Yemen News Archives

About 60 Yemeni Jews have moved to the United States since July under a clandestine operation by State Department officials to escape anti-Jewish attacks in their homeland, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Fighting in the north of Yemen has intensified since the army began a push against the rebels in August.

SANAA: Yemen's Coast Guard has seized a boat it says illegally entered the country's territorial waters and arrested five Iranians on board, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday.

The government of Yemen has accused Iranian "religious institutions" of backing an armed rebellion against its rule after capturing an arms supply ship in the Red Sea.

FAMILIES saying goodbye to crew of HMAS Stuart were damp with tears and rain as the warship left Sydney on a six-month voyage to battle maritime piracy in the Middle East.

He could hear government fighter jets screaming across the sky, and he knew the Houthi rebels by their distinctive logos and headbands.

A passenger who tried to hijack a Yemeni domestic flight on Saturday was brought under control, official news agency SABA reported.

The Yemen Economic Corporation plays a pivotal role in national development and in achieving development stability throughout the country.

On Tuesday the Yemen Defense Ministry denied allegations made by the Houthi rebels that Saudi Arabian artillery pounded a border area under their control.

The third Expatriates' Conference concluded its three-day conference in Sana'a by issuing its final recommendations.

SANAA: Shiite rebels in Yemen accused forces from neighboring Saudi Arabia on Monday of firing into a northern border town in support of the Yemeni government's offensive against them.

About 18 people were killed in fighting between Shi'ite rebels and a pro-government tribe in Yemen from the same sect, tribal sources and residents said on Sunday.

Nine Somalis, believed to be pirates, were captured on Tuesday in the Thubab coastal area in western Yemen with guns and rocket-propelled grenades .

A Yemeni court has sentenced two Shiite rebels to death for taking part in gunbattles against security forces last year near the capital.

The Ministry of Health and Population announced that H1N1 virus cases in Yemen have increased to 921, with 13 cases reported dead.

A total of 59 al-Houthi rebels were killed and 31 others detained over the last 24 hours in the ongoing battles between them and the government troops in various areas in Saa adah and Harf Sufyan, military and security officials said Monday.

Nine suspected pirates from Somalia, armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades, were arrested in western Yemen, police said.

SANAA: Yemeni authorities said on Tuesday safe corridors had been set up to allow refugees access to four camps offering a safe haven from fighting in the north but UN aid agency UNHCR said one of them was not safe.

Family members of sailors killed in the bombing of the destroyer Cole marked the ninth anniversary of the deaths with a brief, quiet ceremony at the Norfolk Naval Station memorial Monday, a base spokeswoman said.

The government troops are launching a massive ground attack on al-Houthi rebels in the areas around Sa'adah city, military sources participating in the attack said Sunday.

The United Nations sent on Sunday its first shipment of humanitarian aid across the Saudi Arabian border to thousands of Yemenis displaced by war, ending a bureaucratic impasse, officials said.

The conflict has intensified since the army began 'Operation Scorched Earth' on August 11, and aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis in the north, where up to 150,000 people have fled their homes since Shia tribesmen launched an insurgency in 2004.

DOHA: For the last three years, many people in Yemen have been enjoying benefits of charity in the form of heart surgeries performed by Qatar-based expert.

SANAA, YEMENA a ' Since mid-August, a long-simmering conflict between the Yemeni government and Shiite rebels has flared up in the north of the country, threatening the stability of one of the Arab world's poorest states and raising fears that it may become a new haven for Al Qaeda.

Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Tuesday Arab states supported the unity of Yemen, which faces a Shi'ite rebellion in the north and secessionist unrest in the south.

SANAA: A Yemeni court on Saturday sentenced two Pakistani fishermen to death and jailed two others for 25 years after convicting them of drug trafficking.

Six of the Zaidi rebels and the four soldiers were killed in overnight clashes in Al-Kahoum, west of Harf Sufyan, the scene of heavy fighting on the road linking the capital with the Saada region, a rebel stronghold, a military commander told AFP.

Yemeni members of parliament read Qur'anic verses in Sanaa yesterday for the souls of soldiers killed during the operation against Shia rebels Arab governments moved yesterday to support Sanaa in its bid to crush rebels in northern Yemen, while clashes erupted in the southern city of Dhaleh over the detention of southerners viewed by the ...

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Tow Pakistani nationals were sentenced Saturday to death and two others sentenced to 25 years in prison for smuggling drugs to Yemen.

The Government Accounting Office said Saudi Arabia has made progress in the fight against terrorism, arresting and prosecuting suspects and taking steps to curtail fund-raising by extremist groups inside the country.

Yemen accused a leading figure among separatists in the south on Thursday of being behind an assassination attempt against a senior security official this week.