Yemen News

Aden - Forty-two illegal African migrants drowned when their boat overturned off Yemen's southern coast late on Sunday, the defence ministry reported.The boat smuggling dozens of African migrants "overturned off the coast of Beer Ali," in the southern Shabwa ...

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 - 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 - 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.

An Israeli singer has become an unlikely star in Yemen, an Arab country where his hit songs blare from cafes and taxis.

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 - 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.

Moroni - France has charged Yemenia Airways with manslaughter over a 2009 crash off the Comoros islands in which 152 people were killed, sources said Wednesday.

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.