clad civil servant gazes at the floor, his right cheek bulging with a tennis ball-sized wad of bright green leaves. Every day after lunch, 38-year-old Ali returns to his office at the Passport and Immigration Authority in Sanaa to spend the rest of (...)
Yemeni police have freed 21 Ethiopian illegal migrants who were tortured by armed men to force their relatives in Saudi Arabia to send ransom money, the government said Thursday.
The group, which included 14 women, were held in a house in Hajja (...)
Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi became Yemen's new president Saturday, formally removing autocrat Ali Abdullah Saleh from power, as a car bombing in the south of the country underscored the violence that will be the new leader's greatest challenge.
The car (...)
Yemen has begun a publicity campaign to get citizens to vote in the upcoming presidential election, officials said on Monday, part of a deal to ease President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of office and pull the country back from the brink of civil (...)
Unidentified assailants opened fire on the Yemeni information minister's car in Sana'a Tuesday in a failed assassination attempt, an aide said.
Ali Al-Amrani's secretary, Abdel-Basset Al-Qaedi, said the vehicle was riddled with bullets fired as the (...)
A UN envoy returned to Yemen Thursday to renew efforts to persuade President Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit under a Gulf-brokered plan to halt months of unrest, which flared again in the city of Taiz where security forces fired on protesters.
A Reuters (...)
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has moved a step closer to handing power to his deputy by accepting a U.N. formula to ease a transition and end an uprising against his rule, the EU envoy to Yemen was quoted by the state news agency SABA as (...)
Yemeni protesters camped out in Sana'a's central square said Sunday that President Ali Abdullah Saleh's suggestion that he would step down in the coming days was another promise that they were sure would be broken.
Analysts mostly agree that the (...)
Yemen's opposition dismissed Monday a government plan for talks aimed at easing unrest after months of mass protests demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh's overthrow, saying it had not even heard of any such “roadmap” for peace.
Vice President (...)
Months of political unrest in Yemen, which crippled the Arab country's economy, have cost its industrial and trade sectors at least $17 billion, the Saudi state news agency reported Wednesday, quoting the deputy chairman of the Yemeni Chamber of (...)
The United Arab Emirates has pledged 3 million barrels of oil to Yemen, which faces a fuel crisis due to attacks on a pipeline during widespread political unrest, a Yemeni deputy minister said Saturday.
Deputy Information Minister Abdo Al-Janadi, (...)
government protester was killed and seven injured in clashes with supporters of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a Saturday.
Saleh blamed a “foreign agenda” and a “conspiracy against Yemen, its security and stability” for the string (...)
government protesters clashed with police blocking them from marching to Yemen's presidential palace in Sana'a Sunday, witnesses said.
The clashes occurred while President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the main opposition group were preparing for talks (...)
Lawmakers drafted a bill to start a securities exchange authority in Yemen, hoping to speed up the opening of a bourse and encourage investment despite its sinking economy and severe security risks.
“For us to move out of the challenges we face, we (...)
Qaeda plot to attack vital installations in a province that is home to much of the country's oil resources and a key pipeline that ferries crude to the coast, the defense ministry said Monday.
The ministry's online newspaper said security forces (...)
Ten people were killed in clashes between Houthi rebels and government-allied tribesmen in north Yemen, rebel and tribal sources said on Tuesday, in violence that could undermine the region's uneasy four-month truce.
Yemen's government agreed a (...)
Armed Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped two US tourists, a husband and wife, near the Yemeni capital Sana'a Monday and were demanding the release of a jailed relative, Yemeni security officials said.
The couple's Yemeni driver and a translator were also (...)
A gunfight between Yemeni rebels and pro-government fighters killed seven people in the deadliest clash since a February truce calmed a northern war, officials said Thursday.
The clash broke out after dozens of armed rebels descended on a village – (...)
Yemeni police arrested dozens of Al-Qaeda suspects in sweeps a day after a suicide bomber tried to kill Britain's ambassador to Yemen, security officials said on Tuesday.
At the 22-year-old bomber's home near Sana'a, his father told Reuters that he (...)
Yemeni rebels opened fire on a military plane flying above the flashpoint city of Saada, officials said Friday, in one of the most serious breaches yet of a truce to end a northern war.
The plane, which state media said was carrying military and (...)
A blast in a suspected dynamite storage depot in the basement of a residential building in Yemen killed up to 19 people as they slept Tuesday, and reduced their building to rubble, an official said.
“We think it was dynamite,” a local official in (...)
Security forces arrested 16 people late Friday in three provinces in southern Yemen where the government is facing a secessionist movement, accusing them of illegal separatist activities, official sources said.
The group were accused of taking part (...)
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced on television a ceasefire in fighting against rebels in the north of the country to take effect from midnight on Friday (2100 GMT Thursday).
The announcement came after reports that the Yemeni (...)
Yemen is close to reaching a deal with northern rebels, a government official said Wednesday, aiming to end a war that has raged on and off since 2004 and drawn in neighboring Saudi Arabia.
The government and rebels have been exchanging proposals (...)
The United States should increase aid to Yemen to prevent the poor Arab country becoming a failed state, research house Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said.
“It is essential that Washington take a holistic approach to Yemen,” Carnegie (...)