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Made Popular Nov 19 2009
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In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the message of Anwar al-Awlaki, an eloquent Muslim cleric who has turned the Web into a tool...

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Saber, San'a
While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen’s central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government’s...
made popular Nov 7 2009
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Syed, San'a
Yemen’s civil war spilled into neighbouring Saudi Arabia for the first time yesterday when Shia gunmen shot dead a Saudi security officer in a cross-border...
made popular Nov 5 2009
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Incognito, Boca Raton
There are not many Jews left in Yemen. In fact, there are not many Jews in any Muslim-dominated country. Despite the fact that they pre-date Muslims in the Middle...
made popular Nov 3 2009
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Murad, San'a
A number of displaced Yemenis have been killed during a fight between the army and rebels at a camps run by the UN refugee agency, the agency has said. The UNHCR...
made popular Oct 31 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
A lot is made in the American press about Arab worries (really the worries of illegitimate and authoritarian Arab regimes, no more and no less) of a nuclear Iran. In...
made popular Oct 15 2009
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Syed, San'a
It was sometime after 2 a.m. when gunfire and mortars startled Oqaba Mohammed out of sleep. She thanked God she was alive and quickly gathered her four children,...
made popular Oct 14 2009
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Yaniv, Jerusalem
Arab and Western officials worry that al Qaeda is securing a stronghold in Yemen, where the government’s focus on quelling a rebel insurgency is allowing the...
made popular Sep 29 2009
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Khaldoon, San'a
Entire villages of people in north Yemen are being forced to flee by bands of Shia rebels as a sharp escalation of violence in the region prompts warnings that the...
made popular Sep 21 2009
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Nicholas, Liverpool
Yemen’s military opened an investigation Friday into reports that an airstrike intended for Shiite rebels mistakenly struck and killed displaced Yemeni civilians,...
made popular Sep 19 2009
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Syed, San'a
Over the years, the government of Yemen has embarked on an awareness campaign to end the practice of young marriages, which has been deeply rooted in the rural cultures...
made popular Sep 18 2009
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May 4 2009 by AP0 Comments

Armed protesters in Yemen’s troubled south ambushed a military camp Monday, killing one soldier, an official said, as fighting between the government and disaffected tribesmen intensified in this impoverished country on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

 
 
May 3 2009 by AP0 Comments

The cave tucked in the remote Saudi mountains near the Yemeni border was clearly a way station for Islamic militants, Saudi police say, pointing to the stock of guns and ammunition, nooks for holding hostages and cameras for filming them.

 
 
Apr 27 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Yemeni security official says coast guard forces have freed a hijacked Yemeni oil tanker and arrested 11 pirates.

 
 
Apr 26 2009 by AP0 Comments

In this village in northern Yemen, where a kosher butcher slaughters chickens and the school bus carries young boys in side curls along a dirt track to their Hebrew studies, one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Arab world is fighting for its surviv

 
 
Apr 25 2009 by AP0 Comments

A U.S. Navy spokesman says a German-owned ship has been hijacked in the pirate-infested waters between Somalia and Yemen.

 
 
Apr 23 2009 by AP0 Comments

The two young sons of a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo died when a grenade they were playing with accidentally detonated inside their home, a human rights lawyer and the detainee’s brother said Thursday.

 
 
Apr 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

She was 2 years old when her father promised her in marriage to a man in his 30s. It was a swap, so the father could marry the man’s sister without paying the obligatory bride-price.

 
 
Mar 18 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Yemeni security official says a suicide bomber has hit a convoy carrying the South Korean ambassador, but no one was hurt.

 
 
Mar 16 2009 by AP0 Comments

A Yemeni security official says 12 Islamist suspects have been arrested in connection with an attack that killed four South Korean tourists at a historical site.

 
 
Mar 15 2009 by AP0 Comments

A suicide bomber attacked a group of South Korean tourists in southern Yemen on Sunday, killing four of them, said officials, the latest such attack targeting foreigners visiting this poor Arab country that has both famed historic sites and a strong al-Qa

 
 
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