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Articles of the author Ahmad Al Shumairi Okaz SANA'A
Talks on for release of Saudi diplomat
Negotiations are continuing here to secure the release of Abdullah Al-Khalidi, the Saudi diplomat, who was abducted recently in Aden. It has also been confirmed that Al-Khalidi is in good health, according to Sheikh Sultan Al-Bakiri, Chairman of (...)

01 - 04 - 2012
Special plane to carry abducted Saudi doctor to Riyadh
Shehri, the Saudi doctor who was freed from his captors in Yemen Monday, will be flown from Sana'a to Riyadh in a special plane, Prince Muhammad Bin Naif, Assistant Minister for Security Affairs at the Ministry of Interior has directed. Dr. (...)

01 - 12 - 2010
Tribal mediation frees kidnapped Saudi doctor, three Yemeni troops
Shehri, the Saudi doctor captured by a Yemeni gang in Sa'ada, Yemen, was released Monday, said Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Ali Bin Muhamamd Al-Hamdan. Sheikh of Wayla tribes, Muhammad Al-Wayli, said the kidnappers responded to mediation efforts by (...)

30 - 11 - 2010
Yemeni tribe holds Saudi doctor captive
Shehri, director of the Saudi Al-Salam Hospital in the Yemeni Sa'da Governorate, is being held captive by members of the Yemeni Aal Abbadah tribe from Aal Abu Jibarah in Sa'da, Ali Bin Muhammad Al-Hamdan, the Kingdom's ambassador to Sana'a, told (...)

29 - 11 - 2010
Wanted Saudi on the run after Yemen raid
A security source has denied reports that wanted Saudi national Abdullah Al-Juwayyer was among the 10 people arrested following a raid on a house in the Hadhramawt city of Mukalla last Monday. The source said that Abdullah Farraj Muhammad Mahmoud (...)

12 - 07 - 2010
No delay in returning Saudi fugitives, assures Yemeni security official
A senior Yemeni government official says there is “high level coordination” between his country and the security authorities of Saudi Arabia to hunt down Saudi terrorists and criminals and return them to the Kingdom without any delay. In a (...)

24 - 05 - 2010
Chinese engineers released in Yemen
After several days of mediation, kidnappers have released two Chinese engineers working in Yemen, a provincial governor said Tuesday. Ali Hassan al-Ahmadi, the governor of Shabwa province where the kidnapping took place, told AP by telephone that (...)

19 - 05 - 2010
‘Reports of Saudis kidnapped in Yemen lack verification'
A Saudi diplomatic source at the Kingdom's embassy in Yemen said that he has no information about reports that Saudi citizens were kidnapped and then released by Houthi rebels near Amran Province 30 km north of the Yemeni capital. The source (...)

25 - 04 - 2010
Al-Qaeda men flee to Somalia
Security efforts to close in on Al-Qaeda in Yemen have led to its members taking “temporary refuge” in Somalia, according to informed sources. The sources said that “between 15 and 20 Al-Qaeda members”, prominent leaders among them, left Yemen for (...)

05 - 04 - 2010
Yemen PM: Investment must for stability
The Saudi-Yemeni Coordination Council meets in Riyadh this Saturday, chaired by Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, with Yemen representation led by its Prime Minister Ali (...)

25 - 02 - 2010
Saudi soldier returns home
Prince Khaled Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, the Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General for Military Affairs, was at the frontlines when Yahya Abdullah Amir Al-Khuza'i, a Saudi soldier was returned Monday to his homeland by the (...)

16 - 02 - 2010
Repatriation of Saudi war prisoners soon, says envoy
Saudi soldiers taken captive by Houthi rebels will be repatriated soon, a senior Yemeni official has said. Speaking to Okaz by phone, the official said the Yemen government is exerting all efforts on the issue. He said the committees formed after (...)

14 - 02 - 2010
10 Yemeni soldiers killed
Ten Yemeni soldiers have been killed, most of them by snipers, and 18 wounded in a fresh outbreak of fighting with rebels in north Yemen, a military official said Monday. The latest clashes come days after the government announced a timetable for a (...)

09 - 02 - 2010
Yemeni sheikh condemns Houthis' ‘hidden agenda'
The senior sheikh of the Yemen Yafi' tribe Fadhl Bin Muhammad Aidrous Al-Afifi has expressed his full support for measures taken by King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, to repel threats to Saudi territory from Yemeni infiltrators and (...)

07 - 02 - 2010
Yemen tribes denounce threats to KSA security
The heads of Yemen's two most important tribes have spoken to denounce any interference with the security of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or the targeting of its interests on the part of Al-Qaeda, and said they stand fully behind the Yemeni (...)

06 - 01 - 2010
Top Qaeda militants escape Yemen attack
born radical cleric is alive and well following reports he may have been killed in a Yemeni airstrike against suspected Al-Qaeda hideouts, friends and relatives said Friday. The government said it targeted a meeting of high-level Al-Qaeda (...)

27 - 12 - 2009
Qaeda children with ‘tickets to Heaven'
Qaeda members arrested following last Thursday's Yemeni military strikes in the country's southern provinces are on the Saudi Ministry of Interior list of 85 wanted, the Governor of Sana'a has said. Speaking by telephone on Wednesday, Governor (...)

24 - 12 - 2009
Saudi Al-Qaeda militants killed in Yemen
At least two Saudis - from the Kingdom's list of 85 terror suspects - were killed in military operations by Yemeni security forces in Abyan on Thursday, according to the Governor of Yemen's Abyan Governorate, Ahmad Al-Miseri. The land and air (...)

20 - 12 - 2009
Foreign power behind rebels: Yemen
The Yemeni Minister of Information, Hassan Al-Lawzi, said in an exclusive interview with Okaz on the eve of his visit to the Kingdom that a foreign power was behind infiltrators who have been fighting Saudi and Yemeni forces. “We know who is (...)

17 - 11 - 2009
Alwan raised funds from beyond Yemen
An official from Yemen's national security authority revealed that Hasan Hussein Bin Alwan, described as the “largest financer of Al-Qaeda” and who was arrested in the Yemeni region of Marib last Friday, had been under surveillance for six (...)

17 - 06 - 2009
Yemeni tribals free 2 Saudis
Two Saudi nationals were freed peacefully on Tuesday after being held for two days by 20 armed tribesmen in Yemen, Saudi Ambassador to Yemen Ali Al-Hamdan told Okaz newspaper. The released Saudis, Saleh and Hussein Aal Mansour, told Okaz that they (...)

17 - 06 - 2009
Al-Oufi gives up, sent back to KSA
Guantanamo returnee Muhammad Al-Oufi, who had fled to Yemen after his release from a rehabilitation program of the Saudi Ministry of Interior, has surrendered and been returned to the Kingdom, security sources said. Al-Oufi (ex-Gitmo prisoner (...)

18 - 02 - 2009
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