Yemen Conflict & Tragedy News

An Islamic cleric connected to the Fort Hood, Texas, shootings left the United States in 2002 after an arrest warrant for him was canceled, sources say. Citing "sources familiar with the case," ABC News reported Monday that a warrant for...

But the trees that produce the most sought-after leaves now lie in a war zone. Mohammed Ahmed Ghanem runs a stall selling qat in the Yemeni capital's upscale Kuwait Market. Prices for an afternoon's worth of the stimulant leaves can...

The release of more than 90 Yemenis still being held at the facility may be delayed due to US fears that Yemen does not have the capacity to ensure the men will not rejoin al-Qaeda. The US has cautioned that if Yemen does not build...

Yemeni security forces have foiled a plot to assassinate the head of the local Jewish community, Yahiya Ben-Yousef, Kuwaiti Al-Siyasa newspaper said Friday. According to the report, three armed Shi'ite rebels were arrested when they entered the Jewish compound in...

Natural gas prices have collapsed with the economic downturn and a world ever more obsessed with being green, and more efficient power generation threatens to eat into future gas demand. Beyond the global market for LNG, Yemen’s political stability is...

On Tuesday the Yemen Defense Ministry denied allegations made by the Houthi rebels that Saudi Arabian artillery pounded a border area under their control.   “Such allegations only show that the rebels can tell that their defeat is at hand...

The employees failing to file their disclosures work at the capital secretariat, Aden, Sana’a governorate, Taiz, Hodeidah, Sada, Mukala and al-Maharah. Al-Matari explained that failures to file their financial disclosures without excuse will be punishable by the law to imprisonment...

Updated on Thursday, October 01, 2009, 15:35 IST Washington: Al Qaeda has suffered setbacks due to US pressure but its presence in Yemen threatens to turn that country into a dangerous base for training and plotting attacks, a top US...