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Armed tribesmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer working in Yemen and demanded the government release one of their imprisoned tribe members, the Japanese Embassy and a Yemeni security official said Monday.
Saudi Arabia imposed a naval blockade on the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen to stem the flow of weapons and fighters to Shiite rebels along its border, a Saudi government adviser and media reports said Tuesday.
Saudi Arabian forces seized a strategic mountain straddling the border with Yemen and cleared it of Shiite rebels after five days of fighting that have left three Saudi soldiers dead, a Saudi defense official said Sunday.
Saudi Arabia said Friday it carried out airstrikes against "infiltrators" from Yemen that were limited to areas inside Saudi territory, and vowed to press on with the military action until the border with its restive neighbor was secure.
Saudi Arabia is trying to set up a buffer zone inside Yemen after its week-long offensive against the Yemeni Shiite insurgents along the border, a rebel spokesman said Wednesday.
Yemeni coast guards have seized a boat they say illegally entered the country's territorial waters and arrested five Iranians on board, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
Thousands of activists have taken to the streets across Yemen's south calling for independence, even as much of the central government's army is tied up fighting a Shiite rebellion in the far north.
Resting between frenetic bursts of fighting with tenacious Shiite rebels in the north, many Yemeni soldiers pass the day chewing qat leaves — the mild stimulant plant that is the impoverished Arab nation's traditional drug of choice.
Tens of thousands of Yemenis displaced by warfare between the government and Shiite rebels are stranded around the war zone with aid agencies unable to reach them because of the intensified fighting, U.N. officials and rights activists said.
Yemen's Shiite rebels Tuesday called for an independent arbitration committee to help mediate a lasting cease-fire in their ongoing war with the government as aid agencies warned that the humanitarian crisis could worsen if immediate action is not taken.
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Nearly 87 civilians were killed in a strike by government warplanes that hit a camp of people fleeing fighting in northern Yemen, a tribal leader said Thursday. It was a sign of increasing bloodiness in a remote war against Shiite rebels in this turmoil-ridden Arab nation.
The head of the U.N. children's agency said Monday that the tragic death of a 12-year-old Yemeni after three days in labor underscores the urgent need to better protect the rights of girls and prevent child marriages.
Yemeni warplanes on Wednesday hit a makeshift camp for civilians fleeing fighting between the government and Shiite rebels, killing dozens of people, witnesses said.
Four Yemenis carrying explosives and guns were arrested near the U.S. embassy in San'a, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
American authorities are pressuring Yemen to counter a rising internal al-Qaida threat more aggressively and improve intelligence-sharing amid growing worries that the country could become the next significant terrorist staging ground.
The United Nations and the Red Cross warned Tuesday about an escalating conflict in northern Yemen between government forces and Shiite rebels that has already driven 120,000 people from their homes and is spreading to other provinces.
A delegation of U.S. senators led by John McCain and the president of Yemen discussed on Monday ways to help the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country battle the threat from al-Qaida.
Yemen widened a military offensive against Shiite rebels in the country's north on Saturday, blasting the fighters' positions with artillery and airstrikes, a local government official said.
The son of a Yemeni tribal leader who convicted of supporting terrorism in the U.S. and then released, says his father has been rushed to the hospital.
Yemeni warplanes bombed a northern province bordering Saudi Arabia for a second straight day Thursday, Shiite rebels and local officials said, as the ongoing offensive brought the area closer to an all-out war.
The official Yemeni news agency says the top U.S. commander in the Middle East is pledging American support to fight terrorism in the troubled Arabian peninsula country.
Yemeni security forces on Thursday opened fire on thousands of protesters in the south chanting anti-government slogans, killing 12 and wounding scores of others, medics and eyewitnesses said.
Security was upgraded in Yemen's capital this week after intelligence reports warned of attacks planned against the U.S. Embassy, a senior security official said Tuesday.
A Paris hospital says a 12-year-old girl who was the only known survivor of the Yemenia Airways flight that crashed in the Indian Ocean has undergone facial surgery.
Anwar al-Awlaki --- Born in U.S., a Radical Cleric Inspires Terror Mr. Awlaki, 38, the son of a former agriculture minister and university president in Yemen, has never been accused of planting explosives himself.
Many Terrorism Suspects Linked to the Radical Cleric Awlaki - NYTimes.comIn nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool for extremist indoctrinatio …
Saudi Cast LeadSaudi Arabia has launched a large military incursion across the border into northern Yemen, using fighter jets and artillery bombardments to try to end a Shiite rebellion inside its troubled southern neighbor, Arab diplomats and the rebels said Thursday.
