What next for Yemen -- implosion or a tribal bargain?
The rocket that hit Yemen's presidential compound Friday and injured President Ali Abdullah Saleh achieved what months of mediation had not -- loosening Saleh's viselike grip on the presidency after 33...
View ArticleWitnesses: Tribal fighters take over major city in Yemen
Tribal fighters took control of a top Yemeni city on Tuesday, a setback for an embattled government whose wounded president is hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.
View ArticleU.S. resumes airstrikes in Yemen; government forces battle militants
The United States and Yemen are taking on Islamic militants on the land and from the air amid fears that al Qaeda is exploiting the political chaos and leadership vacuum engulfing the unstable and...
View ArticleAnother day of clashes, angry protests in Yemen
Deadly fighting between Yemeni government forces and al Qaeda erupted in a restive southern province on Saturday.
View ArticleFighting erupts in southern Yemeni towns
Fighting flared in Yemen's volatile southern region Thursday, as security forces battled armed Islamic militants in one town and reports surfaced of arrests and deaths in two other cities.
View ArticleInvestigators: More than one bomb in Yemen attack
Investigators probing the June 3 attack on the mosque in Yemen's presidential palace say more than one bomb was used but only one went off, a Western official in the capital of Sanaa told CNN.
View ArticleYemen's president should stay in Saudi Arabia for a while, doctors say
The health of Yemen's wounded president is improving, but doctors are recommending that he stay in Saudi Arabia for a "longer time" to recover, an adviser said Friday.
View ArticleReport: Two confess to helping 63 inmates escape in Yemen
Two prisoners have confessed to digging a tunnel that led to the escape of 63 inmates last week, Yemen's state-run SABA news agency reported Sunday.
View ArticleExclusive: Yemen's opposition general
CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson obtained an exclusive interview with the leading opposition figure in Yemen, General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmer. He defected from the government in...
View ArticleYemeni president makes first TV appearance since attack
Yemen's badly burned president, appearing on television in his homeland on Thursday for the first time since he was injured in an attack last month, said he's on the mend, welcomed talks with...
View ArticleYemen's president meets with top U.S. anti-terrorism official
Yemen's embattled president, still recovering from a violent attack last month, met with a top U.S. counterterrorism official in Saudi Arabia Sunday.
View Article1 dead, 150 hurt after Yemeni president's backers attack protesters
Supporters of Yemen's embattled president converged overnight Monday on a central square in Hodeidah and killed an anti-government protester and injured more than 150 others, according to witnesses and...
View ArticleFighting erupts in embattled southern Yemen
Fighting flared in Yemen's volatile south Saturday, as security forces -- backed by armed tribesmen -- battled Islamic militants in the region, eyewitnesses said.
View ArticleYemeni opposition party: assassination attempt on leader
The leader of Yemen's largest opposition party escaped an assassination attempt on Wednesday, the Islah party said.
View ArticleBriton killed in Yemen car bombing
A British citizen who worked for a Yemeni company has been killed by a car bomb in the volatile country, the British Foreign Office and a Yemeni senior security official said Wednesday.
View ArticleMedics: Child slain during Yemen protest
A child was killed and six other people were wounded on Thursday when security forces shot at protesters in Yemeni city of Taiz, a medical team said.
View ArticleSources: 16 dead in Yemen violence
At least 16 people died when Yemeni government forces clashed with tribes outside the capital and militants in a restive southern province, sources said.
View ArticleOfficial: Pro-government tribesmen killed in Yemen airstrikes
Recent Yemeni airstrikes targeting Islamic militants in the south accidentally killed at least 11 pro-government tribesmen, a senior Yemeni military official told CNN Sunday.
View ArticleYemen opposition welcomes U.N. call for power transfer
Yemen's top opposition movement welcomed the U.N. Security Council's call for a transfer of power, an initiative that could end the political instability in the poverty-ridden Arab nation.
View ArticleYemen's president confers with party officials amid pressure to depart
Yemen's embattled president has been huddling with members of his ruling party in neighboring Saudi Arabia as world and regional powers press for an end to the political crisis in his country and a...
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