Geneva - The International Commission against the Death Penalty (ICDP) steps up its campaign this week for the abolition of the death penalty worldwide.

Sanaa - At least 24 people were killed on Friday as Yemeni troops and allied Islamists engaged in heavy fighting with Shiite rebels in the north, tribal sources said.The fighting, in which soldiers aided by fighters from the Islamist Al-Islah party were pitted...

Sanaa - Human Rights Watch issued a 28-page report investigating the attack in December 2013 on a wedding procession in Yemen. The attack killed at least 12 men and wounded at least 15 others including the bride.

Sanaa - Atlaf Zaid Alwazir is a blogger and researcher who works in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. She writes in an Al Jazeera article of the fate of the Yemeni revolution three years after it began.

Sanaa - In the Yemeni capital Sanaa, members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have mounted an attack on the Central Prison that killed at least 11 people and freed at least 14 inmates.

Sanaa - Fourteen inmates, mostly from Al-Qaeda, managed to escape from the central prison in Yemen's capital Thursday when gunmen launched a deadly assault on the facility, officials said.Seven policemen and three gunmen were killed, according to the interior ...

Sanaa - Tens of thousands of Yemenis gathered in protest in the capital Sanaa, calling for the government to resign on the third anniversary of the start of the 2011 protests that ended in former president Abdullah Saleh stepping down in early 2012.

Sanaa - A panel headed by Yemen president Mansour Hadi has decided to divide the country into six federal districts with two in the south and four in the north.

Sanaa - Gunmen raked a military bus with gunfire in Yemen's capital Sanaa moments before it was hit by a bomb, leaving two soldiers dead and 12 wounded, witnesses and an official said.

Sanaa - Shiite Huthi rebels have overrun strongholds of powerful tribes in northern Yemen, witnesses said, in a major advance following a month of combat that has killed scores of people.

Sanaa - After weeks of clashes that have left many dead and wounded, Houthi separatist rebels have managed to dislodge powerful tribes from areas of northern Yemen.

Sanaa - Yesterday (Jan. 31), suspected al-Qaeda militants made two surprise attacks on a checkpoint and a police patrol killing 15 in one incident and two in another.

Sanaa - As the reconciliation talks, the National Dialogue, come to an end, a prominent member of the Houthi Shia delegation has been assassinated.

Aden - Ever had the feeling that your "better half" spends more time on WhatsApp than he or she does with you? Well this Yemeni wife decided to do something about it, and took her errant husband to court.

Aden - The Yemeni army shelled the home of Yassin Said in the town of Daleh in the south of the country. Said was seriously injured while his pregnant wife and three- and five-year-old daughters were all killed.

Sanaa - An Iranian diplomat was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting outside the ambassador's residence in the Yemeni capital Saturday, the third attack on embassy personnel in recent months.

Sanaa - When the government ignores tribal demands, Yemeni tribes often sabotage pipelines as a means of pressuring the government to provide jobs, settle land disputes, or release members from prison.

Aden - Suspected Al-Qaeda operatives gunned down Colonel Marwan al-Maqbali in Aden as he was leaving his house. The shots were fired from a car a security official claimed.

Sanaa - A Yemeni army tank shelled a funeral tent erected by the Southern Movement at a school in the city of Daleh killing 13 people including three children according to officials and medics.

Sanaa - Political parties in Yemen have signed a document that promises a "just solution" for the south where secessionists have been demanding autonomy and some a separate state.