Sectarian split deepens across Middle East in wake of executions

Amnesty says warplanes have left ‘bloody trail of civilian death’.

Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit a residential area in a Red Sea town in Yemen, killing at least 120 people in the deadliest strike against civilians since the March offensive began.

Living in Yemen is like being trapped in a complex, faulty, Rubik’s Cube. Every day you face puzzles that may have no right answers. A move in any direction can lead to blindly exploding shells, airstrikes or stray bullets.

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

The Department of Foreign Affairs said it is maintaining contact with an Irish citizen about a possible evacuation from Yemen.

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

Suicide bombers in the Yemeni capital Sanaa blew themselves up during Friday prayers at two mosques used by supporters of Shi’ite rebels, killing 142 people and wounding 260 in the country’s deadliest militant attack in years.

Muslim clerics widely denounced Islamist militants in Syria over the burning to death of a Jordanian pilot, saying such a form of killing was considered an abomination under Islam, no matter the justification.

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.

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

An air strike killed al Qaida’s second in command in Yemen along with six others travelling with him in a car, US and Yemeni officials said.

A gunman opened fire on worshippers marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in southern Yemen, killing nine.

The army chief leading the fight against al Qaida militants in southern Yemen has been killed by a suicide bomber, security officials said today.

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.

At least 2,000 displaced Yemenis have returned home to a restive area in the country’s south that has been under the control of al-Qaida-linked militants for more than seven months.

Islamic militants attacked a hotel serving alcohol in a Yemeni city, killing two people and wounding 20 before torching the building.

Yemen’s defence minister escaped unscathed today after a suicide attacker driving an explosives-laden car blew himself up next to his convoy, security officials and witnesses said.

NATO warplanes blitzed a string of military targets in Tripoli yesterday, an official said, as embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi blamed a “colonial plot” for the conflict engulfing his country.

A senior leader of Yemen’s al-Qaida branch has been killed in fighting in the nearly lawless south of the country, the Defence Ministry said.

Sanaa: A fire on an oil tanker caused by a rocket-propelled grenade attack by pirates off southern Yemen damaged the ship’s engine room, according to the UK P&I Club, one of the vessel’s insurers.

LONG confined as a footnote in Irish history, the role of the 49,400 Irish soldiers who fought and died in the First World War has finally been restored to the spotlight.

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

The head of a grouping of Gulf Arab nations has presented a new proposal to Yemen's embattled president to resolve the country's crisis, calling on him to hand over power to a successor of his choice and leave within a month, according to a senior government official.

Yemenis have turned out in massive crowds across the country to demand their embattled president immediately step down, while his loyalists are rallying in his support in the capital Sanaa.

Yemen’s political opposition presented the most detailed outline of how it hopes to see power change hands after nearly two months of protests that have weakened the long-time president but failed to drive him from office.

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Yemen hurled stones at riot police backed by tanks in the southern province of Aden as rival rallies were held in the capital today.

PASSPORTS and naval service records are being checked as part of an inquiry into claims that members of the force have been moonlighting as anti-piracy guards on ships passing off the Horn of Africa.

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.

Facing growing calls for his resignation, Yemen’s long-time ruler told tens of thousands of supporters today that he’s ready to step down but only if he can leave the country in “safe hands,” while anti-government protesters massed for a rival rally.

The Yemeni president’s own tribe has called on him to step down after a deadly crackdown on protesters, robbing the embattled US-backed leader of vital support in a society dominated by blood ties.

Police have stormed a protest camp in southern Yemen where thousands are calling for the ousting of the country’s long-time president, witnesses and a security official said today.

Yemeni security forces fired live bullets and tear gas on two pro-democracy demonstrations today, killing two people – including a 15-year-old student – as the government clamps down on a growing protest movement, witnesses said.

Yemeni security forces stormed a square early today where thousands of pro-democracy protesters have been camped out for the past month, firing tear gas and live ammunition during a pre-dawn raid that killed at least one person, doctors and witnesses said.

Yemen's embattled president has failed to pacify protesters with plans to draw up a new constitution.

The Yemeni government escalated its efforts to stop mass protests calling for the president’s ousting, with soldiers firing rubber bullets and tear gas at students camped at a university in the capital in a raid that left at least 98 people wounded, officials said.

Several members of the Yemeni president’s ruling Congress party have resigned as tens of thousands of people again took to the streets to demand his removal.

Protests demanding economic reforms by Oman’s ruler have reached a key oil region in Oman, Government officials said.

Yemen’s embattled president suffered back-to-back blows: hundreds of thousands called for his ousting in the largest anti-government rallies yet and two powerful chiefs from his own tribe abandoned him.

Anti-government protests flared again in Yemen today with thousands of marchers demonstrating across the country.

Yemen’s embattled leader today rejected demands to step down, saying widespread demonstrations against his regime were unacceptable.

Yemeni riot police shot dead a protester and injured five others when they opened fire on a march of thousands of demonstrators in the capital Sanaa today.