The death toll from a sophisticated attack by Islamic extremists against soldiers in Yemen jumped to 184 Tuesday, three Yemeni officials told CNN.
Yemen's army has suffered its most humiliating defeat yet at the hands of Islamic extremists who launched a sophisticated attack on an army base in the south on Sunday, resulting in the deaths of 90 soldiers.
Yemen's new president on Saturday promised to continue the fight against al Qaeda, calling it "a religious and national duty" for citizens of his restive nation.
Yemen will swear in its new president Saturday, cementing a power transfer deal reached in November to end months of protests and violence over outgoing leader Ali Abdullah Saleh's longtime rule.
Yemen holds a presidential election Tuesday with only one candidate on the ballot to replace longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Seven aid workers who were kidnapped in Yemen have been released, the United Nations said in a statement Thursday.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh arrived in the United States on Saturday, marking the latest phase in a series of political moves surrounding his transition from power in violence-wracked Yemen.
Yemen's embattled president was on his way to the United States for medical treatment Monday, officials said.
Embattled Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was en route to the United States for medical treatment Sunday, officials said.
Yemen's parliament approved a controversial law Saturday that ensures President Ali Abdullah Saleh complete immunity from prosecution.
Yemeni officials on Tuesday downplayed rumors that next month's presidential elections in Yemen would be delayed, the same day U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton faulted the Yemeni president for failing to fulfill his commitment to leave the country.
Armed tribesmen snatched a Norwegian U.N. official from the streets of Yemen's capital Sunday, demanding the release of a jailed tribal leader, Norwegian and Yemeni officials said.
The Yemeni cabinet has approved the draft of a law that will give President Ali Abdullah Saleh and his aides immunity from prosecution.
Top loyalists to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh called the Arab nation's vice president a traitor and threatened war, aides to the vice president said Saturday.
Yemen's president became the fourth Arab leader forced from power this year when he signed a deal Wednesday aimed at ending his country's months-long political crisis.
A cease fire announced Tuesday in Yemen's capital city of Sanaa did not appear to be holding, but a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said it nevertheless constituted a "good step" towards ending violence in the country.
At least nine people were killed and 23 wounded during clashes between Yemen security forces and rival fighters on Saturday, medical officials said.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh addressed his violently divided country. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports on the return of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to Yemen.
Yemen's embattled president returns to his country after a long absence. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has returned home after undergoing treatment in Saudi Arabia, a government spokesman said Friday.
CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports on the latest violence in Yemen while Yemen's VP calls for a cease-fire.
Civilians are in hiding in the Yemeni capital as protesters and government forces struggle for control on the streets of Sanaa.
Laura Kasinof reports on security forces in Yemen opening fire on anti-government protesters in Yemen's capital, Sanaa.
A violent crackdown by Yemeni authorities has left dozens dead at protests, witnesses and medical officials said Monday.
Officials from the United Nations and the Gulf Cooperation Council were in Sanaa, Yemen, on Monday, hoping to help organize a peaceful transfer of power as witnesses reported violence in the streets.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans to return to Yemen following the investigation into his attempted assassination, a government spokesman said.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh plans to return to Yemen following the investigation into his attempted assassination, a government spokesman said.
Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Mujawar was back in Sanaa Tuesday for the first time since he was seriously injured in the presidential palace bombing last June, according to sources at the airport in the capital.
Yemen's opposition groups announced the formation of the National Revolution Council Wednesday, the first significant move toward forming a new government in Yemen.
Dozens of civilians may have been killed by Yemeni forces since May while fighting an armed Islamist group in Abyan province, the activist group Human Rights Watch said in a report released Saturday. But a spokesman for Yemen's ruling party disputed the findings.
Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared on TV for the first time since his attack. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
Two prisoners have confessed to digging a tunnel that led to the escape of 63 inmates last week, Yemen's state-run SABA news agency reported Sunday.
CNN's Brian Todd reports on the escape of dozens of suspected al Qaeda militants from a Yemeni prison.
Two prisoners have confessed to digging a tunnel that led to the escape of 63 inmates last week, Yemen's state-run SABA news agency reported Sunday.
