A prominent political commentator says the Yemeni people should never trust the United States and its regional ally Saudi Arabia and should not consider them honest power brokers.
Randy Short made the remark in an exclusive interview with Press TV on Sunday while commenting on a recent power-sharing deal between the Yemeni government and Ansarullah ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday voiced strong concern over the Yemeni government's violent clamp down on peaceful protests, and asked Sana'a as well as all groups and parties in the country to exercise self-restraint.
"Only settlement of issues through talks and through a political and peaceful process which is participated ...
[caption id="attachment_111235" align="alignright" width="241"] Fighting between Houthi rebels and fighters loyal to the Islamist Islah party has killed at least 15 people in al-Jouf province. (Reuters)[/caption]
Fighting between Houthi rebels and fighters loyal to the Islamist Islah party has killed at least 15 people in al-Jouf province, Yemeni ...
Sanaa The son of Yemen's powerful Islamist Al-Islah (Reform) party's secretary general was badly injured when his father's car exploded in Sanaa on Tuesday, a security official told AFP.
"Omar Abdelwahab al-Ansi was critically wounded" in the explosion, the security official said, adding that "the attack was targeting the father but injured the son....
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Yemeni military official says fighting in the country's south between troops and tribesmen angry over a deadly shelling last week has killed eight people - five troops and three tribesmen.
The official says tribesmen belonging to a southern secessionist movement stormed the military barracks in the province of Lahj on Monday....
The Islamic Republic of Iran has condemned the deadly terrorist attack on the headquarters of Yemens Defense Ministry in the center of the capital, Sanaa.
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An explosion has hit an area near Yemens Ministry of Defense in the capital, Sanaa, security sources say.
Armed clashes erupted near the ministry after the explosion, which occurred on Thursday.
Following the incident, the Yemeni military said at least 20 people were killed and dozens injured in the bomb attack.
The attack took place shortly ...
Tens of thousands of Yemeni protesters have chanted anti-Israeli slogans during a funeral procession for an assassinated lawmaker in the capital, Sanaa.
On Tuesday, the Yemenis voiced their anger with the Israeli regime during the funeral procession for Houthi lawmaker Abdul Karim Jadban.
Jadban, gunned down by armed men on November 22, was a prominent ...
Yemens President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi has denounced the recent wave of deadly clashes between Takfiri militants and Houthi fighters, warning of sectarian violence in the country.
Hadi made the remarks in a speech aired by state TV on Tuesday, as violence continued for the second week in the town of Damaj in the northern province of Saada.
The ...
Dammaj, a small village situated in the northern province of Saada has been the scene over the past few weeks of an alarming escalation in violence between the Houthis - a Shiite group led by Sheikh Abdel-Malek al-Houthi - and Salafi militants.
While tensions between the two groups have span several decades, one group always trying to assert its religious ...
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Saudi government's plot to stage a coup in Yemen to topple President Abd Rabuh Mansur Hadifell flat after sensitive information leaked, informed sources disclosed on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia planned to stage a coup in Yemen similar to what it aided to happen in Egypt in a move to topple Yemeni President Mansur Hadi and replace him ...
Six months after its inception, Yemen National Dialogue Conference is unraveling under the weight of its representatives own political inadequacies and failures, risking engulfing the impoverished nation in yet another spell of violence and bloodshed as factions are barricading themselves behind a stubborn refusal to compromise.
Although President ...
Ever since Washington announced on August 1 it would close down several of its diplomatic posts across the Middle East and most specifically Yemen in response to an aggravated terror threat, the media have been in a frenzy, alleging that al-Qaeda was intent on targeting foreign interests both at home and abroad to revenge the death of one of its leaders,...
(Reuters) - Turmoil inYemenand the warnings of attacks that prompted the United States to shut diplomatic missions across the Middle East could hinder PresidentBarack Obama'splans to close Guantanamo Bay prison.
Obama's plan to restart the repatriation of Yemeni inmates, a large group at the prison, is coming under increasing scrutiny because of the ...
Two people have been killed and several others injured in a clash between soldiers once loyal to Yemen's ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh and a rival army faction in the capital Sanaa.
The clashes erupted on Friday when hundreds of members of Yemen's now dissolved elite Republican Guard gathered on a parade ground near the presidential palace in ...