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Made Popular Nov 7 2009
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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 reach, another crisis — one that affects Yemen’s entire population — has the potential to...

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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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veena, delhi
Girl child Fawziya Abdullah Yuossuf was married to a 24 year old farmer working in Saudi Arabia when she was just 11. Ruled by tribal traditions child marriages are...
made popular Sep 14 2009
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Fighting between tribes and government troops. Tens of thousands more made refugee since last month. Thousands of civilians stuck in between. Over 200,000 refugees...
made popular Sep 14 2009
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Sultan, Riyadh
Violent clashes have broken out between Shia rebels and government forces in northern Yemen, with both sides accusing the other of breaking a truce. A Yemeni military...
made popular Sep 7 2009
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Imad, San'a
Yemeni Shi’ite rebels fighting in the north of the troubled Arabian Peninsula country warned of a “long war” on Wednesday after the government...
made popular Sep 2 2009
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Shehzaan, Riyadh
Saudi Arabia is concerned by the Shiite rebellion taking place just over the border in Yemen, prompting security officials from both countries to consult on the sudden...
made popular Aug 19 2009
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Pankaj, Shimla
This is criminal justice, Yemen style. A man accused of raping and murdering an 11-year-old boy is paraded through his home town before being shot dead by an...
made popular Jul 7 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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