The health of Yemen's wounded president is improving, but doctors are recommending that he stay in Saudi Arabia for a "longer time" to recover, an adviser said Friday.
Dozens of suspected al Qaeda militants escaped Wednesday from a jail in the Yemeni city of Mukalla, a senior security official said.
Tribal fighters took control of a top Yemeni city on Tuesday, a setback for an embattled government whose wounded president is hospitalized in Saudi Arabia.
Yemeni vice president assumes President Saleh's duties. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
The fiercest clashes since anti-government demonstrations began in Taiz four months ago erupted overnight Monday between anti-government gunmen and members of government security forces, witnesses said.
Effective Saturday night, Yemeni Vice President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi took over Ali Abdullah Saleh's responsibilities as president, Yemeni government spokesman Abdu Ganadi told CNN.
CNN's Rosemary Church talks to Mohammed Jamjoom about new violence that's broken out in Yemen's capital.
Hours after surviving the shelling of a mosque at his presidential palace that killed a Muslim preacher and several guards, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday insisted he is in good health and blamed "gangsters" for the attack.
Yemen's opposition has signed a regionally brokered deal that would result in the departure of controversial President Ali Abdullah Saleh and end the country's grinding political crisis, opposition officials told CNN.
Yemen's political leadership has resolved the hurdles for a regionally-brokered deal that would lead to the departure of the president, a senior Yemeni official told CNN.
The head of the Gulf Cooperation Council has left Yemen without securing an agreement by which President Ali Abdullah Saleh would hand over power to the opposition, officials said Wednesday.
The head of the Gulf Cooperation Council abruptly left a meeting Saturday with Yemen's president, departing Sanaa without comment and leaving a hard-fought political deal aimed at ending months of turmoil on the verge of collapse, said a senior Yemeni ruling party official.
Yemen's opposition issued a statement Thursday warning that "massacres" against street protesters could derail a deal brokered by the Gulf Cooperation Council and agreed-to by President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end the demonstrations that have wracked the country since mid-February.
An opposition leader says demonstrators will not leave the streets until Yemen's president leaves office.
Two protesters were killed Monday in Yemen as government forces battled demonstrators, according to witnesses and medical personnel.
A mass of protesters took to the streets of Sanaa on Sunday to protest against a deal brokered by Persian Gulf nations that grants Yemen's president immunity from prosecution, witnesses said.
Yemen's embattled Pres. Ali Abdullah Saleh accepts a deal brokered by neighboring nations to step down within 30 days.
The death count rises in protest-ridden Yemen, with hundreds wounded. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
A proposal by a coalition of Persian Gulf nations to decrease tensions between the government and the opposition in Yemen may have done just the opposite.
Yemeni security forces opened fire on crowds with tear gas and live ammunition Friday in the southwestern city of Taiz, killing two people and injuring at least 300 others, according to medics at the scene.
The international community needs to step up and "play a more active role" in investigating the deaths of protesters in Yemen, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
Yemeni protesters and military and pro-government gangs clashed in several areas Tuesday, with at least six killed and hundreds more injured, as the future of President Ali Abdullah Saleh remained uncertain.
Reports of deaths from clashing pro and anti-government protests. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
The U.S. is helping to mediate a transition out of office for Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and say a departure date for the president is one issue that is being discussed, two Yemeni officials tell CNN.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh speaks outside his presidential palace amid protests and calls for him to step down.
Yemen's president, speaking to thousands of people at a pro-government demonstration on Friday, underscored his intentions to have a dialogue with protesters and make concessions in order to avoid bloodshed.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and a top military general are discussing a deal for a peaceful transition of power that would allow Saleh to stay in place for the rest of the year, a Yemeni official and senior U.S. official said Monday.
February: Yemeni protesters harness social media to garner support. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 hurt Friday in clashes between tens of thousands of anti-government protesters and security forces outside Sanaa University in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, medical officials on the scene said.
Thousands of Yemenis marched again Tuesday to demand the removal of Ali Abdullah Saleh as the embattled president blamed the United States and Israel for the unrest across the region.
CNN's Mohommed Jamjoon talks with Yemeni Prime Minister Ali Mujawar about the ongoing unrest in the region.