'US State Department resettles 60 Yemini Jews in rescue op'Amid a rise in anti-Semitic violence and terrorist activity in the country, the US State Department recently spirited nearly 60 Yemini Jews from Yemen and resettled them in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
Saudi concern rises over Al Qaeda activity in Yemen | csmonitor.comRiyadh, Saudi Arabia - The discovery by Saudi police of two Al Qaeda extremists wearing explosive vests in preparation for an "imminent" suicide attack underscores yet again the rising threat to Saudi Arabia from the deteriorating security situation in neighboring Yemen.
Egypt Hands Yemen Details on Iran Intelligence Activities - Yemen Post English Newspaper OnlineEgypt is said to have provided Yemen with information over Iran's intelligence plans targeting it and other Arab and African states in the region, Arab diplomatic sources were cited by the Akhbar Al-Youm Newspaper as saying.
U.S. eyes Iranian role in Yemeni conflictThe official Saba news agency cites a limited press engagement by Jeffrey Feltman, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, who said Washington was concerned about Iran's meddling in Yemeni affairs.
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Arab refugees the UN doesn't care about While Karen AbuZayd goes begging for more millions for the Palestinians, thousands of Yemen refugees aren't even getting relief supplies allowed through Saudi Arabia. But the UN isn't issuing resolutions demanding that the world take care of these refugees.
Socotra Island – ("No, I never heard of it before either")"Socotra Island: you have to see it to believe it We covered some other wordly places before but this island simply blows away any notion about what is considered "normal" for a landscape on Earth.
Yemeni girl, 12, dies in painful childbirthA 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, died during a painful childbirth that also killed her baby, a children's rights group said Monday.
Yemen child bride dies giving birth"A 12-year-old Yemeni girl, who was forced into marriage, has died during a difficult delivery in which her baby also died, a children's rights organisation said on Sunday, demanding action to stop Yemeni men taking child brides.
Child Bride In Yemen Dies While Giving Birth To BabyA 12-year-old child bride has died after struggling to give birth to a baby for three days, a human rights organisation in Yemen has said.
Al-Qaida faces recruitment crisis, anti-terrorism experts say"Eight years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden is still at large but willing fighters and ideological support are in short supply
This Week at War: The Middle East's Cold War Heats Up | Foreign PolicyHas a proxy war broken out in Yemen?
Obama Defies Federal Courts in Holding Yemeni DetaineesOn Monday a federal court judge ordered the Department of Defense to release a 47-year-old father of two with a heart condition who it has imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for the past seven years without justification.
Yemen's last Jews set to flee countryIsraeli sources confirmed on Thursday Yemeni media reports that the overwhelming majority of the final remnant of Yemen's ancient Jewish community, numbering some 250 people, are looking to leave the country due to persecution and violence.
Obama Plans to Use More Than Bombs and Bullets to Fight TerrorismThe U.S. government must fundamentally redefine the struggle against terrorism, replacing the "war on terror" with a campaign combining all facets of national power to defeat the enemy, John O. Brennan, President Obama's senior counterterrorism adviser, said Wednesday.
Afghanistan: Dangerous illusionsWhen the truth emerges, it has to be squashed. Lord Malloch-Brown, who is standing down as a Foreign Office minister this week, was forced yesterday to correct an interview he gave to the Daily Telegraph, in which he said British troops did not have enough helicopters.
Protesters shot dead in YemenUp to 12 people have reportedly been killed in Yemen after security forces opened fire on anti-government protesters in the country's south.
China alert over 'al-Qaeda threat'China has warned its citizens in Algeria to be on heightened alert following warnings that al-Qaeda could be plotting attacks on Chinese workers in North Africa in retaliation for the recent crackdown on unrest in China's western Xinjiang region.
Al-Qaeda Vows to Hit China over Uighur UnrestHONG KONG (AFP) – Al-Qaeda is threatening for the first time to attack Chinese interests overseas in retaliation for the deaths of Muslims in the restive region of Xinjiang, according to a risk analysis group.
Yemen publicly executes barberPictures of the execution Monday in the capital of San'a showed hundreds of people gathered around as Yehya Hussein was killed.
Yemen airline cancels route after Comoros crashYemenia Airways is canceling all its flights between Yemen and the Comoros Islands after this week's crash on the same route, the airline said Saturday. This latest comes on the heels of allegations that the Airbus 310 that crashed with only one known survivor had known issues.
Sleeper Cells and Shia Secessionists in Saudi Arabia: A Salafist PerspectiveSalafi-Jihadi internet forums continue to warn of Shi'a plots to control the Sunni Arab regions of the Middle East, most recently in a posting entitled "The Sleeper Cells of the Rejectionists - The Danger Within - Iran's Upcoming War of Bubbles" (muslm.net, June 1).
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