Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized a Japanese engineer from his tribal kidnappers in Yemen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his ...
A Saudi soldier has been killed in clashes with Yemeni Shiite rebels at the border between the two countries, Saudi media reported on ...
A Japanese engineer kidnapped near Yemen's capital is "very well" and negotiations for his release are under way, a Yemeni mediator told AFP on Tuesday. "The Japanese hostage is very well and is being treated like a guest by his kidnappers, who ...
Yemen tribesmen kidnap Japanese engineer, demand release of jailed tribe member Armed tribesmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer working in Yemen and demanded the government release one of their imprisoned tribe members, the Japanese Embassy and a Yemeni security official said Monday. ...
Gunmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer near the Yemeni capital and want to exchange him for an arrested fellow tribesman, a local official said on Monday. The official in Arhab, a region northeast of Sanaa, told AFP that the Japanese man was ...
Yemeni armed forces and Zaidi Shiite rebels fought a fierce battle on Monday near the border with Saudi Arabia, as the rebels appealed to the Arab League to intervene on their behalf. "Heavy fighting was taking place in the middle of the ...
Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric accuses Iran of ties with Shiite rebels in Yemen Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric accused Iran on Monday of supporting Shiite rebels whose war with the government of neighboring Yemen has spilled across the border and drawn ...
For centuries, the traditional Turkish-style bathhouse -- hamam in Arabic -- has been a cornerstone of life in the Middle East, a place for social gatherings as well as for ritual cleansing. Many hamams are also architectural jewels in their own right. ...
Two Saudi soldiers have been killed and five wounded in fighting with Yemeni rebel "infiltrators" on the Saudi-Yemen border, Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday. As Saudi forces stepped up efforts to contain the rebellion, the Saudi navy has in the past ...
Two Saudi soldiers have been killed and five wounded in fighting with Yemeni rebel "infiltrators" on the Saudi-Yemen border, the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Saturday. Medical sources at Samtah hospital in the town of Jizan, near the Yemen border, told the ...
2 Yemeni brothers in Michigan can stay in US Two Yemeni brothers, one who married the daughter of a contemptuous general and the other who was jailed by the man's guards, have won permission to stay in the United States in a ...
The Pentagon said on Friday the United States had not signed a military cooperation deal with Yemen, refuting a report from Sanaa's official news agency. "There were no agreements signed," spokesman Bryan Whitman told AFP. But US military officers had recently held ...
