Yemen’s Shiite rebels have fired rockets and mortars into Saudi Arabia today, killing at least two civilians.

Since Saudi Arabia's foundation, its leaders have tried to keep a friendly regime in power in Yemen to prevent it from posing a threat. However, Mohamad Bazzi says this time the stakes are higher

Thousands of protesters have demonstrated across Yemen, some supporting the Shiite rebels who seized the capital and others demanding the country’s south secede after the nation’s president and cabinet resigned.

A suspected US drone strike has targeted a car carrying al Qaida militants in southern Yemen, killing all five passengers, security officials said.

Yemen says it has foiled plots by al Qaida to take over key cities and attack strategic ports and gas facilities amid heightened anti-terror tension in the country.

Suspected US drone strikes have killed seven al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen.

Egypt’s top security body warned that the clock was ticking for a peaceful end to the stand-off over sit-ins by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi, suggesting authorities would break up the protests unless mediation produced results soon.

The United States issued an extraordinary global travel warning to Americans about the threat of an al-Qaida attack and closed down 21 embassies and consulates across the Muslim world for the weekend.

Thousands of Yemenis have rallied across the country’s south to mark the 45th anniversary of independence from British occupation and demand autonomy from the north.

All 10 people on board a Yemeni military plane were killed when it crashed during training over the capital, Sanaa, early today, security officials said.

Yemeni armed forces have killed Said al-Shehri, a Saudi national seen as the second-in-command of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a government website said yesterday.

Al-Qaida gunmen shot dead four soldiers in one of the militants’ former south Yemen strongholds as the local governor declared that the country’s ill-equipped police force is incapable of filling the security void left by months of clashes.

Al Qaida gunmen shot four soldiers dead in one of the militants’ former south Yemen strongholds today, officials said, as the local governor declared that the country’s ill-equipped police force is incapable of filling the security void left by months of clashes.

Yemen's army has regained control of one of al Qaida's key strongholds in the south which the militant group has held for more than a year, the state-run news agency said today.

Yemeni leaders led a sombre ceremony today to mark the country’s national day, scaling back celebrations a day after a suicide bombing killed nearly 100 soldiers during a rehearsal for a military parade.

A suicide bomber with explosives strapped under his uniform killed more than 90 people at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital Sana’a, an attack which will alarm Washington as its involvement in the front-line state deepens.

At least 38 soldiers were killed and dozens of others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade drill in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today.

Al Qaida militants have staged a surprise attack on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 20 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a US drone strike killed a senior figure in the terror network wanted in connection with the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.

Yemeni government troops have killed more than 100 al Qaida fighters in the past two days in an offensive against militant hideouts in the country’s south, the interior ministry said.

Yemeni government forces regained control of a strategic gateway in the south today after intense three-day shelling of al Qaida hideouts in the area that left 43 militants dead, military and medical officials said.

As world leaders close ranks against Syrian leader Bashar Assad, the US president summed up the popular wisdom during a recent White House press conference: “Ultimately, this dictator will fall.”

Two gunmen on a motorbike have shot an American teacher working at a language institute dead in a central Yemeni city, the region's provincial governor said.

Every few years the dark side of humanity reminds us of how bestial, how savage we can be when we put aside all the constraints of civilised behaviour.

The death toll among Yemeni government troops attacked by al-Qaida militants at the weekend has risen to 185, military officials said today.

A car bomb outside the gate of a presidential compound in a southern Yemeni city killed at least 25 people, a health official said, hours after the country’s new president was formally inaugurated and vowed to fight al-Qaida.

Abed Rabo Mansour Hadi has been sworn in as Yemen’s new president, replacing Ali Abdullah Saleh who ruled the country for 33 years before leaving office in a power transfer deal aimed at ending more than a year of political turmoil.

OUTGOING president Ali Abdullah Saleh apologised for “any shortcoming” in his 33-year rule before leaving Yemen for the US yesterday, paving the way for a transfer of power after a year of unrest.

The UN Secretary General today demanded that Syria’s president stop killing his own people, saying the revolutions of the Arab Spring show that people will no longer accept tyranny.

Yemen’s powerful Republican Guard forces opened fire with guns, tear gas and water cannons today at a march by more than 100,000 protesters demanding that the outgoing president be put on trial.

Yemen's President has arrived in Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to sign a deal to transfer power to his deputy.

Three French aid workers kidnapped in Yemen have been freed, with the help of the sultan of Oman, after nearly six months in captivity, officials in Paris have revealed.

Landfalls

Yemen’s defiant president addressed his troubled nation for the first time since returning to the country after an assassination attempt, making no promise to immediately step down but saying he is committed to a deal to end months of spiralling violence.

YEMEN’S President Ali Abdullah Saleh has called for a ceasefire saying the only way out of the crisis is through negotiations.

THE US is building a ring of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of an aggressive campaign against al-Qaida affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

YEMENI president Ali Abdullah Saleh will make a media appearance within the next 48 hours, his secretary said yesterday.

The departure of Yemen’s battle-wounded president for treatment in Saudi Arabia set off wild street celebrations in the capital, where crowds danced, sang and slaughtered cows in hopes that this spelled a victorious end to a more than three-month campaign to push their leader from power.

Yemen’s embattled president vowed he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a “failed state” even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital.

Yemen’s embattled president vowed today he would not step down or allow his impoverished nation to become a “failed state” even as urban combat between government troops and armed tribesmen engulfed parts of the capital.

Twelve protesters were killed when Yemeni security forces opened fire on a massive anti-government demonstration in the capital Sanaa.

Tens of thousands of protesters have poured into the streets of a city in southern Yemen in ongoing protests against long-time president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Security forces fired on crowds of protesting Yemenis today, killing at least six and wounding more than 30, in an increasing crackdown against the uprising.

ISLAMIC militants seized control of a weapons factory, a strategic mountain and a nearby town in the southern Yemen province of Abyan as a political stalemate in the capital causes security to unravel around the country.

Islamic militants seized control of a weapons factory, a strategic mountain and a nearby town in the southern Yemen province of Abyan today as a political stalemate in the capital causes security to unravel around the country.