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Yemen demands Iran explanation on arms shipment

February 10, 2013 09:31
Yemen on Sunday demanded an explanation from Tehran over an Iran-linked arms shipment seized last month and rejected interference in its internal affairs, state news agency Saba reported. "The Yemeni government will not allow interference in its internal affairs from any party, or for its territories to become a site for proxy wars," Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi told Iran's ambassador to Sanaa, Mahmud Hassan Zada.

UPDATE 1-Yemen demands Iran halt support for insurgents

February 7, 2013 19:45
* Yemen says Iranian arms included Katyusha, Strella missiles * Say arms destined for Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels * Shipment is likely to further strain Iranian-Yemeni ties (Adds that incident raised at U.N. Security Council) By Mohammed Ghobari

Yemen demands Iran halts support for insurgents

February 7, 2013 09:30
* Yemen says Iranian arms included Katyusha, Strella missiles * Say arms destined for Shi'ite Muslim Houthi rebels * Shipment is likely to further strain Iranian-Yemeni ties By Mohammed Ghobari SANAA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Yemen's president has asked his Iranian counterpart to stop backing armed groups on its soil after coastguards seized a consignment of missiles and rockets believed sent by the Islamic Republic, a government official said on Thursday.

Iran denies links to shipload of arms seized by Yemen

February 4, 2013 04:45
Tehran has denied that a ship loaded with rockets and explosives intercepted by Yemen's coast guard originated from Iran as claimed by Yemeni officials, local media reported on Monday. The reports cited an unnamed source in the foreign ministry as saying that Tehran "strongly denies claims" by Yemen that the vessel came from Iran and was loaded with arms destined for Shiite rebels in Sunni-majority Yemen.

Yemen says seized ship carried rockets from Iran

February 3, 2013 10:46
A ship loaded with rockets and explosives which Yemen said it had intercepted last month came from Iran and the arms were destined for Shiite rebels, a security official said on Sunday. "The boat was heading towards the (Red Sea) port of Al-Mukha" and the arms "were destined for the Huthi rebels in Saada," the northern stronghold of the Shiite fighters, the Yemeni security official told AFP. Yemeni coast guard in coordination with the US navy last month intercepted the ship in the Arabian Sea, authorities have said.

Hundreds of Qaeda-linked militants reinforce south Yemen bastion

January 29, 2013 12:15
* Extra fighters arrive overnight at al Qaeda stronghold * Air forces strikes, militant ambushes kill at least 20 * Largest offensive against al Qaeda's AQAP since May 2011 * At least six al Qaeda-linked fighters, 14 soldiers killed * More than 2,500 people flee homes to escape deadly clashes By Mohammed Ghobari

Large arms shipment intercepted off Yemen, Iran eyed as source

January 28, 2013 21:15
* Surface-to-air missiles among weapons intercepted * Eight Yemenis on board ship at time of Jan. 23 seizure By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Yemeni forces intercepted a ship on Jan. 23 carrying a large cache of weapons - including surface-to-air missiles - that U.S. officials suspect were being smuggled from Iran and destined for Yemeni insurgents, officials said on Monday.

UPDATE 2-Suicide bomber kills 11 Yemeni soldiers

January 28, 2013 11:30
(Updates number of troops killed, wounded) SANAA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 11 Yemeni soldiers on Monday after troops backed by tanks attacked an al Qaeda stronghold following the collapse of talks to free three Western hostages, local officials and residents said. Tackling lawlessness in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, which flanks the world's biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia, is an international priority. The United States views Yemen as a frontline in its struggle against al Qaeda.

Yemeni troops and tanks attack al Qaeda stronghold

January 28, 2013 08:30
SANAA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Yemeni troops backed by tanks attacked an al Qaeda stronghold on Monday after talks to free three Western hostages collapsed, an official and residents said, leading to a retaliatory militant raid that killed three soldiers. Tackling lawlessness in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, which flanks the world's biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia, is an international priority. The United States views Yemen as a frontline in its struggle against al Qaeda.

Yemen says regional al Qaeda's deputy head is dead -state agency

January 24, 2013 14:45
SANAA, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A Saudi national who was second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has died after being wounded by security forces in November, Yemen's state news agency reported on Friday, citing an unnamed senior security official. Said al-Shehri was wounded in an operation carried out by the security apparatus on Nov. 28 in the northern province of Saada, the source, a member of Yemen's supreme security committee, told the news agency.
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