Yemen

Clashes broke out Tuesday near the residence of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi in capital Sanaa amid ongoing confrontations between presidential guards and Shiite Houthi militants. "Fierce clashes...

Is Yemen undergoing a coup? That's what government officials in the country have alleged after a heavy outbreak of fighting in the capital Sanaa. The mainly Shia rebel group,...

A spokesman for the Houthi group accused Yemen's President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi of arming members of Al-Qaeda in the Marib province, east of the country, in order to create a...

Yemen's Shia Houthi movement on Saturday said it had detained the director of the office of President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi earlier in the day and said it was "forced" to...

A security committee in Aden, South Yemen, has banned motorcycle driving in all districts of the province starting from Wednesday. An official source said that, "the decision comes as...

Al Jazeera has condemned the death threats received by their Arabic Bureau Chief in Sanaa, Yemen. Saeed Thabit was threatened with "physical elimination" in an anonymous phone call. "This...

Yemeni authorities announced yesterday that they arrested a person who holds the Iranian citizenship in the southern Hadramaut province on charges of collaborating with Israel. According to Yemen's official...

Morocco has strongly condemned what has been described as "the despicable and subversive acts of terrorism" taking place in Yemen, stressing that the north African country is concerned about...

The Yemeni government yesterday renewed its refusal of the Houthis' interference in the work of state institutions, the Anadolu Agency reported. In an exceptional meeting for the government, headed...

The Houthi militant group has threatened to overrun Yemen's eastern oil-rich Maarib province, citing what it described as the lack of government action towards the alleged presence of hundreds...

Deputy head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, Lieutenant Gen. Hossein Salami, said that the forces linked to the Iranian revolution in Iraq, Syria and Yemen are 10 times larger...

When the Arab Spring protests swept the Middle East in 2011, Yemen was among the first countries to see a popular uprising against a long-entrenched dictator. The revolution was...

Shia Houthi militants have abducted a Yemeni tribal elder in capital Sanaa, a tribal source said Sunday. "Houthi militants kidnapped Sheikh Mohamed Abdullah Ghalib of the Nehim tribe," the...

Three fundamental and one extraneous force are currently colliding in our region. Each of these forces has its own agenda and because none of them is truly dominant, the...

It would not be a sweeping statement to say that the people of Yemen have been going through the most difficult moment in their 50-year history, since the Houthis...

Members of Shia Houthi rebels yesterday stormed the office of one of the country's largest state-owned newspapers. A source from the newspaper told the Anadolu Agency that armed Houthi...

Militants from the Shia Houthi group in Yemen blew up the office of a political party affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Sanaa's northern district of Arhab, eyewitnesses said...

A US hostage held by the Al-Qaeda group has been killed during a rescue operation in Yemen's southern Shabwah province, a senior Yemeni security source said Saturday. "Luke Somers...

The Saudi ambassador in Sanaa, Mohammed Saeed Al-Jaber, revealed on Monday that his country will provide food aid worth $54 million to Yemen to support nearly 45,000 Yemeni families,...

Supporters of a southern Yemeni separatist movement sent a letter to the Russian consulate in Aden yesterday asking for support as they attempt to secede from northern Yemen. Members...

In order for us to be realistic, we must describe the Arab revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Syria as "takeaway" revolutions; they are like fast foods that...

One day you are America's closest ally on the war on terror, the next you find yourself on their hit list. And so the mad circus of this endless...

Yemen's Houthis on Saturday called for making modifications in the newly-formed government of their country, saying ministers involved in corruption ought be kept away from this government. "The new...

The United Nations Security Council on Friday slapped targeted sanctions against a former Yemeni president and two Shia tribal leaders for threatening the stability of the country and impeding...

Yemen's ruling General People's Congress party has sacked President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi from his post as GPC secretary-general. "The party's General Committee has decided to sack Hadi from...

Dozens of students from the government run University of Sanaa protested today calling for the removal of the Houthis from their campus. According to the Anadolu Agency correspondent, the...

A Yemeni official said on Sunday that the province of Al-Bayda' in central Yemen is suffering from a severe shortage in medical devices, pharmaceuticals and medical specialists due to...

Shiite Yemenis, who have been controlling Sanaa since September 21, gave President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi a 10-day ultimatum to form a government or they will take over the...

As seen in all the countries that partook in the Arab Spring and succeeded in toppling their dictator leader, the revolution did not end by the removal of their...

Houthi militants stormed Dhamar University in southern Sanaa on Wednesday, according to a university source. A source that preferred to remain anonymous told Anadolu news agency that "Houthi militants...

A tribal mediation committee in Yemen has negotiated a 15-hour truce between the tribal fighters and the Houthi fighters in the governorate of Ibb in the middle of Yemen,...

A representative of the Houthi movement, Saleh Al-Sammat, left a meeting with Yemeni President Abed Rabbu Hadi Mansour on Sunday after the latter accused the Houthis of occupying key...