SANAA (AFP) - Deadly clashes erupted in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, shattering a truce between loyalist troops and dissident tribesmen, as security forces shot dead seven protesters in the second-largest city of Taez.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton voiced shock at the use of live rounds against protesters in Taez in a crackdown that the UN human rights offic [...]
ADEN (AFP) - Yemeni security forces were searching on Monday for three French aid workers missing in the southeastern province of Hadramawt, a provincial official told AFP without confirming they had been kidnapped.
"All the security services have been mobilised and are searching the region, in the valleys and the desert," said Omair Mubarak Omair, number three in the provincial adm [...]
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 [...]
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