Yemen
January 21, 2013
A U.S. drone strike on a car in Maarib, east of Yemen's capital Sanaa, on Monday killed two suspected al-Qaeda militants.
The third Arab Economic and Social Development Summit kicks off in Riyadh on Monday aiming to boost economic integration and tackle people’s aspirations amid the Arab world’s turbulent political changes.
Yemen's parliament approved the budget for the 2013 fiscal year worth $13 billion
January 20, 2013
Gunmen in southeast Yemen have blown up an oil pipeline that transports some 8,000 barrels per day to export terminals on the Gulf of Aden, suspending operations, a local official said on Saturday.
The number of CIA targeted assassinations using drones in Yemen has risen sharply in 2012.
January 13, 2013
Thousands of separatist demonstrators in southern Yemen on Sunday rallied in Aden to mark the anniversary of the outbreak of civil war in South Yemen in 1986.
January 10, 2013
Employees at the Central Bank of Yemen initiated a partial strike this week, calling for a restructuring of their wage package
January 7, 2013
Yemen's Supreme Committee on Crude Oil Marketing sealed Sunday the crude oil sales of March 2013, estimated to be 4.1 million barrels.
After a push by the Yemeni president to put all detained suspected terrorists on trial, five are sentenced to up to ten years in prison.
January 6, 2013
Saudi Arabia has denied reports that its air force used fighter jets to bomb targets in Yemen.
January 4, 2013
A new report reveals that Saudi Arabia has used its fighter jets to carry out a number of attacks against Yemen on behalf of the United States.
January 3, 2013
Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh is to travel to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment, diplomatic sources said Thursday, 3 January, as his opponents called for him to be kept out of politics and in the sick bay ahead of stalled national talks.
December 30, 2012
In the latest in a series of strikes on the troubled Arab state, a U.S. drone kills three suspected al-Qaeda members.
December 24, 2012
Yemen's government approved the state's general budget for 2013.
Following promises that he would get rid of ex-president, Ali Abdullah Saleh's, cronies in the military, the new Yemeni president is reportedly considering reinstating Saleh's son.