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Yemen’s defense minister visits Zinjibar, Jaar – freed from al Qaida-linked militants’ control

Soldiers celebrated Wednesday and civilians appeared to eager welcome the return of government control a day after the Yemeni military and its tribal forces allies pushed al Qaida-linked militants out of the provincial capital of Zinjibar, which the militants had held for more than a year. | 06/13/12 19:30:53 By - By Adam Baron

Ansar al Shariah driven from Zinjibar in major blow to al Qaida affiliate in Yemen

Yemeni government forces, backed by local fighters, pushed al Qaida-linked militants from two of their primary strongholds in the country’s south Tuesday, marking the government’s most significant victory since Islamist militants seized control of Abyan province more than a year ago. | 06/12/12 18:55:47 By - By Adam Baron

After bombing, Yemen’s Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi watches Unity Day ceremony from behind barrier

Yemen’s top officials attended a somber ceremony commemorating the country’s 1990 unification Tuesday, a day after a suicide attack killed nearly 100 soldiers in one of the bloodiest days in the nation’s history. | 05/22/12 19:36:19 By - By Adam Baron

Al Qaida-linked group claims massive Yemen bombing; dead were rehearsing for Unity Day parade

A rehearsal for a military parade to mark Yemen’s national day turned into a scene of bloody carnage Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the presidential palace, killing nearly 100 soldiers and wounding scores more in one of the deadliest attacks in this conflict-wracked nation’s recent history. | 05/21/12 18:45:05 By - By Adam Baron

Reforms come slowly in post-Saleh Yemen

Seven weeks after the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule, what is the fate of the movement that spurred the end to his three decades in power? | 04/15/12 15:29:00 By - Adam Baron

Flights grounded at Yemen airport

Flights from Sanaa International Airport were grounded Saturday, in the wake of fears that forces loyal to recently sacked air force head, General Mohamed Saleh al-Ahmar, half-brother of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, would target civilian planes in retaliation for his replacement. | 04/07/12 16:33:00 By - Adam Baron

With president gone, Yemen seeks to remake military

Nearly a month after a referendum-like election formally ended former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three decades in power, attention is focusing on how to remake the nation's military, which was the backbone of the former president's rule. | 03/16/12 18:07:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's weakened military suffers setback against Islamist militants

As the death toll from fighting between Yemeni troops and al Qaida-linked militants in southern Abyan province crossed 100, the new Yemeni president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, vowed Monday to redouble efforts to combat the growing insurgency. | 03/05/12 17:20:00 By - Adam Baron

After year of protests, Yemen election is cause for celebration

For much of the past year, Yemen's capital has felt like a city on the verge of exploding: dueling Friday protests between supporters and opponents of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, defections by military units and then pitched battles last year between loyalists and those defectors that swept across this ancient city. | 02/21/12 17:46:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemenis fear there'll be no change with new president

When voting ends here Tuesday in early presidential elections, there's no doubt that something historic will have taken place: Ali Abdullah Saleh, who's ruled here for 33 years, no longer will be president, becoming the fourth veteran leader toppled over the course of the Arab Spring. | 02/20/12 18:28:00 By - Adam Baron

Southern Yemen's election boycott hints at trouble ahead

Yemenis will head to the polls Tuesday in a one-candidate election that's expected to make Vice President Abdo Rabbu Mansour Hadi the first president from southern Yemen since the country's two halves were unified in 1990. | 02/18/12 16:12:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's President Saleh departs to US for medical treatment

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left Yemen Sunday en route to United States for medical treatment. Saleh is expected to stop in Oman prior to arriving in New York by Wednesday. | 01/22/12 15:22:00 By - Adam Baron

A month out, expectations low for Yemen's presidential vote

After months of violent demonstrations, Yemen is just a few weeks away from a presidential election that will end, or at least is supposed to end, Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year hold on power. | 01/20/12 17:23:00 By - Adam Baron

New campaign for Yemen's activists: End khat use

For nearly a year, tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken to the streets to call for an end to the 33-year-old rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. | 01/12/12 14:40:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen forms unity government, but Saleh's fate still unclear

Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbu Mansour Hadi formed a new, 35-member unity government, state media reported Wednesday, a key step in a Western-backed agreement to secure President Ali Abdullah Saleh's exit from power while putting an end to months of demonstrations and unrest. | 12/07/11 16:41:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's first post-Saleh vote won't be much of a contest

