YEMEN popularity and YEMEN trends

CAIRO (AP) -- Militants have posted online a video in which a man identifying himself as a Saudi diplomat kidnapped by al-Qaida in Yemen appeals to Saudi Arabia's rulers to respond to his captors' demands and save his life....

SANAA - A suicide attacker drove an explosives-packed car into a post held by Shiite Zaidi rebels in north Yemen on Friday, killing 13 people, including three children, a tribal chief and witnesses said. Thirteen people were "killed in a suicide attack using a bomb-laden car that stormed a post held by Huthis (Zaidis) in Al-Jawf" province, the tribal chief said.Among those killed were four .....

A suicide car bomber kills at least 12 people in Yemen's northern town controlled by Shia rebels, officials say.

Sharif's children enjoyed their time in the prison garden. But they did not understand why Sharif could not leave with us. As we pulled away, I wondered: How many more families will we tear apart in Yemen in our misdirected zeal to keep ourselves safe?

Un kamikaze a tué treize personnes vendredi en fonçant à bord d'une voiture...

A SUICIDE attacker has driven his bomb-laden vehicle into a post held by Shi'ite rebels in Yemen, killing 13 people, including three children.

Thirty-eight al Qaeda militants were killed in clashes with Yemen's military, local security officials said Friday.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today said that fighting malnutrition in Yemen should be a top priority in the Middle Eastern country, where more than half the children under the age of five are stunted due to hunger and poor nutrition.

L'armée yéménite a repoussé dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi une attaque d'Al-Qaida dans la région de Wadi Bani Ghard, à l'ouest de Jaar, dans le sud du pays, faisant 35 morts parmi les terroristes, a assuré une source militaire. Une source médicale à Aden a indiqué pour sa part que deux soldats...

shuttah writes "In the growing Al-Qaeda activity in Yemen, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton revealed today that "cyber experts" had recently hacked into web sites being used by an Al-Qaeda affiliate, substituting the group's anti-American rhetoric with information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes. Also this week, a statement from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governm...

The United States government was able to launch a successful cyber attack against an Al Qaida group in Yemen

Monday's suicide bombing in Yemen should be a timely reminder that there is still a long way to go before the world rids itself of the scourge of terrorism.

Friends of Yemen meeting pledges $4bn to avert threat of humanitarian disaster, wih Saudis to pick up bulk of aid bill.

The US State Department has taken to hacking al-Qaeda's websites in Yemen and filling them with American propaganda, Hillary Clinton has boasted.

State Department cyber experts recently hacked into Web sites being used by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen and substituted the group’s anti-American rhetoric with information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday. Read full article >>

Saudi Arabia and western and Gulf states pledged more than $4 billion (€3.18 billion) in aid to Yemen at a Riyadh conference two days after more than 90 Yemeni soldiers were killed in a suicide attack, deepening concerns about al-Qaeda’s presence in the country.

Almost half of Yemen's population does not have enough food to eat and world powers are unwilling to help because of the unstable political situation, seven aid agencies said on Wednesday.

Gulf and western countries hope to prop up President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi’s new government as he battles al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups

A French woman forced a U.S.-bound transatlantic flight to be diverted after claiming she was carrying a "surgically implanted device," US officials said.

Les autorités flamandes ont délivré 308 autorisations d’exportation d’armes l’an dernier. Les exportations autorisées ont atteint un montant de 200,9 mi...lire la suitehistoires liées13:52 Centre tibétain de Huy : la lettre suspecte vient d’Autriche13:49 Les islamistes détruisent le « monument des martyrs » de Tombouctou13:44 La justice se prononcera le 30 mai sur l’extradition d’Assange13:41 2...

Venir en aide au Yémen, c'est l'objectif de cette réunion où une trentaine de pays et d'organisations internationales se retrouvent en Arabie…

Saudi Arabia pledges $3.5bn in aid to neighbouring Yemen, which is facing political instability and a possible humanitarian catastrophe.

