Yemen News
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While Ukraine, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan dominate the news cycle, conflicts rage across the globe with little or no media coverage. These are the wars that aren’t being covered by Western media outlets.
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Washington -
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that intelligence suggesting bomb makers from Yemen have teamed up with militants in Syria was "more frightening than anything" he had seen before.
In the Media
by AFP
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Washington D.c. -
A recent Gallup poll showed an astonishing 72% of Muslims support the policies and presidency of Barack Obama. Although Muslim-American academics explained the reason he is supported, they ignore reasons Muslims should condemn Obama's policies.
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Rayshan Bani Matar -
The United Nations Security Council called on Shiite rebels to leave the northern Yemeni city of Amran, which they seized in a major advance toward the capital.
In the Media
by AFP
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Sanaa -
Yemeni authorities on Wednesday accused Shiite rebels of "atrocities" in the northern city of Amran, which they seized in a major advance towards the capital.
In the Media
by Hammoud Mounassar (AFP)
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Sanaa -
Dozens of people have been killed in weekend clashes in northern Yemen between the army, allied tribes and Shiite Huthi rebels, military and tribal sources said Sunday.
In the Media
by AFP
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A suicide bombing inside a southern Saudi Arabian government building has left at least two confirmed dead, both of whom are believed to Al Qaeda linked militants.
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Paris -
As fears rise over warnings of new explosives able to slip by standard airport security checks, eyes are turning to southern Yemen and one man in particular: master Al-Qaeda bombmaker Ibrahim al-Asiri.
In the Media
by Michel Moutot (AFP)
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Aden -
Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen briefly seized a Yemeni airport in a deadly assault Thursday, just as a civilian airliner was landing, before the airfield was retaken by the army, officials said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Washington -
Yesterday, June 20, the U.S. House of Representatives approved an amendment to the 2015 Defense appropriations bill that would in effect ban transfer of any Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen.
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Sanaa -
Yemeni troops were surrounding a mosque controlled by ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh Sunday amid fears he is plotting a coup, days after the ex-strongman's media outlets were silenced.
In the Media
by Hammoud Mounassar (AFP)
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Sanaa -
Yemen's armed forces have killed 500 Al-Qaeda suspects in an assault on their southern strongholds since the end of April, the army said, even as the network killed 14 soldiers on Thursday.
In the Media
by Jamal al-Jabiri (AFP)
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Aden -
Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed 14 Yemeni soldiers and a civilian on Thursday in a southern province where troops have been battling the jihadists since late April, a security official said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Saywun -
Al-Qaeda militants, including suicide bombers, launched a massive pre-dawn assault on one of southeastern Yemen's main towns on Saturday, killing at least 15 soldiers and police, security officials said.
In the Media
by Fawaz al-Haidari (AFP)
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Rayshan Bani Matar -
Eleven Yemeni soldiers and 14 Shiite Huthi rebels were killed Tuesday during clashes in a stronghold of the insurgents in the north of the country, medics said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Sanaa -
Violence in Yemen continues as militants linked to Al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP) launch revenge attacks after an army offensive cleared them from some of their strongholds in the south.
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Washington -
Two U.S. officers shot and killed two armed civilians who tried to kidnap them last month in Yemen's capital, a State Department official said.The two Americans were removed from Yemen shortly after the shooting, the official added.
In the Media
by AFP
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Sanaa -
Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed five guards and captured others Friday in an attack on a checkpoint outside the Yemeni presidential palace in the capital Sanaa, a security source said.
In the Media
by AFP
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New York -
British hate preacher Abu Hamza told his US terror trial how he once jointly managed a London strip club in his quest to live a Western, movie-style life.
In the Media
by Jennie Matthew (AFP)
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Sanaa -
A Frenchman was killed on Monday and another was wounded when gunmen fired on their car in a diplomatic district in Sanaa, a security official told AFP.