Yemen's new prime minister said Sunday that both the ruling party and the country's largest opposition coalition would nominate the country's current vice president to be their candidate in the upcoming election to pick a successor to President Ali Abdullah Saleh. | 11/27/11 15:52:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen presidential vote set for Feb. 21; Saleh returns home

Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi on Saturday set Feb. 21 as the date that Yemenis will go to the polls to select at new president to replace Ali Abdullah Saleh, who agreed last week to step down after 10 months of protests against his rule. | 11/26/11 16:39:00 By - Adam Baron

A defiant Saleh agrees to step down as Yemen's president

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday transferred power to his deputy and agreed to leave office within 90 days, bringing to a climax 10 months of often bloody political wrangling that has left his impoverished nation economically crippled and on the verge of anarchy. | 11/23/11 17:05:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's Saleh agrees to step down; elections set in 90 days

Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday signed an agreement to surrender power within 30 days, the culmination of more than nine months of effort to force him to step down. | 11/23/11 07:46:59 By - Adam Baron

Yemeni Nobel winner: Democracy is best antidote to extremism

At first glance, Tawakkol Karman seems an improbable activist. Once she opens her mouth, however, doubts about this young mother of three are quickly silenced. Acerbically witty in private and effortlessly charismatic in front of an audience, Karman has become the unlikely face of anti-government demonstrations that have swept deeply conservative Yemen since January. | 10/10/11 15:02:00 By - Adam Baron

Nobel Peace Prize goes to 3 women activists, including Liberia's Sirleaf

Friday's award of the Nobel Peace Prize to three women who'd undertaken nonviolent campaigns for peace and women's rights in war zones sent a powerful message to the developing world that women must not be left behind by movements that are pushing for democratic reforms. | 10/07/11 06:52:18 By - Hannah Allam, Shashank Bengali and Adam Baron

Awlaki's death deprives al Qaida of key recruiting voice

The death of U.S.-born Muslim preacher Anwar al Awlaki in a barrage of missiles fired by U.S. drones over Yemen on Friday dealt a sharp blow to Al Qaida's recruiting efforts, but it's likely to do little to crimp the group's ability to carry out attacks. | 09/30/11 07:29:51 By - Adam Baron, Jonathan S. Landay and Lesley Clark

Yemen's President Saleh addresses nation for first time since return

President Ali Abdullah Saleh addressed the Yemeni people Sunday for the first time since returning to the increasingly volatile nation, calling for direct elections but not making any direct pledge to step down. | 09/25/11 20:26:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's Saleh shows no signs of stepping down in TV address

President returns to Yemen, unsettling an already tense nation

President Ali Abdullah Saleh unexpectedly returned to the capital Friday morning after more than three months of medical treatment and convalescence in Saudi Arabia in a move that threatened an escalation of violence in this increasingly volatile city. | 09/23/11 08:56:23 By - Adam Baron

Death toll tops 50 as clashes continue in Yemen

The Yemeni capital was rocked by violence Monday for a second straight day as government forces clashed with demonstrators and defected soldiers, leaving at least 25 people dead. | 09/19/11 16:32:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemeni troops open fire on demonstrators, killing dozens

At least 24 demonstrators were killed in Sanaa on Sunday, as gunmen opened fire on demonstrators calling for the ouster of longtime president Ali Abdullah Saleh. The attacks, which came amidst a tense, protracted stalemate in the nation's ongoing political crisis, made Sunday Sanaa's bloodiest day in months. | 09/18/11 17:00:00 By - Adam Baron

Healthier-looking Saleh tells Yemen he'll be back soon

Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, looking healthier than at any time since he was wounded in an apparent assassination attempt June 3, lashed out at his opponents in a prerecorded speech aired on government TV here Tuesday that reignited the debate over his rule. | 08/16/11 18:04:00 By - Adam Baron

Violence in Yemen sends thousands to lives underground

The Yemeni capital remained tense Sunday as a second day of clashes between government forces and armed supporters of powerful tribal leader Sheikh Sadiq al Ahmar threatened to reignite large scale fighting in the city. Twenty miles to the north, residents of Ahrab have been blasted by artillery for months now, sending many fleeing into caves they've dug in soft volcanic rock. | 08/07/11 13:56:00 By - Adam Baron

