ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - (AFP) - Seven Yemeni soldiers were killed and six others wounded on Saturday in clashes with suspected Al-Qaeda forces in the southern province of Abyan, a military officer said.
The fighting took place near Dofes, a village south of the provincial capital of Zinjibar that has been occupied by extremist elements since the end of May, the source said.
"Al-Qaeda fighters hidd [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis took part in anti-regime protests across the country on Friday, as thousands of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh's supporters rallied in the capital.
In Sanaa, anti-Saleh protesters joined Muslim weekly prayers at Sitin Street and called for an end to the rule of Saleh who has been recovering in Saudi Arabia since a bomb attack in ear [...]

ADEN (AFP) - (AFP) - Seven soldiers were killed on Tuesday and 30 others wounded in an attack launched by suspected Al-Qaeda militants on a base in the restive southern province of Abyan, a senior officer told AFP.
"Six soldiers and an officer were killed and 30 others wounded when Al-Qaeda militants attacked the camp of the 201 Brigade in Dofes," south of Abyan, capital of Zinjibar, the office [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Yemen's Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Mujawar returned to Sanaa on Tuesday from hospital in Riyadh, more than two months after he was hurt in a bomb attack on the president's compound, state television said.
Mujawar is the first top Yemeni official to return from medical treatment in Saudi Arabia after being wounded in the June 3 attack, which killed 11 people and wounded se [...]

ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - (AFP) - Eleven Yemeni tribesmen were killed overnight in two suicide attacks in the southern province of Abyan, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda, tribal sources and medics told AFP on Sunday.
Tribal sources accused Al-Qaeda members of carrying out the attacks in two villages of Abyan province, where Yemeni tribesmen and the army have been battling militants from the "Partisans of Sh [...]

ADEN (AFP) - (AFP) - Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized control of the town of Shaqra in lawless Abyan province, a stronghold of the jihadist network in southern Yemen, a local official said on Thursday.
"Al-Qaeda fighters have attacked positions of armed tribesmen" tasked with defending the town on Wednesday, and have "managed to drive them away without any resistance," the official told AF [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Fierce clashes overnight between tribesmen and troops loyal to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh left 23 tribesmen dead, a tribal source said on Tuesday.
"Twenty-three of our fighters were killed in fierce overnight clashes with the Republican Guard," said the source from the Bakil tribe, adding that the worst fighting was concentrated in the area of Sheheb Arhab.
Th [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Yemen's wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed Tuesday to return home "soon" and lashed out at his opponents, in answer to speculation he is poised to step down following 10 weeks of recovery abroad.
"See you soon in the capital Sanaa," he said, in an address from Riyadh to a meeting of his supporters in Sanaa that was broadcast on state television.
Saleh belittled th [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - An explosion near a government administration complex held by Zaidi Shiite rebels in northern Yemen has killed two people, the rebels said on Monday.
"A bomb-laden car exploded" near a medical centre in the city of Al-Matamma in Al-Jawf province, northeast of capital Sanaa, killing two and wounding another, the rebels said in a statement of the late Sunday attack.
The reb [...]