Yemen

Yemen

• Yemen: 3 Red Cross workers, 2 Egyptians released

  Three Red Cross workers and two Egyptian technicians who were abducted by armed men in Yemen's southern province of Abyan have all been released, ... 

• Red Cross: 3 workers kidnapped in Yemen released

  Three Red Cross workers who were kidnapped by armed men in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan have been safely released, the organization said ... 

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  Gov't obtains wide AP phone records in probe

  The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news ... 

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  Military plane crashes in Yemen's capital

  A Yemeni military plane on a training exercise exploded in midair over the country's capital on Monday, killing the pilot and slamming into a ... 

• Red Cross says 3 workers kidnapped in Yemen

  The International Committee of the Red Cross says three of its workers have been kidnapped in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan. Dibeh Fakhr, a ... 

• Yemen's leader warns of al-Qaida expansion

  The president of Yemen on Thursday warned that the al-Qaida branch in the country was expanding and using assassinations and abductions of foreigners ... 

• 2 Finns, 1 Austrian freed from captivity in Yemen

  Finland says two Finnish and one Austrian hostage who were kidnapped in Yemen in December have been released. Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja ... 

• Militants kill 3 Yemeni air force pilots near base

  Suspected militants shot and killed three senior Yemeni air force pilots traveling to an air base in the country's south on Wednesday, security ... 

• Yemeni tribesmen kidnap 2 Egyptian technicians

  A Yemeni security official says tribal gunmen have kidnapped two Egyptian technicians working in a cement factory in the south. The official said the ... 

• Large protests in southern Yemen for secession

  Tens of thousands of Yemenis rallied across the south to mark the 19th anniversary of the start of the country's brief, but bloody civil war. In a ... 

• Yemen: 5 soldiers, 2 al-Qaida militants killed

  A Yemeni security official says five soldiers and two al-Qaida militants have been killed in fighting in the central town of Radda, and a senior ... 

• Yemen court sentences 11 al-Qaida militants

  A Yemeni court on Tuesday sentenced 11 convicted al-Qaida militants to up to 10 years in prison for forming armed gangs to destabilize the country and ... 

• Yemen officials: US drone kills 2 militants

  Yemeni army officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed two suspected al-Qaida militants east of the capital, sparking a retaliatory attack on a ... 

• Yemenis dismantle tents, declare end of revolution

  In a symbolic move, Yemenis on Thursday began to dismantle protest tent camp in the capital, Sanaa, and other cities across the country, declaring the ... 

• Yemen: US drone strikes kill 5 al-Qaida suspects

  Two U.S. drone strikes Wednesday killed at least five suspected al-Qaida militants and destroyed the house of one of them in a mountainous area south ... 

• Yemen president orders military shakeup

  Yemen's president removed his predecessor's son and nephews from powerful security posts on Wednesday in the most dramatic step yet in sidelining old ... 

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  Al-Qaida denies its No. 2 in Yemen was killed

  Al-Qaida in Yemen posted a statement on militant websites Monday saying that its second-most senior commander has not been killed. It was the second ... 

• Yemen: Ex-president Saleh leaves for Saudi Arabia

  Officials at the airport of Yemen's capital Sanaa say former president Ali Abdullah Saleh has left for Saudi Arabia for medical treatment on a special ... 

• Yemeni gunmen open fire, wound Red Cross employee

  A Yemeni security official says an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross was wounded when gunmen opened fire at her car in the ... 

• Yemen clashes between al-Qaida, militiamen kill 9

  Yemini security officials say clashes in the south between al-Qaida and pro-government fighters have killed nine. The officials said Sunday that ... 

• Yemen clashes between al-Qaida, militiamen kill 4

  Yemen's Defense Ministry says clashes in the south between al-Qaida and pro-government fighters have killed four. A ministry statement on Friday says ... 

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  Yemen secessionist calls for independence of south

  A member of the Yemeni al-Harak secessionist movement won applause at a landmark national dialogue on Tuesday by declaring that the south has the ... 

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  Yemen parties debate new political system

  Yemen's politicians, youth, women and intellectuals opened a landmark national dialogue Monday on the future of the transition to democracy, and high ... 

• Saudi border guards arrest 4,360 infiltrators

  A Saudi official says in a single month, border guards have arrested more than 4,000 infiltrators on the Yemen border, most of them looking for work.