In light of increased cyberattacks on the US in the last year, lawmakers are expressing concern over a newly revealed Al Qaeda video calling for sympathizers to focus on Western targets.VIDEO: Al Qaeda Urging 'Electronic Jihad' Somber Yemen Marks National Day After Bombing Kills Nearly 100 SoldiersFull Coverage: Al Qaeda

Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries, according to a new study commissioned by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

"Fifteen people were killed or injured in tribal fighting in Yemen after a male donkey chased an ass and raped it just near the house of its owner." -- Emirates 24/7

When the USS Cole was disabled by an Al-Qaeda attack in 2000, the US Navy faced a serious dilemma: How do you sail a 500-foot warship from Yemen to Mississippi when it's got a 40-foot wide gash in its hull? You hire the world's biggest semi-submersible ship to piggy-back it home, that's how. More »

En un comunicado, el grupo terrorista aseguró que el objetivo de la operación era asesinar al ministro yemení de Defensa, Mohamed Naser Ahmad, quien se encontraba en el lugar de la explosión pero salió ileso

Yemeni soldiers marched in a National Day parade watched by the president from behind a bullet-proof glass shield on Tuesday, one day after a suicide bomber killed more than 90 of their colleagues in an attack on the rehearsal.

Yemen was rocked by its worst terrorist bombing in years Monday when a suicide attacker disguised as a Yemeni soldier blew himself up in the midst of a military parade rehearsal near the presidential palace in Sana, the capital.

Carnage au Yémen. Au moins 96 soldats ont été tués et près de 300 autres ont été blessés dans un attentat suicide, hier à Sanaa. L'explosion a été si puissante qu'elle a provoqué un cratère sur la place Sabiine (photo), où devait se dérouler une parade militaire marquant le 22e anniversaire de...

La guerra contra Al-Qaida en la Península Arábiga (AQPA) llega a Saná. Ansar al-Sharia, filial de la organización que actúa en el sur de Yemen, golpeó en el corazón del país matando a decenas de militares -entre 60 y 90, según distintas fuentes- e hiriendo a más de doscientos, mientras preparaban el desfile del 22 aniversario de la reunificación. Es la carta de presentación del grupo en la capi...

VIDÉO - Cette attaque est la première de cette ampleur à Sanaa, la grande ville du nord du Yémen, depuis l'accession au pouvoir en février dernier du président Hadi, qui s'est engagé à combattre al-Qaida.Articles en rapportLes plus belles photos de l'éclipse en anneau de feuQuébec : une «loi spéciale» polémique contre les grèves étudiantesSerbie : Tomislav Nikolic gardera un cap pro-européenOta...

Près de 100 soldats ont été tués lundi dans un attentat suicide mené à Sanaa par Al-Qaïda, qui a raté de peu le ministre de la Défense et menacé de frapper à nouveau l'armée engagée dans une vaste offensive contre le réseau extrémiste dans le sud du Yémen.Articles en rapportSyrie: vingt-et-un morts, dont 16 dans le pilonnage d´une localité de HamaItalie: un fort séisme frappe le nord-est du pay...

A SUICIDE bomber has slaughtered at least 90 people in a suspected al Qaeda attack in the Yemen

SANAA (Reuters) - A suicide bomber with explosives strapped under his uniform killed more than 90 people at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, an attack which will alarm Washington as its involvement in the front-line state deepens.

Military officials said the bombing, which took place near the presidential palace, is one of the deadliest attacks in the city in years.

A man in soldier's uniform blows himself up at a military parade rehearsal; defense minister, chief of staff are present but unhurt.

Au moins 96 soldats ont été tués et près de 300 autres ont été blessés dans l’attentat suicide commis à Sanaa. ...lire la suite

At least 63 soldiers were killed and dozens of others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade drill in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today.

At least 20 people were killed and more than 60 wounded when a man in soldier's uniform blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal in the Yemeni capital Sanaa today, a police source said.

Washington says focus on securing access for UN monitors, keeping track of ceasefires has distracted from fundamental problems.

TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order (the "order") declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the actions and policies of certain...

Dozens were killed in airstrikes and ground attacks as the Yemeni government intensified efforts to take back land in the southern part of the nation.

Ayman al-Zawahri released a 17-minute audio address aimed at swaying public opinion against Yemen's new president.

Irán, Arabia Saudí, y Yemen, en Asia; Mauritania, Sudán, y las regiones del norte de Nigeria y el sur de Somalia, en África penalizan la homosexualidad con la pena de muerte

Two suspected U.S. drone strikes killed 11 al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen on Saturday, Yemeni military officials said.

It's official: the U.S. drone war over Pakistan, Yemen and beyond really does exist. John Brennan, President Obama's principal counterterrorism adviser, disclosed the government's worst kept secret in a Washington speech last week. So now the Pentagon has to talk about it. Kind of.

