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The leader of the al-Qaida-linked militant group that has seized territory in southern Yemen called on local residents to hold mass rallies against the military until the government withdraws its troops from the area.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left his battered nation Sunday on his way to the U.S. for medical treatment after passing power to his deputy and asking for forgiveness for any "shortcomings" during his 33-year rein.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said Sunday he will travel to Washington for medical treatment and he asked Yemenis for forgiveness, saying it is time to hand over power in a farewell speech, state media reported.
SANAA, Yemen — A Norwegian man who was working for the United Nations was kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday, officials said.
A French journalist was found strangled with an electrical wire in his hotel room in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa on Monday, security officials said.
Labor strikes spread through Yemen Wednesday as workers demanded reforms and dismissal of managers over alleged corruption linked to the country's outgoing president.
A Yemeni military official says a battle against al-Qaida-linked fighters in the south has killed 10 of the militants and five soldiers.
Six al-Qaida militants have been arrested while allegedly planning attacks on senior government officials as well as Arab and other foreign diplomatic missions, Yemen's official news agency said Tuesday.
Yemen's official news agency says a national unity government has been created to take over from ministers allied with embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who agreed Wednesday to step down after a ferocious uprising against him, was perhaps the slipperiest leader in the Middle East.
Yemen's embattled president on Wednesday put forward yet another condition for leaving office, demanding the U.S, European Union and Gulf nations offer guarantees before he signs a deal to transfer power and step down.
She is known among Yemenis as "the iron woman" and the "mother of the revolution." A conservative woman fighting for change in a conservative Muslim and tribal society, Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman has been the face of the mass uprising against the authoritarian regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh made vague comments Saturday that he is willing to leave power in his first major speech since returning Yemen, but he gave no concrete plan for the future of the country. Yemen's opposition cast doubt that the embattled leader was serious.
The heavy black beard spoke of Islamic piety, the fashionable wire-rim glasses of Western style.
A government warplane bombed an army position in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 soldiers involved in months of intense battles against al-Qaida members, officials said Sunday.
Security officials and witnesses say a suicide attacker driving an explosives-laden car has blown himself up next to the passing convoy of Yemen's defense minister, who escaped the attack unscathed.
Yemeni medical officials say pro-regime forces have killed nine people on a third day of deadly violence in the rapidly escalating showdown between protesters and the embattled president.
Thousands of protesters backed by military defectors seized a base of the elite Republican Guards on Monday, weakening the control of Yemen's embattled president over this poor, fractured Arab nation. His forces fired on unarmed demonstrators elsewhere in the capital, killing scores, wounding hundreds and sparking international condemnation.
Two Yemeni soldiers were killed and four wounded Sunday by a roadside bomb blast in southern Yemen as government forces battled for control of a key city held by al-Qaida-linked militants for nearly four months.
Activists say Yemeni security forces have fired on a rally in the capital Sanaa, wounding five.
Yemeni military and medical officials say an airstrike has killed eight suspected al-Qaida militants, including a group leader, in the south of the country.
Yemeni opposition groups and protest leaders have formed a national council on Wednesday to step up pressure on Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh to relinquish power.
Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis poured into the streets of major cities and towns across the country on Friday, keeping the pressure on the nation's embattled president to step down.
Yemeni government airstrikes that accidentally killed 40 people last week, including four army officers and a tribal sheik, brought an abrupt halt to the largest military effort yet to dislodge al-Qaida-linked militants from a key southern town, officials and tribal fighters said Tuesday.
Men linked to al-Qaida's offshoot in Yemen are demanding a $12 million ransom for three abducted French aid workers, security officials and local tribesmen said Wednesday.
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