Yemeni officials and residents say U.S. jets carried out dozens of airstrikes on al-Qaida targets overnight and in the past 48 hours in one of the lengthiest sustained campaigns inside the Arab country.
They said Friday that the strikes focused on a (...)
Yemeni security officials say a suicide car bomber has struck a security camp in a southern Yemeni city, killing eight soldiers.
The officials say the bomber, who was disguised as a driver carrying a load of fire wood for cooking, failed to get (...)
Clashes between government troops and Al-Qaeda fighters left 19 people dead in southern Yemen Wednesday, military officials said.
The fighting is part of an intensified government campaign against the group's strongholds in southern Yemen, where (...)
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi is facing a new challenge to his authority over the military, with the powerful son of his predecessor disobeying orders and elevating a relative to head a security unit to protect his father.
One of Hadi's main (...)
Gunmen loyal to ousted Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh blasted buildings at the country's main airport with anti-aircraft guns Saturday, forcing authorities to shut it down, an airport official said.
Armed tribesmen and troops in uniform (...)
Yemen's new president is considering the dismissal of the country's national unity government because of what he sees as the meddling of his predecessor in its work, a senior official said on Tuesday.
The official told The Associated Press that (...)
President Barack Obama has voiced his support for Yemen's vice president days before an election expected to make Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi the country's new leader.
Obama says in the letter that he looks forward to deeper relations between the two (...)
Strikes are spreading in Yemen's capital as hundreds of government employees rally, demanding reforms and the firing of top managers over alleged corruption linked to the country's outgoing president.
Corruption was one of the grievances that (...)
Hundreds of Yemeni women Wednesday set fire to traditional female veils to protest the government's brutal crackdown against the country's popular uprising, as overnight clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people, officials said.
In (...)
Yemen says it has arrested the suspected mastermind of the spectacular attack on the intelligence headquarters in the country's main southern city that freed detainees and left 13 people dead.
An official statement Sunday said the suspect belongs (...)
Under a hail of gunfire and grenades, heavily armed militants believed to be linked to Al-Qaeda stormed the intelligence services' jail in a southern Yemen port city Saturday, killing at least 13 people, security officials said.
An eyewitness (...)
A Yemeni official says the government would not hand over to the US an American-born cleric, who the US claims has ties with Al-Qaeda, because the constitution bans extradition of Yemeni citizens.
The Yemeni-American cleric, Anwar Al-Awlaki, is (...)
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 (...)
The British ambassador in Yemen narrowly escaped a suicide attack Monday morning, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his explosives belt near his armored car at a poor neighborhood of Sana'a, officials said.
A British Embassy (...)
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 (...)
Yemeni government forces used artillery and aircraft to attack Shiite rebels in an escalation of the five-year-old conflict, rebels and local officials said Wednesday.
The government offensive, which is believed to have started late Tuesday and (...)
Yemen says it has handed over an alleged Saudi Al-Qaeda operative to Saudi authorities.
The Yemeni Interior Ministry says Ahmed Owaidan Al-Harbi was repatriated to Saudi Arabia Thursday, 20 days after his arrest in eastern Yemen.
In a statement, (...)
Gunmen in a car fired on a police checkpoint near the US Embassy in Yemen's capital on Monday, an Interior Ministry official said, hours after the embassy received threats of a possible attack.
Police returned fire at two gunmen in the car, which (...)
International aid workers have found the bodies of 60 migrants on the shores of southern Yemen who died trying to smuggle themselves into the country from Africa, the aid group said Monday.
Workers found the bodies from Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, said (...)
Yemeni authorities have arrested 30 people suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda following an attack on the heavily fortified US embassy in Sana'a, a security source said on Thursday.
Two suicide car bombs set off a series of explosions outside the (...)