Yemen News

Yemen says it has recaptured ground from the Houthi rebels in the northern Saada province, while Saudi Arabia says its paratroopers are conducting mop-up operations along the border.

An Al Arabiya screen grab of an Iranian boat is seized by Yemeni coast gaurds in the Red Sea for allegedly carrying arms to Shi'ite rebels locked in fierce fighting with the army since August in the rugged mountains of northern Yemen.

Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized a Japanese engineer from his tribal kidnappers in Yemen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday.

SANA'A, Yemen a " Yemen's coast guard says Somali pirates have hijacked a Panamanian cargo ship in the treacherous Gulf of Aden between the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa.A coast guard official says the Red Sea Spirit was carrying an unknown number of crew when it was hijacked Friday morning 36 nautical miles from the Yemeni port of ...

Yemeni government troops have killed a leader of Shiite rebels and Saudi forces backed by helicopters have attacked the insurgents across the border, state media said on Thursday.

Yemeni tribesmen have suspended the release of a Japanese engineer late on Tuesday after they learnt that the Yemeni government refused to give its seal of approval to the deal, a security official at the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

With rhinoceros horns under a world preservation order, increased use of plastic from China and lack of interest from young men, Yemen's "jambia" is under threat.

Yemeni authorities have informed the Japanese Embassy in Yemen that a 63-year-old Japanese engineer kidnapped by armed tribesmen in Yemen has been freed, an embassy official said Tuesday.

It's wedding season in Yemen and traditionally, that's meant three things: music, dancing and joyously firing an array of pistols, assault rifles, rocket-launchers, anti-aircraft mortars and grenade launchers into the air to celebrate the occasion.

Malahidh, in the west of hilly Saada province, stronghold of the rebellion, has been a key battleground since the army launched its - Operation Scorched Earth' against the rebels on August 11.

Saudi Prince Fahd bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, governor of Tabuk region, offers his condolences to the family of Saudi General Said bin Mohamed al-Amri who was killed at the border with Yemen, in the northern city of Tabuk yesterday Yemeni and Saudi forces pounded Shia rebel positions along the border between the two countries yesterday, witnesses and ...

Yemeni tribesmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer in an area northeast of the capital Sanaa to press for the release of jailed relatives, Reuters news agency reported Monday, quoting a provincial official.

Monday, November 16, 2009 TEHRAN: Ali Larijani, the speaker of Iran's parliament, on Sunday accused Tehran's arch-foe Washington of masterminding Saudi Arabia's bombing of Yemeni rebels, parliament's website reported.

Huthi rebels, eight of whom were sentenced to death, shout slogans in the courtroom as they hear their sentences pronounced A Yemeni court has sentenced eight Shiite Zaidi rebels to death and 13 others to between five and 12 years in jail over deadly clashes near the capital that killed hundreds of people in 2008.

Two Saudi soldiers have been killed and five wounded in fighting with Yemeni rebel "infiltrators" on the Saudi-Yemen border, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday.

Two Yemeni brothers, one who married the daughter of a contemptuous general and the other who was jailed by the man's guards, have won permission to stay in the United States in a case stemming from the forbidden love.

YEMEN REBELS said yesterday that Saudi fighter aircraft had fired 145 missiles at 15 villages in the country's northern province of Saada.

Yemen said yesterday that it had signed a military co-operation deal with the US although the US embassy would confirm only that talks had been held on joint counter-terrorism efforts.

Yemen has signed an agreement with the United States for cooperation on military intelligence and training, its official news agency reported, as the Arabian peninsula state faces a worsening rebellion in the north.

SOMALI pirates seized a Greek cargo ship and a Yemeni fishing boat in the latest attacks demonstrating their ability to evade international naval forces, gunmen and officials said yesterday.