Missile strikes in southern Yemen early Thursday have killed eight al-Qaeda-linked insurgents, Reuters is reporting.

The informant was working for the CIA and Saudi intelligence when he was given the bomb, which was supposed to blow up a jetliner on the anniversary of Osama Bin Laden's death.

The man ordered by al-Qaeda's Yemen branch to blow up a US-bound airliner was a double agent who infiltrated the group and volunteered for the attack.

The latest twist in the foiled Yemen bomb plot is straight out of a James Bond film, as the New York Times reports: The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the suicide mission, American and foreign offic...

A recently thwarted airline bomb plot shows that al Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen is "the most operationally active" branch of the worldwide terrorist organization, the White House said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. drone strike in Yemen that killed two members of al Qaeda on Sunday was part of a larger effort to intercept a more advanced "underwear bomb," the chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee said on Tuesday.

A more sophisticated form of underwear bomb has been developed, but the CIA has thwarted an attempt to deploy it to blow up a US based plane. The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009. [it has] a more refined detonation system... ... the device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed thro...

The Obama administration should be applauded for lifting the veil of secrecy even slightly on the drone attacks, but there's still too much we don't know.In recent weeks, a parade of top officials has given sober, underpublicized speeches explaining why President Obama not only considers "targeted killing" drone strikes against terrorists legal but has massively expanded their use, even approvi...

Gunmen have killed a Yemeni soldier and wounded a Frenchman working for the oil company Total, officials say.

Battleship tops the UK and Ireland box office chart for a second consecutive week, fending off Salmon Fishing In The Yemen.

The Frenchman was on his way to the port city of Hudayda when he was kidnapped, a spokeswoman said

Last week's shutdown of Sanaa's airport by security forces seeking to reverse President Abed Rabbo Mansour al-Hadi's dismissal of top brass loyal to the ancien regime exemplified exactly where Yemen is stuck. After three decades under former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, elements within the transitional civilian government are eager to move forward, with ambitious plans to reform th...

ADEN  - At least 46 people were killed in a third day of clashes on Wednesday between Yemeni soldiers backed by tribesmen and Al-Qaeda militants trying to take over a strategic town in the south, local sources said. “Twenty-nine Al-Qaeda militants and three tribesmen were killed” in the battles raging on the outskirts of Loder, the Abyan province town that the extremists have ...

An earthquake of magnitude 8.7 has been detected off the west coast of northern Sumatra, the U.S. Geological Survey says. The epicenter of the…

Qat-chewing is considered a national pastime in Yemen as more than half of the adult male population and one-fourth of the adult female population consume it regularly.

Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt are the headliners for the European premiere of the romantic comedy-drama "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."

Obama administration's use of unmanned drones in Yemen, Pakistan receives too little attention.

Anti-personnel landmines are still causing casualties in various parts of Yemen where fighting is taking place.

SANAA (Reuters) - With a belch of acrid, greasy smoke and a jolt that shakes its moorings, the pump on Yemeni water farmer Jad al-Adhrani's plot of land roars to life, and the race to squeeze the last drop of water out of Yemen's parched earth resumes.

By Joseph LoganSANAA (Reuters) - With a belch of acrid, greasy smoke and a jolt that shakes its moorings, the pump on Yemeni water farmer Jad al-Adhrani's plot of land roars to life, and the race to squeeze the last drop of water out of Yemen's parched earth resumes.Gesturing across his dusty patch of ground in Hamal, on the outskirts of the capital Sanaa, he counts himself lucky to still be dr...

Three Filipino sailors have been kidnapped by tribal militants in central Yemen, according to the country's interior ministry.

History is a great teacher. When a nation gets disunited providence punishes it as a consequence. The famous case of Siddi Moarib dam in Yemen is mentioned in the Holy Quran which was destroyed due to disunity of that nation. Whereas Yemen was like California of today with orchards on both sides of the highway with rest houses on the way and a safe journey free of dacoits. Since the ...

History is a great teacher. When a nation gets disunited providence punishes it as a consequence. The famous case of Siddi Moarib dam in Yemen is mentioned in the Holy Quran which was destroyed due to disunity of that nation. Whereas Yemen was like California of today with orchards on both sides of the highway with rest houses on the way and a safe journey free of dacoits. Since the ...

