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5 weeks 5 days ago - Yemen

Twelve people including four policemen were killed on Saturday in an attack by Al-Qaeda-linked militants on a checkpoint in Yemen's southern port city of Aden, police said.

"Armed men from Al-Qaeda attacked a security forces checkpoint at Jawala at the northern entrance to Aden, killing four police officers," a police source told AFP.

The source, updating an earlier toll, said eight assailants were killed as security forces responded.

The attack comes after at least 222 people including 183 militants were killed in five days of clashes this week around the strategic southern town of Loder which Al-Qaeda is trying to seize, according to local sources.

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8 weeks 1 day ago - aden

Gunmen have abducted Saudi Arabia's deputy consul from outside his residence in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, a Yemeni security official has said. 

Police in the city's Mansoura district said on Wednesday that armed men snatched Abdallah al-Khalidi as he was about to get into his car, and sped off with him in another vehicle.

"Abdullah al-Khalidi was kidnapped while leaving his home in the Mansoura neighbourhood of Aden," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

He said police have launched an investigation into the kidnapping.

"He was taken to an unknown location and we are searching from him," he said. [AFP]

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Tags abduction, Saudi diplomat, yemen
9 weeks 5 days ago - Yemen

Yemeni security forces and unknown gunmen clashed Saturday in the southern port city of Aden, wounding two policemen and a civilian, a security official told AFP.

The gunfight erupted in the city's Mualla neighbourhood a day after a member of the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Sunna was arrested in the same district, the official said on condition of anonymity.

"Two members of the security forces and a civilian were wounded in the shootout," he said, without giving any more details.

Aden, Yemen's largest southern city, has been plagued by violence since al-Qaeda-linked fighters overran several towns in neighbouring Abyan province last May.

The extremist group has increased its influence in the country's mostly lawless south and east since mass protests demanding the ouster of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, which erupted in January 2011, weakened the central government and divided its security forces.

[AFP]

Tags aden, clashes, wounded policemen
11 weeks 2 days ago - aden

 

The number of soldiers killed in a weekend assault by Al-Qaeda militants on an army camp in Yemen's Abyan province has risen to 185, a military official said  following the discovery of more bodies.

"The toll has risen to 185 soldiers killed" in the Sunday attack on a military camp in Kud, just south of the main city of Zinjibar, the official said on Tuesday, adding that more bodies have been recovered from a nearby desert area.

Officials and medics have said scores of soldiers and Al-Qaeda fighters were wounded in the assault, while at least 25 attackers died. [AFP]

Tags Abyan province, alqaeda, soldiers killed, yemen
11 weeks 3 days ago - Yemen

A medical official at the military hospital in Aden, speaking on condition of anonymity, tells the AFP news agency that the death toll of Sunday's assault on the Yemeni military has risen to "at least 103" soldiers.

Sunday's assault on the nation's restive south was one of the single most deadly against Yemeni forces.

The AP news agency is also reporting that 55 troops have been taken prisoner by the fighters.

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11 weeks 6 days ago - aden

A Yemeni Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda said on Friday it had attacked and killed a CIA officer in the southern province of Aden, but a Yemeni security official said there were no casualties when a US security team was attacked there. 

In a text message sent to journalists in Yemen, Ansar al-Sharia said: "The mujihadeen (holy warriors) killed a CIA officer on Thursday while he was in Aden province, after tracking him and determining he was cooperating with the Sanaa government." 

An earlier message from the same group said it had targeted a US intelligence officer, without mentioning casualties. 

A Yemeni security official in Aden, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a gunman fired on a US security team involved in training Yemeni security forces on Thursday, but that the shots had hit their armoured vehicle without injuring anyone. [Reuters]

Tags alqaeda, cia, yemen
13 weeks 2 days ago - Yemen

At least nine people were killed in the south, including a child, three civilians and four members of the police and security forces, while dozens of others were wounded, medics and security officials said.

The 10-year-old child was killed near the election commission headquarters of the south's main port city of Aden when southern separatists traded gunfire with police.

The separatists also seized half of the polling booths in Aden and set tyres ablaze to disrupt movement, forcing officials to end voting there three hours early, security officials said.

The separatists, who say the election fails to meet their aspirations for autonomy or independence, were boycotting the poll, and hardliners from the group called for a day of "civil disobedience" to prevent the vote. [AFP]

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13 weeks 6 days ago - Yemen

Dozens of people were hurt in clashes in southeast Yemen between rival demonstrators supporting and opposing Tuesday's presidential election, witnesses said.

They said the trouble began late on Thursday when activists of the pro-secession Southern Movement, which opposes the election, threw stones and petrol bombs at a sit-in of pro-election activists in Mukalla, the capital of Hadramawt province.

The activists have been campaigning for the election, which will see Vice President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi stand as the sole candidate to replace veteran strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is standing down under a Gulf-brokered deal.

"Armed men of the Southern Movement" attacked their sit-in, the activists said in a statement, "injuring 60 youths of the revolution, some seriously, and setting fire to four tents" in Mukalla's Change Place, focus of the protests.

Residents also reported Southern Movement protests against the election in several other Hadramawt towns late Thursday.

Tags aden, Ali Abdullah Saleh
14 weeks 2 days ago - aden

 

A man was killed when a bomb exploded as he was planting it in a polling booth in Yemen's southern city of Aden, a security official said, a week ahead of referendum-like presidential elections.

"An unknown man trying to plant an explosive device in a polling booth in the neighbourhood of Crater... was killed when it exploded," the official told AFP news agency, requesting anonymity.

Security forces were swiftly deployed across Crater, especially near election committees' headquarters, the official told AFP.

"We cannot accuse anyone yet but the extremist factions of the (separatist) Southern Movement led by (Yemen Socialist Party's former leader) Ali Salem al-Baidh are trying to hamper the elections," he said. [AFP]

 

Tags bomb, death, Elections, yemen
14 weeks 3 days ago - Yemen

The prospect of the forthcoming elections in Yemen is showing little sign of bringing unity to the country.

The vote, along with the departure of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, form part of a Gulf-brokered deal designed to end a year of political upheaval.

But there are renewed calls for a separate state in the South.

Flags of South Yemen have been flying everywhere in the southern port city of Aden, a symbol of the South Yemen republic that joined the North in 1990.

These protesters say they have lost everything when they joined the union, their lands confiscated, rights denied, oil revenues taken away by the former government.

Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Aden.

Tags aden, Ali Abdullah Saleh, southern yemen

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