Latest word from Yemen's ill president doesn't allay tensions

When Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia on June 5 after suffering severe injuries in a bomb attack on his compound, many in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation breathed a sigh of relief. | 08/02/11 16:17:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's crisis worsens as president stays away

Yemenis took to the streets Friday in dueling pro- and anti-government demonstrations, spurred by days of reports that embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh could return from medical treatment in Saudi Arabia next week. | 07/15/11 16:23:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's president on TV looks worn from bombing ordeal

For the first time since he was gravely wounded by an explosion in the presidential compound's mosque, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared on television here Thursday, recognizable but obviously still recovering from major injuries. | 07/07/11 17:58:00 By - Adam Baron

Already poor, Yemen taking an economic beating from unrest

Even before demonstrators began demanding the resignation of President Ali Abdullah Saleh five months ago, Yemen's future looked bleak. A third of its people couldn't be certain when they'd next eat. | 06/14/11 17:33:00 By - Adam Baron

Wounded, Yemen's Saleh finds his support undamaged

One week after an explosion seriously wounded Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, forcing him to travel to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, this country's political course has taken a turn, but not in the direction many had expected. | 06/10/11 17:28:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemenis jubilant at departure of President Saleh, but what's next?

Jubilant crowds on Sunday celebrated the news that embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh had arrived in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment following a Friday attack on his presidential compound. | 06/05/11 16:05:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen tense amid reports that Saleh has left the country

Clashes continued in this Yemeni capital Saturday amid contradictory reports that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh may be traveling to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, plunging the country deeper into crisis as uncertainties grew about who was in charge, where Saleh was, and what kind of reaction to expect from protesters who've waged a four-month uprising to unseat him. | 06/04/11 17:51:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's Saleh wounded in attack on presidential compound

Once one of America's most-valued allies in the war on terror but now considered a liability by the Obama administration, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded Friday in the first violence to strike the presidential compound here since demonstrators began demanding Saleh's resignation four months ago. | 06/03/11 19:03:00 By - Adam Baron

Yemen's Saleh losing grip as fighting rages

After four months of widespread anti-government demonstrations, numerous defections of high-ranking officials and mounting pressure from powerful tribes, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh appears to be losing his increasingly fragile grip on the southern Arabian nation. Many argue that support for Saleh is waning even in army divisions that remain ostensibly under his command. | 05/31/11 18:39:00 By - Adam Baron

Fighting subsides in Yemeni capital, but not demands for change

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets Friday to reiterate their demand that President Ali Abdullah Saleh resign, but the fierce fighting that had claimed as many as 100 lives this week in the capital had largely subsided. Witnesses reported airstrikes by government fighter planes. | 05/27/11 19:11:00 By - Adam Baron

Chaos swirls in Yemen's capital as government buildings burn

Yemen's capital city sank toward anarchy Tuesday as rival armies fought pitched battles in a neighborhood of middle-class homes and government offices in the worst violence to sweep Sanaa since anti-government protests began nearly four months ago. What touched off the fighting remained unclear. | 05/24/11 18:30:00 By - Adam Baron

U.S., other diplomats trapped in embassy as Yemen crisis worsens

Yemen's political crisis took a dramatic turn Sunday when armed loyalists to the embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh surrounded an embassy, trapping the American and other ambassadors inside for hours until they apparently were flown out by Yemeni military helicopter. | 05/22/11 17:03:00 By - Adam Baron and Hannah Allam

With Saleh digging in, Yemen protests take on permanent look

When demonstrations began in February aimed at toppling long-ruling President Ali Abdullah Saleh, they were of a humble size, filling only the area immediately outside the entrance to Sanaa University, an area now known as Change Square. | 05/12/11 19:00:00 By - Adam Baron

Bin Laden's death isn't likely to mark end of al Qaida

Political analysts who closely monitor Islamist militant groups said Monday that the circumstances of Osama bin Laden's death — far from the battlefield in a million-dollar mansion — support what they've claimed for years: that while bin Laden remained the spiritual figurehead for al Qaida, he was far removed from its daily operations. | 05/02/11 18:30:00 By - Hannah Allam and Adam Baron

In Yemen's 'Change Square,' demonstrators remain defiant

Protesters in Yemen remained committed Sunday to continuing demonstrations despite President Ali Abdullah Saleh's seeming acceptance of a Gulf-mediated proposal that would lead to his exit soon. | 04/24/11 17:20:13 By - Adam Baron

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