Germany and Italy have closed their embassies in Sana’a, the foreign ministries in Berlin and Rome said Friday, after Shiite Houthi fighters took control of the Yemeni capital. Germany said the embassy closed late Thursday, and the diplomats left the country early Friday. The closure is temporary and the government[…]
The UN special envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, has warned that the country may be on the brink of civil war and accused all sides of contributing to the political and economic turmoil. Yemen is slipping further into chaos as the Houthis, an armed Shia group from the north, consolidate[…]
The British Embassy in Yemen’s capital closed and evacuated its staff early Wednesday, authorities said, the latest diplomatic post to shut down in the Arab world’s poorest country amid turmoil following Shiite rebels seizing power. In a statement, U.K. Minister for the Middle East Tobias Ellwood also urged British citizens still[…]
President Barack Obama defended his counterterrorism strategy in tumultuous Yemen Sunday, saying efforts to root out a dangerous al-Qaida affiliate there would not be affected by the political vacuum in the country. The U.S. campaign against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is heavily dependent on using drone strikes to take[…]
Yemeni authorities re-opened the country’s main port in the southern city of Aden on Thursday, in a move that could ease political tensions. It came hours after embattled President Abd Rabu Mansour Hadi struck a deal with powerful Houthi rebels. “The decision to re-open Aden’s port and airport was made[…]
Shiite rebels in control of Yemen’s capital now hold the country’s president “captive” at his home, his aides said Wednesday, putting in question who actually rules the Arab world’s most-impoverished nation. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi “cannot leave his house” after Houthi rebels removed his guards and deployed their own fighters[…]
Gunmen abducted the chief of staff to Yemen’s president early Saturday in the center of the capital, Sanaa, security officials said, starkly highlighting the unrest plaguing the Arab world’s poorest country. The kidnapping of Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak comes as Yemen remains gripped by Shiite Houthi rebels and battered by[…]
The United States has released five Yemeni inmates from Guantanamo Bay prison, at least six years after they were cleared for release from the controversial jail in Cuba. Four of the inmates were sent to Oman, while one was sent to Estonia, the Pentagon said in a statement on Wednesday[…]
A top leader of Yemen’s al-Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for last week’s attack on Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo when two masked gunmen killed 12 people, including much of the weekly’s editorial staff and two police officers. Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or[…]
A suicide bomber driving a minibus full of explosives killed at least 15 people Wednesday morning near a police academy in the heart of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, security officials said. The blast wounded at least 40 people, officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized[…]
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