ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - Yemeni police on Wednesday opened fire at protesters in the southern city of Aden killing two civilians and wounding another two, on a "day of rage" called by separatists, medics said.
Police fired bullets and tear gas to disperse hundreds of Southern Movement supporters, witnesses said. Medics at a city hospital initially said a civilian was killed and three were woun [...]
SANAA (AFP) - A court in the Yemeni capital on Wednesday sentenced to death two young men suspected of being Al-Qaeda members for a series of lethal attacks.
The men, Mansour Saleh Salem Daleel, 18, and Mubarak Ali Hadi al-Shabwani, 23, who denied the charges, were arrested on December 11 in the Marib province of eastern Yemen.
The pair were accused of "participating in an armed gang whi [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni security forces killed a gunman after coming under fire from a car in the eastern province of Shabwa, a stronghold of Al-Qaeda, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.
Four unknown gunmen "opened fire at a security post" in the city of Ataq, wounding a policeman, the ministry said on its website.
Security forces "responded in self defence," killing one of the passenge [...]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - Yemen's separatist Southern Movement called for "a day of rage" on Wednesday in the tightly patrolled city of Aden to mark the 16th anniversary of the invasion of the south by northern forces.
The Supreme Council for the Peaceful Movement to Liberate the South issued a statement on Monday calling on all southerners to "make Wednesday a day of rage" to express "our peop [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Gunmen killed an elderly man in Yemen's tense north on Sunday, the interior ministry said, blaming Shiite rebels who denied the accusation.
The Shiite rebels "launched a barrage of bullets" at the 70-year-old in the town of Al-Matammah, about 60 kilometres (37.3 miles) from Sanaa, the ministry said on its website.
But the Huthi rebels' spokesman Mohammed Abdulsalam denied h [...]
SANAA (AFP) - A Yemen court said it will on Wednesday announce a verdict in the trial of two alleged Al-Qaeda members accused of being part of an armed gang that killed military and security officials.
Prosecutors, wrapping up the trial on Sunday, demanded death sentences for Mansour Saleh Salem Daleel, 18, and Mubarak Ali Hadi al-Shabwani, 23, who were arrested on December 11 in eastern [...]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - A Yemeni army officer was found shot to death in southern Yemen, where police arrested two Al-Qaeda suspects for the second such killing in as many days, local security officials said on Saturday.
"The body of Colonel Abdallah Al-Metri, shot by unknown people, was found by local inhabitants of Batis," in the Khanfar region of southern Abyan province, a local official t [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni Shiite rebels bombed the house of a pro-government tribal chief in the north of the country killing three people, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
The ministry, in a statement on its Internet website, described Friday's attack against the house of Sheikh Saghir Aziz in Harf Sufyan as an "act of sabotage."
Aziz was not in the house at the time but three of his [...]
SANAA (AFP) - A gunman has killed a Yemeni intelligence official in the country's south, a hotbed of unrest blamed on separatists and Al-Qaeda, the defence ministry said on Friday.
"A gunman on a motorbike fired on Thursday at commander Saleh Amdheib at the market in Zinjibar," the capital of Abyan province, "killing him instantly, before escaping," said the ministry in a statement on its 26sep [...]
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