SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for "peaceful dialogue," saying that is the way to end the country's long-running political crisis, in an editorial published on Monday.
"We have never ceased to emphasise the necessity of a peaceful dialogue to find a solution to all these problems," Saleh wrote in an editorial that was published in Al-Thawra and oth [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Yemenis marched through the country's second city Taez on Sunday in what they called a "day of rage" against President Ali Abdallah Saleh on the anniversary of his rise to power in 1978.
Demonstrators assembled on Taez's main arterial road, chanting anti-Saleh slogans and waving black flags to mourn the embattled president's 33-year rule, t [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been treated for blast wounds in Saudi Arabia since early June, will return home "soon," Deputy Information Minister Abdo al-Janadi said on Saturday.
Opposition activists, meanwhile, called for the creation of an interim "presidential council" including a former premier to run the country.
"The president is in good [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Ten Yemenis were killed and at least 37 others wounded in the city of Taez, south of Sanaa, security and tribal sources and witnesses said on Friday.
Security official Colonel Ahmed Rezaz and two companions were killed in an ambush by armed opposition tribesmen, a security source in Taez said.
Witnesses said four tribesmen and three civilians were also wounde [...]

ADEN (AFP) - (AFP) - A Yemeni army officer and two of his troops were killed in an ambush by gunmen near the southern port city of Aden on Saturday, military sources said.
They said the unidentified assailants opened fire with automatic weapons on a jeep in the village of Thalaet, west of Daleh, killing Lotf al-Mazlum and two soldiers as well as wounding two civilians, witnesses sai [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - A badly burned Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared on television on Thursday for the first time since he was wounded in an explosion at his palace in Sanaa, urging dialogue but not saying whether he plans to return.
His face burned and his hands covered with bandages, Saleh, who has been hospitalised in Saudi Arabia since the June 3 attack, was barely [...]

SANAA (AFP) - (AFP) - Yemen needs urgent international aid to head off a humanitarian crisis, a UN mission visiting the impoverished country said on Wednesday, warning of "collective punishment" against civilians.
"We call on the international community to quickly provide humanitarian aid to Yemen during this difficult time," said a statement at the end of a nine-day visit.
"Yemen [...]

ADEN (AFP) - (AFP) - Four civilians and six gunmen were killed Tuesday in a series of air raids that targeted extremists who have taken control of most of Yemen's southern city of Zinjibar, officials and a medic said.
The defence ministry's 26sep.net news website meanwhile cited a military source as saying that 40 "terrorists from Al-Qaeda" had been killed and dozens others wounded [...]