Yemen's prime minister, Ali Mujawar, on Monday defended his government, saying there is no reason Egypt-style protests should take off in the country.
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh will not seek re-election once his current term ends in 2013, he said Wednesday, after more than three decades in office.
Hundreds of protesters marched through Sana'a, Yemen, on Sunday demanding the release of prominent Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkol Karman, who was arrested on Saturday. According to a participant, security forces at one point clashed with protesters and at least 20 of Karman's supporters were later detained.
A Yemeni court sentenced in absentia U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki to 10 years in prison Monday for charges of inciting to kill foreigners, the state-run SABA news agency reported.
Yemen's parliament on Saturday began debating proposed amendments to the country's constitution despite calls from the United States not to proceed with any planned action.
Yemen is embarking on a major initiative in its war on terror and plans to build four new branches for the country's elite counterterrorism units next year, a spokesman for the country's American embassy said on Saturday.
The Obama administration is expected to deploy more Predator drones in Yemen to hunt for and possible strike against, al Qaeda in the country, U.S. officials said.
Yemen's foreign minister tells CNN's Hala Gorani that Yemen has American drones at its disposal.
Yemen's foreign minister has told CNN that his country has U.S. military drones at its disposal and that U.S. intelligence is helping find al Qaeda operatives.
Yemeni prosecutors Tuesday accused an American-born militant cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, with incitement to kill foreigners, a legal action that reflects the government's newfound resolve to hunt down the notorious al Qaeda figure.
The U.S. vows to learn from the recent thwarted terror plot and will continue to work with Yemen to combat al-Qaeda.
The Obama administration is having a series of high-level meetings on how to approach the situation in Yemen this week in the wake of a plot to send bombs from Yemen to the United States, senior U.S. officials said.
U.S. officials say that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a fairly new arm of the umbrella terrorist organization, is behind an apparent plot to send explosive devices to U.S. destinations via cargo planes.
CNN's Nic Robertson profiles alleged terrorist mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki.
Yemen's Interior Ministry offered a reward of 10 million Yemeni riyals (about U.S. $50,000) Wednesday for information identifying the whereabouts of two wanted terrorists, according to Yemen's official news agency.
A Yemeni court Monday sentenced to death one of the leaders of the terrorist group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen's state-run news agency reported.
Yemen's Interior Ministry is offering a reward 20 million Yemeni Riyal (almost US$100,000) for information leading to the capture of eight al Qaeda in Yemen suspects, Yemen's official news agency, SABA, reported late Friday.
Al Qaeda in Yemen is suspected of being behind three separate attacks that have targeted Yemeni security officials, according to a government official.
The British ambassador to Yemen said Thursday the embassy car attacked in Sanaa a day earlier was probably targeted because it was a diplomatic vehicle.
Yemen's deputy prime minister for defense and security talks to CNN about the terror threats facing Yemen.
Four Yemeni soldiers were killed and three others wounded Wednesday in ongoing clashes between the country's military and suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen, the military said.
A spokesman for the government of Yemen said Thursday that a cease-fire remains in place, despite clashes earlier in the week with Houthi rebels as well as the capture of Yemeni soldiers.
American missiles were used in an attack that killed 55 people, including 41 civilians, in southern Yemen, Amnesty International said Monday.
The British ambassador to Yemen survived an apparent suicide bomb attack Monday on his convoy in the capital, Sanaa, the British government and Yemen Embassy in Washington said.
The Yemeni government announced an end to its military operations against rebels in the north. CNN's Mohammed Jamoon reports.
The same day a cease-fire agreement was to go into effect, a high-ranking Yemeni official accused rebels of trying to assassinate him.
The Yemeni government announced Thursday an end to its military operations against rebels in the north in a long-awaited truce deal between the two.
Fighting between Yemen's government and rebel forces erupted Friday as the two sides were working on a peace agreement, a local journalist said.
The U.S. military does not intend to put ground troops in Yemen, a country where al Qaeda operatives have become an increasing threat, Gen. David Petraeus told CNN in an interview to be aired Sunday.
Gen. David Petraeus discusses terrorism and U.S. aid to Yemen with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.
Yemen's foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Qirbi speaks about the world's focus on his country.
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