Breaking Yemen Politics News

The Yemeni- Qatari Insurance Company celebrated its first insurance branch in Yemen. At the celebration, a member of the company’s administrative council delivered a speech saying that the main reason the company was established was to gain experience in the...

Her tears do not stop dropping, and the pain reaches her heart, flowing through her veins. After what seemed to be a perfect love story, she married a man who now, after ten years of marriage, tries to take her...

Saudi Arabia's offensive against Yemeni rebels is driven by its fear of what it views as a far greater threat -- al-Qaida. Riyadh believes that if Yemen collapses into chaos, the jihadists regrouping there will step up their war against...

Nidal Malik Hasan and Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki intersected long before the Fort Hood shooting. Al-Awlaki serves as imam of the Virginia mosque where Hasan's family worships. Some of the 9/11 hijackers worship there, too, and previously worshipped under al-Awlaki...

Yemeni protesters demonstrated in front of the Iranian Embassy in Sanaa chanting anti-Iranian slogans and calling for the expulsion of the Iranian envoy. Protesters chanted "no to the plot of Persian expansion" and other anti-Iranian slogans in front of the...

The mediation committee has received the Japanese hostage (who was kidnapped Sunday, November 15th), after meeting Monday afternoon with the Zindan tribe (kidnappers’ tribe) and the Sheikh of Arhab. The announcement of the hostage’s release was followed by a series...

A Japanese engineer kidnapped near Sanaa is still being held by Yemeni tribesmen, a mediator said on Wednesday, while Japan’s prime minister expressed hope the 63-year-old’s release was “close.Sheikh Abdel-Jalil, a tribal leader in Arhab, northeast of Sanaa where the...