A Saudi who was freed by US authorities from detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to become second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has died after being wounded by Yemeni security forces, a Yemeni security official said today.
Demonstrators attacked the US embassies in Yemen and Egypt today in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam and American warships headed to Libya following the death of the US ambassador there in related violence earlier in the week.
Fury about a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad tore across the Middle East after weekly prayers with protesters attacking US embassies and burning US flags as the Pentagon rushed to bolster security at its missions.
More than 10 suspected al Qaeda operatives were killed by an explosion in a house in south Yemen where they were making bombs, and at least six others died in two strikes from US drones, tribal and official sources said today.
A suicide bomber killed 63 soldiers at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today, a police sources said.
Suspected al Qaeda-linked militants killed at least 14 Yemeni soldiers and security guards in a car bombing and grenade attack on the intelligence service headquarters in Aden, the Defence Ministry and witnesses said.
A Saudi national freed by US authorities from detention at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who then became second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, was killed in Yemen, a Yemeni government website said.
A suicide bombing claimed by al Qaeda killed at least 26 people outside a presidential palace in southern Yemen, hours after the newly-elected president was sworn in and said the battle against the Islamists was a "national duty".
The FBI is investigating an explosive device that could have been used by a suicide bomber on an airliner, and which was seized when the United States and its partners thwarted a plot believed linked to al Qaeda, US officials said on Monday.
Bulgaria's ambassador to Yemen escaped with minor injuries on Saturday after masked gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital and tried to kidnap him, a Western diplomat said.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said today he would leave for the United States and give way to a successor, hours after his forces killed nine people demanding he be tried for killings over nearly a year of protests aimed at his ouster.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrived in the United States for medical treatment today, a week after leaving Yemen for Oman under a plan for him to step down to end a year of protests against his rule.
Yemen pushed Ali Abdullah Saleh from power after 33 years today, voting to install his deputy as president with a mission to rescue the nation from poverty, chaos and the brink of civil war.
Yemen named an opposition leader as interim prime minister under a deal aimed at ending months of protests which have brought the country to the verge of civil war.
The United Nations called on all factions in Yemen today to cease deadly attacks on civilians and urged the government to allow access for aid supplies and UN human rights monitors.
Three women from Liberia and Yemen received the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in the Norwegian capital today.
The head of the media department of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was killed in an air raid on militant outposts in Yemen, and gunmen retaliated by blowing up a gas export pipeline, Yemeni officials and residents said.
Three French aid workers held hostage by Yemeni tribesmen since May 28 have been freed after neighboring Oman negotiated their release, paying an unspecified sum to their captors on behalf of the French government, a Yemeni tribal source said.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a Gulf initiative today to hand over power to his deputy as part of a proposal to end months of protests that have pushed the Arab country to the brink of civil war.
Yemen's defense minister survived a suicide bomb attack on his convoy in the south today, while thousands of protesters took to the streets of the capital repeating their calls for the president to quit.
Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born cleric linked to al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, has been killed, Yemen's Defense Ministry said. According to a US official, Anwar al-Awlaki planned and directed attacks on US interests as "chief of external operations" for al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing, a senior US official said.
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he would leave power in the coming days, the closest the veteran leader has come to announcing he plans to step down after nine months of mass protests against his 33 year rule.
Yemeni security forces killed 21 people, some shot by snipers from rooftops, in a crowd of demonstrators in the worst bloodshed seen since March against a protest movement demanding the removal of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Raging battles between heavily armed loyalists and foes of Yemen's president killed 10 people in the capital as a crisis over a violent state crackdown on popular unrest drifted towards civil war.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh unexpectedly returned to Yemen after three months in Saudi Arabia recovering from an assassination attempt, raising the risk of further violence and civil war.
Some 54,000 Yemenis have fled the flashpoint southern province of Abyan since militants took over its capital last month, a government official said, as fighting intensified in the area.
The United States has urged Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh not to return home from Saudi Arabia, where he has been recovering from injuries suffered in an assassination attempt during a popular uprising, diplomatic sources said today.
At least 26 people were shot dead and hundreds wounded today when security forces fired on demonstrators who charged police lines in Yemen's capital Sanaa, in a dramatic escalation of protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Talks between Yemen's vice president and the opposition stalled today after the country's acting leader ignored the opposition's demand that President Ali Abdullah Saleh quit immediately.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, taken to Saudi Arabia for wounds suffered during an attack on his palace earlier this month, will return to the country within days, a Yemeni official said today.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is not likely to return home soon from Saudi Arabia, where he is recovering from serious injuries suffered in an attack on his palace this month, a Western diplomat said today.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was recovering from an operation in Saudi Arabia to remove shrapnel from his chest while a truce between his troops and a tribal federation appeared to be holding.
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh will return from medical treatment in Saudi Arabia in days, the acting leader said as thousands celebrated what they hope will be a new era without him.