In the Media
by AFP
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Aden -
The army on Sunday killed 40 Al-Qaeda suspects, mainly foreigners, and wounded dozens of others on day six of a major offensive in southern Yemen, military officials said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Aden -
Yemeni troops backed by aircraft on Thursday killed 13 suspected Al-Qaeda militants, including a local leader, as they pressed an offensive in southern and central Yemen, the defence ministry said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Aden -
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants killed 18 Yemeni soldiers in separate ambushes Tuesday as the army launched a ground offensive against their remaining strongholds in the south, medical and security sources said.
In the Media
by Fawaz al-Haidari (AFP)
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New York -
Al-Qaeda considered an attack on London's Canary Wharf just weeks after 9/11, said a British terror convict hugged by Osama bin Laden and dispatched to blow up a U.S. jetliner.
In the Media
by Jennie Matthew (AFP)
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Aden -
An "unprecedented" US and Yemeni aerial campaign in Yemen killed at least 68 Al-Qaeda militants in a bid to head off attacks by the network's local affiliate, officials said Monday.
In the Media
by AFP
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Sanaa -
A drone strike Saturday killed 15 Al-Qaeda suspects and three civilians in Yemen's central Baida province, a stronghold of the extremist group, a security official said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Sanaa -
A drone strike Saturday killed 15 Al-Qaeda suspects and three civilians in Yemen's central Baida province, a stronghold of the extremist group, a security official said.
In the Media
by AFP
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New York -
British hate preacher Abu Hamza goes on trial in New York on Monday, facing the rest of his life behind bars if found guilty on kidnapping and terror charges that predate the 9/11 attacks.
In the Media
by Brigitte DUSSEAU (AFP)
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Aden -
Al-Qaeda has claimed an attack on a Yemeni army headquarters in a tightly secured district of Aden in which 20 people died, most of them militants, a monitoring group said Thursday.
In the Media
by Fawaz al-Haidari (AFP)
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Aden -
Al-Qaeda militants launched a rocket and car bomb assault on an army headquarters in Yemen's southern city of Aden Wednesday in an assault that left 11 dead, including three attackers, officials said.
In the Media
by AFP
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Yemen Image
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Protesters raising separatist flags in the southern Dhalea governorate.
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WikiMedia Commons
Flag of Yemen
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With permission by Reuters / Mohamed al-Sayaghi
Soldiers gesture along a road leading to the Defence Ministry's compound as smoke rises after an attack, in Sanaa, December 5, 2013
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With permission by Reuters / Khaled Abdullah
Police troopers stand guard at checkpoint in Sanaa December 25, 2013
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With permission by Reuters / Khaled Abdullah
Smoke raises from the Defence Ministry's compound after an attack, in Sanaa December 5, 2013
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Peter Casier
A Yemeni child at school. Many Yemeni children are malnourished
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With permission by Reuters
Damaged vehicles are seen at the scene of a suicide attack at the Defence Ministry compound in Sanaa, December 5, 2013
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Demonstrators in Sana'a, Yemen.
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With permission by Reuters / Mohamed al-Sayaghi
Police officers look at a damaged vehicle at the site of three large explosions, near former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's house which is also within close proximity to the French embassy, in Sanaa. February 3, 2014
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Protesters storm the US embassy in Yemen
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Helene C Stikkel / US DoD
President Ali Abdallah Saleh and his delegation meet US Secretary of Defence Donald H Rumsfeld and his staff at the Pentagon on June 8, 2004. The two met to discuss defense issues of mutual interest.
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Hugh Macleod/IRIN
Unemployment tops 37 percent and is widely seen as driving Yemen’s multiple security crises and instability.
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My siblings and I in Yemen, circa 1993.
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Adel Yahya/IRIN
Displaced children in Habban area in the south.
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With permission by Reuters / Mohamed al-Sayaghi
A man looks at a damaged vehicle at the site of an explosion, near former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's house which is also within close proximity to the French embassy, in Sanaa February 3, 2014
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Yemeni army
A soldier aims his weapon on rebel targets in the northwestern Yemeni province of Saada.
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Yemen Fox
Mansur Al-Hadi, President of Yemen since 27 February 2012
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Wikipedia
Taiz province, Yemen
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