Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh, commander of the Southwestern Military Region, met Tuesday in his office with the chief of US security and defense assistance team and the accompanied delegation. The meeting discussed progress achieved in Army and Interior Ministry reorganization. Mohsen praised the great efforts by US in supporting and backing Yemeni army against terrorism. The delegation spoke highly ...
The Turkish military attaché said his country intends to open military attaché office in Yemen next week, in order to improve military cooperation between Sana'a and Ankara, the state-run Saba reported. At his meeting with the Yemeni Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Ahmed Ali al-Ashwal on Sunday, Colonel Rifki said the Turkish government wants to widen and promote military cooperation with Y ...
A ransom video widely publicized over the weekend could help determine whether the Finnish couple and their Austrian companion were sent to different locations soon after they were abducted, according to researcher Susanne Dahlgren. The video, in which an Austrian man claims his kidnappers will kill him unless unidentified ransom demands are met, was reportedly released on the video sharing site Y ...
Army forces shelled a location in Bayda's Khabza area on Saturday, resulting in four young men injured while working on artesian drill, local residents said. "The army troops stationed on al-Tha'alib Mountain shelled the area, but youths were injured while working at artesian well, three with serious wounds," residents added. The residents expressed dissatisfaction with army forces' targ ...
(Saba) - Yemen and donors Sunday held their 1st consultative meeting in Sana'a to follow up the implementation of the outcome of the Riyadh donors meeting and the 4th meeting of Friends of Yemen in New York. In the presence of representatives of regional and international donor countries and organizations, Minister of Planning the International Cooperation Mohammed al-Sa'adi said the meeting aimed ...
Militant Houthi groups kidnapped 17 citizens on Friday 15th February under the pretext that they stole khat from a farm in Razeh district. In a press statement, a Houthi committee tasked by the group leader with probing the case said that there was no clear evidence against the detainees proving their guilty. Local sources stated that the militants of Houthi then fabricated other charges against t ...
Deputy Head of the EU delegation to Yemen confirmed on Saturday readiness of the EU countries to support Yemeni Special Security Forces, so as to serve the security and stability. This came during a meeting gathered here Commander of the Special Security Forces - member of the Military Affairs Committee to achieve security and stability- Maj. Gen. Fadl al-Qawsi and Deputy Head of the EU delegation ...
BBC: GPC's members armed groups to thwart celebration in Aden Security sources stated on Friday that police managed to foil attempts, by gunmen from the separatist Southern Movement (SM), to attack pro-unity crowds and to deny them access to parade square in Aden. Aden's local authorities blamed the mess to SM separatist armed men loyal to Ali Salem al-Baidh accused of receiving support from Iran ...
Yemen and Libya have agreed to form a joint committee to develop procedures for the exchange of labour between the two countries, officials said. The agreement came during an early February meeting between Yemeni Minister of Expatriate Affairs Mujahid al-Qahali and Ramadan Bazama, chargé d'affaires at the Libyan embassy in Sanaa, who discussed ways to develop and strengthen relations betwee ...
Head of Middle East and North Africa Department at the British Foreign Office Sarah Brice has confirmed the importance of the next meeting of Friends of Yemen Group in supporting the transitional phase. This came during the meeting held Thursday at the British Foreign Office in London to discuss the arrangements and preparations for convening of Friends of Yemen meeting in London on March 7, in pr ...
