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Three Red Cross workers and two Egyptian technicians who were abducted by armed men in Yemen's southern province of Abyan have all been released, Yemeni security officials said Thursday.The three staffers from the International Committee of the Red Cross had been held since Monday morning, when armed men stopped their ICRC-marked vehicle in the vicinity of Jaar, near the southern port city of Aden, the ICRC said in Geneva.The three — two international staff and a locally hired employee — were on their way back from a field trip.The two Egyptians were kidnapped a week earlier by the same tribe in an area north of Jaar, the Yemeni officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.The officials said the kidnappers were demanding the release of one of their relatives who is accused in a murder case dating back more than a year ago.Tribal mediation facilitated the release of the abducted, the officials said, without elaborating.Cedric ...
The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their hard-line ideology. Th...
A Yemeni official says a military plane on a training exercise has crashed into a neighborhood in the country's capital.The military official says the plane went dow...
The International Committee of the Red Cross says three of its workers who had been kidnapped by armed men in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan have been release...
The International Committee of the Red Cross says three of its workers have been kidnapped in the southern Yemeni province of Abyan.Dibeh Fakhr, a spokeswoman for th...
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Officials: Death toll in Yemen's suicide bombing at parade rehearsal in Sanaa has risen to 38.
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Two U.S. drone strikes Wednesday killed at least four suspected al-Qaida militants and destroyed the house of another in a mountainous area south of the capital, San...
The Yemeni president apologized to the United States Thursday over the attack on the U.S. Embassy in the capital of Sanaa, after protesters flooded the perimeter and...
The president of Yemen is warning that the al-Qaida branch in the country is expanding and is using assassinations and abductions of foreigners as a way to challenge...
Medical officials say Yemeni government forces have fired mortars at a central district of the capital Sanaa where tens of thousands of opposition supporters had gat...
A Yemeni security official and witnesses say a U.S. drone strike killed at least four suspected al-Qaida militants in mountainous area south of the capital, Sanaa.Th...
A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four Al Qaeda militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to security officials.The of...
Yemeni security officials say a suspected US drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants in the country's south.The officials say the attack took place around dawn S...
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records "unconst...
Associated Press President Gary Pruitt said Sunday the Justice Department sent a strong – and negative -- message to future sources that the government would go afte...
A top White House adviser staked out a defiant defense Sunday on a series of scandals that have hit the Obama administration, going so far as to say it was an "irrel...
A masked gunman assassinated a Yemeni security official at the U.S. Embassy in a drive-by shooting in the capital Sanaa on Thursday, officials said.The Yemeni offici...
"We did not publish anything until we were assured by high-ranking officials with direct knowledge of the situation, in more than one part of the government, that th...