History is a great teacher. When a nation gets disunited providence punishes it as a consequence. The famous case of Siddi Moarib dam in Yemen is mentioned in the Holy Quran which was destroyed due to disunity of that nation. Whereas Yemen was like California of today with orchards on both sides of the highway with rest houses on the way and a safe journey free of dacoits. Since the ...

US drone attacks have killed at least 20 al-Qaeda-linked fighters including some of their leaders, say tribal sources.

In the new romantic comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, which opened this weekend, Waked has his biggest English-language film role yet

Actress explores romantic entanglements of various natures in three upcoming films. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen opens Friday.

Relax The title is meant to provoke a “Huh? What?” That’s the reaction of fisheries expert Dr Alfred Jones (Ewan McGregor) when PR consultant Harriet Chetwode-Talbot (Emily Blunt) tells him that billionaire Sheikh Muhammad (a wonderful Amr Waked) wants to bring fly-fishing to the desert – damn the cost! The...

The city state has been put on a watch list because of the 'huge amount of cash' that flows through it and because it is unclear how effective the Pope's anti-money laundering legislation had been.

Costars Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor reunited on the red carpet on Monday to celebrate the opening of "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen."

[[371541]] ADEN (Yémen) (AFP) : Au moins 78 soldats ont été tués dimanche dans des affrontements avec des hommes d'Al-Qaïda qui tentaient de prendre le contrôle de positions de l'armée yéménite dans la zone de Kud, située dans la province instable d'Abyane, selon un nouveau bilan établi...

Les travaux préparatoires en vue de la rédaction d’une nouvelle Constitution ont été confiés aux diplomates français à Sanaa, qui seront aidés par un juriste venu de Paris. La prochaine Loi fondamentale yéménite devrait privilégier un système fédéral. «...

WORLDVIEW:A US counterterrorism deal could be in jeopardy after the transfer of power

Ich lese gerade The Black Banners von Ali Soufan. Soufan ist ein ehemaliger FBI Agent der für das FBI auf Al-Kaida angesetzt war, unter anderem die Attacke auf die USS Cole in Yemen untersuchte und über die Jahre mehrere wichtige Verdächtige verhörte. In seinem Buch bin ich über eine Feststellung gestolpert, die ein interessanter Aspekt der Psyche eines Terroristen sein könnte.Ich habe...

The U.N. Security Council has been waiting for weeks to receive its marching orders from the Arab League on how it should respond to the violence in Syria. On Sunday, the Arab League spoke, issuing a statement that reiterated its previous demands that the government of President Bashar al-Assad release all political prisoners, permit peaceful demonstrations, withdraw its heavy weapon...

Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh told his countrymen Sunday that he is headed to the United States for medical treatment, and he has left the country for a first stop in Oman, according to reports. However, Obama administration officials declined to confirm that Saleh had been granted a medical visa to enter the United States. Read full article >>

The Obama administration has decided in principle to allow President Ali Abdullah Saleh to enter the United States for medical treatment, subject to certain assurances, two officials said.

SANAA (AFP) - Loyalists of Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday attacked demonstrators gathered south of the capital calling for the leader's trial, a protest organiser told AFP.Further south, in Abyan province, seven soldiers were killed late Thursday near Zinjibar in an ambush by Al-Qaeda suspects, a military source said, adding three militants were also killed in subsequent fighting....

We're not exactly sure what the plot of this movie is, but it stars Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor, so we're in! Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a comedy-drama that focuses on bringing fly-fishing to Yemen and also stars Kristin Scott Thomas. What makes this even more intriguing is that Slumdog Millionaire's Simon Beaufoy [...]

L'armée a commencé ce samedi à libérer le centre de la capitale, Sanaa, et à lever les barricades qui avaient été érigées par les partisans et les…

DEMONSTRATORS have massed in Sanaa demanding that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh be put on trial over his regime's bloody repression of their opposition movement.

El presidente de Yemen, Ali Abdalá Saleh, se ha convertido en el cuarto dictador árabe depuesto por las revueltas que se iniciaron en Túnez hace apenas un año. Desde el 27 de enero, fecha en que se produjeron en Saná las primeras manifestaciones contra su régimen, Saleh se comprometió en dos ocasiones a abandonar el poder, desdiciéndose acto seguido. A la tercera ha ido la vencida, tras la pres...

The country rejects the Calgary-based company’s application to continue operating in the volatile nation