Bodies lay in the streets of a southern Yemeni town as government forces battled Islamist militants, a local official said, underscoring the gravity of Yemen's multiple conflicts.
Overnight clashes in the Yemeni capital killed dozens more people and grounded flights as a US envoy arrived in the region to press President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down and prevent his country imploding.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh blamed an 'outlaw gang' among his tribal enemies for a shelling attack on a mosque in the presidential compound that slightly injured him and several aides and killed seven people.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in an attack in his compound, was reported by al Arabiya television to have left for Saudi Arabia, but a Yemeni official and Saudi source denied he had gone.
Yemeni tribesmen said they wrested a military compound from elite troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside the capital Sanaa as increased fighting threatened to tip the country into civil war.
An informal ceasefire between President Ali Abdullah Saleh's security forces and a tribal group brought a pause in fighting today after nearly a week of deadly clashes left Yemen near civil war.
Renewed fighting in Yemen's capital between a powerful tribal group and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces has killed at least 19 people this week and rocked Sanaa with explosions, officials said.
Yemeni loyalist forces fought a gunbattle with opponents of entrenched President Ali Abdullah Saleh one day after he backed out of a Gulf-brokered accord for him to step down.
Yemeni loyalist forces fought street battles with guards from a powerful tribal federation whose leader has sided with protesters demanding an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule, witnesses said
Leaders of the Group of Eight called on Yemen's president to quit, hoping to avert civil war flaring up in one part of the Arab world as they prepared to help new democracies flourish in another.
Yemen's ruling party held open the possibility that President Ali Abdullah Saleh would sign a deal that would soon ease him out of office as Washington heaped pressure on the entrenched leader to transfer power.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has agreed to sign a Gulf-brokered power transition, called for early elections to prevent bloodshed as three months of protests raged on in the fractious country.
Yemen's opposition signed a Gulf-brokered transition deal that will ease President Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power within a month, provided he ratifies the agreement as promised on Sunday.
Qatar pulled out of a Gulf-brokered plan to ease Yemen's president from power, leaving a deal to end months of violent protests against Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule close to collapse.
Huge crowds in Sanaa and other Yemeni cities demanded that President Ali Abdullah Saleh leave after months of popular tumult that has brought the Arab world's poorest country close to economic meltdown.
A deal on a transition of power in Yemen fell through at the last minute on, even as Washington stepped up pressure on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to sign a Gulf-brokered agreement to ease him out of office.
Yemen's Gulf-brokered deal to remove President Ali Abdullah Saleh from power was on the verge of collapse after Saleh refused to sign, raising the threat of further instability in the Arabian Peninsula state.
A deal to remove Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh looked doomed after he refused to sign, raising the threat of more instability in the Arab state.
Yemeni forces opened fire on demonstrators in three cities killing at least nine and wounding scores in escalating bloodshed that could ramp up public fury at the president's refusal to step down.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down in weeks in return for immunity from prosecution but it was unclear if the move, also agreed by opposition heads, would stem a tide of street protest.
Yemen's veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh has struck a defiant tone in an interview, a day after his government said he had accepted a Gulf Arab plan to hand over power within weeks.
Yemen's opposition has agreed to take part in a transitional government under a Gulf-negotiated peace plan for veteran leader Ali Abdullah Saleh to step aside, an opposition source said.
A blast at a bullet factory in south Yemen killed at least 110 people when residents broke in to steal ammunition a day after clashes between militants and the army in the town, doctors said.
Police using live rounds and teargas wounded around 409 protesters who tried to march to a presidential palace in Yemen's Red Sea city of Hudaida early on Monday, doctors said
The US government is trying to ratchet up pressure on Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to reach a deal with the opposition that would ultimately lead to his handing over power, US officials said.
Yemeni police opened fire on protesters in the capital Sanaa, wounding at least 65 people demonstrating for an end to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year-old rule, hospital sources said.
Yemeni security forces and pro-government gunmen killed at least 30 people and wounded around 50 others when they opened fire at a protest in Sanaa after Muslim prayers, medical sources and witnesses confirmed.
Top generals, ambassadors and some tribes threw their support behind Yemen's anti-government protesters in a major blow to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's efforts to ride out demands for his immediate exit.
The US embassy in Yemen called on opposition groups to refrain from "provocative action" and talk to the government following large street protests in the impoverished Arab country.
Thousands of Yemeni demonstrators, called for a similar revolution and clashed with government supporters with fists and batons in the streets of Sanaa. In Algeria's capital about 50 people began an anti-government protest but police were determined to stamp out any attempt to stage anything similar to Egypt's revolt.
Tens of thousands of protesters flooded Yemen's streets in a "Day of Rage," demanding an end to the president's three-decade rule.
Yemen's Transport Minister Waed Abdullah Bathib survived an assassination attempt on Saturday when shots were fired at his car, a local government official said.