by WorldTribune Staff, May 19, 2016 Yemen, already on the verge of bankruptcy, was thrown further into economic chaos when it was discovered that $4 billion was “missing” from the nation’s central bank. The money was found missing on May 17 from the bank in the capital of Sanaa, which is under the control of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A group of senior Iranian and Houthi commanders were killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike in Yemen’s capital on Oct. 23. The air strike targeted the home in Sanaa of former Yemeni Gen. Mohsen Ali Ahmar, an ally of exiled President Abbed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, according to media reports in Yemen. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Yemeni forces, bolstered by the Saudi-led coalition, have regained control of one of the world’s most strategic waterways. “The Bab al-Mandab Strait is now under the total control of our troops,” Yemeni Gen. Turki Ahmed told AFP on Oct. 2. The strait was “brought under our control with the help of coalition forces, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Exiled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi arrived in the country’s second city of Aden on Sept. 22 and vowed to swiftly reclaim the capital Sanaa from Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Hadi, who was in exile in Saudi Arabia for six months, arrived in Aden hours before a Saudi-led coalition air strike killed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Saudi-led coalition has taken back the key southern port city of Aden in what they said marked a seismic shift in Yemen’s four-month-old civil war. Losing Aden was seen as a crushing defeat for the Houthi rebels and their Iranian sponsors. “The situation has been completely turned upside down after the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi-led air strikes destroyed the headquarters of former Yemeni President and Houthi ally Ali Abdullah Saleh’s General People’s Congress party on July 5. The air strikes in Sanaa killed and wounded several people, witnesses and a party official said, according to Reuters. The bombing also came as UN special envoy to Yemen […]
Special to WorldTribune.com from CAIRO — The U.S. embassy in Yemen has come under rocket fire from Al Qaida. A rocket said to be fired by Al Qaida’s Ansar Al Sharia landed some 200 meters from the U.S. embassy in Sanaa. Officials said the M-72 light anti-tank rocket exploded on Sept. 27 next to a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Yemen Army are now battling Shi’ite rebels in the capital of the Arab state. Army units have opened fire on the Iran-backed Houthi movement amid its campaign against the Sanaa government. The Shi’ites have fought gun battles with the army in Sanaa as rebels attacked government buildings and military […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Yemen has killed a key commander of Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. Officials said Yemeni security forces shot and killed AQAP commander Shayef Al Shabwani in Sanaa. The officials said Al Shabwani, killed in a shootout on late May 8, was regarded as the architect of AQAP’s abduction campaign […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Al Qaida was believed to have infiltrated Yemen’s military. Officials acknowledged that Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula might have penetrated the mid-level officer corps of the Yemeni military. The officials said this enabled AQIM to target the Yemeni military and Defense Ministry. “This situation can not be ignored,” a […]