SANAA (AFP) - Gunbattles raged Wednesday on the streets of Yemen's capital, killing 39 people, witnesses said as a truce between security forces and tribesmen collapsed, residents fled and embassies bolted their doors.
A medic at Jumhuriya hospital said 37 people, most of them combatants, were killed in overnight clashes in Sanaa, while an AFP photographer said the bodies of two oth [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Forces loyal to Yemen's embattled president killed 21 protesters as they crushed a sit-in demonstration in Taez, an organiser said on Monday, as suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed six soldiers in the south.
Security service agents backed by army and Republican Guards stormed the protest against President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the city's Freedom Square, shooting at demons [...]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - French aid group Triangle Generation Humanitaire said on Sunday it may evacuate many of its dozen expatriate staff from Yemen after three staffers were feared kidnapped in the troubled country.
"We are looking at repatriating a large number of our team on the ground," the NGO's co-director Christian Lombard told AFP of the group that has worked in the Arabian Pen [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Dissident Yemeni generals on Sunday accused the embattled president of surrendering Abyan province to "terrorists" after suspected Al-Qaeda militants took its capital, and called for others to defect.
A security official said that more than 200 suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen have wrested control of the south Yemen city of Zinjibar, Abyan's capital, in fighting that has lef [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Tribal mediators on Saturday worked to consolidate a truce between a powerful opposition tribal chief and forces loyal to Yemen's embattled president, a close aide to the chief said.
"The mediators are continuing their efforts, but they have run into difficulties," said Abdul Qawi al-Qaisi, who heads the office of tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar.
The chief heads th [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Yemeni opposition tribal chief Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar said on Friday that there is a truce between his fighters and security forces in Sanaa, but he is ready for war if the embattled president wants one.
Earlier in the day, 12 tribesmen and a Republican Guards general were killed and an unknown number of other Guards killed and wounded in fighting sparked by tribesmen t [...]
SANAA (AFP) - Security forces in the Yemeni capital battled heavily armed supporters of the country's most powerful tribal leader on Thursday as President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered the tribesman's arrest.
The leader, Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar, in turn accused Saleh of dragging Yemen into civil war, speaking after hours of clashes late on Wednesday and overnight in which at least 24 people were kil [...]
SANAA (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday repeated his call for Yemen's leader Ali Abdullah Saleh to quit as clansmen loyal to a powerful opposition tribal chief seized buildings and battled security forces in Sanaa.
"We call upon President Saleh to move immediately on his commitment to transfer power," Obama said at a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Da [...]
SANAA (AFP) - A missile slammed into the home of a dissident Yemeni tribal chief on Tuesday, as deadly clashes raged between his clansmen and supporters of veteran President Ali Abdullah Saleh who is desperately clinging to power.
"The home of Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar was hit by a missile and there were several dead or wounded," a tribal source said.
"Among the wounded was General Gha [...]
SANAA (AFP) - A gunbattle broke out between police and tribesmen loyal to an opposition chieftain in the Yemeni capital on Monday, witnesses said, following President Ali Abdullah Saleh's refusal to stand down.
Saleh has refused to ink an accord brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that would have seen him cede power within 30 days in exchange for immunity from prosecution [...]
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