemeni port city of Mukalla in an apparent bid to take over swathes of the southeastern province of Hadramawt, the interior ministry and residents said on Friday.The ministry condemned what it said was a "terrorist plot to ...

SANAA  - Yemen’s air force has been the target of “sabotage”, the country’s military aviation chief said in a televised interview, days after a fighter jet crashed in the capital Sanaa. “The air force is the target of systematic sabotage,” General Rashed ...

SANAA : An apparent US drone strike and ensuing ground clashes in Yemen killed three suspected Al-Qaeda militants and two soldiers on Sunday, a security official and witnesses said.The strike targeted a house in Wadi Abida, in the eastern province of Marib, and killed two suspected militants, the ...

SANAA  - Suspected Al-Qaeda militants shot dead a Yemeni intelligence officer overnight in Mukalla, capital of the southeastern Hadramawt province, a security official told AFP on Saturday."Al-Qaeda gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on the officer Ibrahim Bameshel as we was on his way back ...

SANAA : A suspected US drone strike in western Yemen has killed five Al-Qaeda militants, including a local chief, a security official and witnesses said on Thursday.The raid that took place late Wednesday in Dhamar province, killed Hamid Radman al-Manea, known as al-Radmi, and four of his guards, ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The foreign reserves of Yemen’s central bank shrank by $457 million in February to their lowest level since last August as oil exports from the impoverished Arab country plunged by a third, data showed on Sunday.The Arabian peninsula state, which relies on crude exports to ...

SANAA (AFP) - Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh affirmed his support on Wednesday for Yemen's unity in the face of calls by southerners for secession, which he said are backed by Iran."No to secession... Our people in the south are with unity," Saleh said in a rare public appearance in Sanaa's ...

ADEN (AFP) - President Abrabuh Mansur Hadi toured on Sunday several southern Yemeni cities in a surprise visit, state media said, as police clashed with southern separatists amid calls for civil disobedience. State news agency Saba said Hadi arrived in Aden late Saturday on an “inspection ...

SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni coast guard in coordination with the US navy stopped a ship last week in the Arabian sea loaded with rockets and explosives, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. The coast guard boarded the vessel, operated by Yemeni crew, in the territorial waters of the south Arabian ...

SANAA - A suicide car bomb at a checkpoint in central Yemen killed 11 soldiers on Monday, Saba state news agency said, as the army led an offensive on Al-Qaeda militants suspected of holding European hostages. "Eleven soldiers were killed and 17 others were wounded in the attack," Saba said. The ...

DUBAI - Yemen has room to gradually reduce interest rates to support economic recovery and needs to focus on consolidating its public finances, an International Monetary Fund official said.“In view of the continued decline in inflation, there is scope for a further gradual reduction in the ...

Yemen said on Thursday that the co-founder and second-in-command of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Saudi national Saeed al-Shehri, has died.The Supreme National Security Committee said Shehri had succumbed to wounds received in a counter-terrorism operation in the northern Saada province ...

DUBAI (AFP) - Yemen needs $716 million in aid this year, or 22 percent more than 2012's requirements, UN agencies said on Tuesday, after improved security enabled a reassessment of the humanitarian situation."We are hoping that we will be able to raise the whole amount so that we can ...

SANAA  - Yemen’s parliament approved the transitional government’s 2.77 trillion rials (8.1 billion pounds) 2013 spending plan on Saturday, four weeks after it was passed by the cabinet, after the former president’s party withdrew objections to some spending.Yemen, the ...

SANAA  - A Yemeni tribunal specialising in terrorism began Saturday the trial of 21 suspected members of Al-Qaeda, including three Jordanians and an Egyptian, accused of attacks against security forces. The defendants, who appeared in four separate groups, one comprised of the Jordanians and ...

SANAA (AFP) - A Yemeni court specialising in terrorism cases sentenced five Yemenis to between four and 10 years in prison Sunday on charges of membership in Al-Qaeda and for plotting to carry out terrorist attacks. Key defendant Mohammed Muawada was jailed for 10 years while three accomplices were ...

SANAA  - Yemen’s army Tuesday launched an offensive against tribesmen suspected of repeatedly sabotaging an oil pipeline in east Yemen, sparking clashes which left 17 people dead, tribal sources said. The dead included 10 tribesmen and seven soldiers, said the sources, who added that the ...

DUBAI - Yemen’s cabinet on Sunday approved a draft budget for 2013 that projects a deficit of 682 billion rials ($3.17 billion) and expenditure of 2.77 trillion rials, state news agency SABA reported.The impoverished Arabian Peninsula state is still grappling with the aftermath of last ...

SANAA (AFP) - President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has dramatically restructured Yemen’s military to curb the influence of those linked to toppled strongman Abdullah Ali Saleh with the strong backing of Yemen’s Gulf neighbours.In a series of decisions announced late on Wednesday, Hadi ...

ADEN - Yemeni guards foiled an attempted prison break by 25 Al-Qaeda convicts on Friday, some of them some considered as high risk, a security official said. “The guards from Aden central prison foiled an escape attempt with the discovery of an eight metre (yard) long tunnel dug by the 25 ...

ADEN (AFP) - A top Yemeni army commander, in charge of a southern region where the strategic Al-Anad air base is located, escaped an assassination attempt in Lahj province. "Gunmen travelling in a vehicle fired several rounds towards General Mahmud al-Sobaihi's car near intel headquarters in Huta," ...

SANAA - Yemeni political leaders have pledged to stop recruiting children in government forces of the country, which frequently sees violence between troops and armed groups, a UN official said. “I am heartened by the pledge from President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi and others in government to end ...

According to media at least 30 Yemeni soldiers lost their lives in a revenge attack on an army base in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan. Yemeni forces started an offensive against militants in Abyan two years ago, under the cover of US drones. Some twenty five thousand soldiers participated in ...

SANAA (AFP) - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a military adviser to Yemen's defence ministry, an Iraqi national, in Sanaa on Tuesday, a security official said. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the victim, Khaled Hatem al-Hashemi was killed when "two gunmen on a motorbike" fired ...

ADEN  - Yemeni security forces on Monday detained a man believed to be an American who appeared on a list of wanted Al-Qaeda suspects, a security official told AFP. The suspect was detained in Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province, a fighter stronghold in the south of Yemen, the official said. ...

ADEN (AFP) - The Yemeni army foiled on Saturday a car bomb attack on the Anad air base used by US soldiers in the southern province of Lahj to train local forces in combating terrorism, officials said.“We foiled an attack by a car packed with explosives that managed to breach several security ...

DUBAI - Amnesty International warned on Tuesday that Yemen could face a new human rights crisis, calling on the government to end “persistent” abuses and address past violations. “Yemen could face another human rights crisis unless the authorities act now to end persistent abuses ...

ADEN - Yemeni troops took control on Saturday of the southeastern town of Azzan, a known Qaeda bastion, after the group’s fighters left it a week ago, an official said.Thirty-five people, meanwhile, were killed in the southern Abyan province over the past 10 days in explosions from landmines ...