Yemen Politics News

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...

Fighter jets began the bombing campaign across the border on Wednesday afternoon after a border guard was killed and 11 wounded by gunmen who had crossed from Yemen, said the adviser, who did not want to be identified. There was...

Saudi officials say their forces struck after Shia rebels attacked a patrol in the Asir region, killing one soldier. Three more soldiers died in the fighting, officials say, but they deny rebel claims that others were captured. The rebels, known...

Saudi Arabia yesterday imposed a naval blockade on the Red Sea coast of northern Yemen to combat Shiite rebels along its border, an adviser to the government said, in the latest escalation of fighting in the southern Arabian peninsula. The...

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) and its partners have reached almost 100,000 displaced Yemenis with food assistance in four northern governorates since August when a new round of fighting erupted between government troops and rebel forces, stated a...

Lebanon — As clashes continued Friday between the Saudi military and Yemeni rebels on the remote border between the two countries, both sides claimed to have inflicted casualties and captured enemy soldiers. The conflict started earlier this week when the...

The Japanese kidnapped by an armed group in Arhab last Sunday was released and is in a good condition and in the way to the capital, said top security sources in Sana'a governorate who spoke in the condition of being...