Airlines suspend flights to Yemen capital due to violence
International airlines have suspended flights to Yemen's main airport in the capital Sanaa for 24 hours due to the threat of violence, the Civil Aviation Authority said.
Schools on wheels come to Taiz
Source: Yemen Times Country: Yemen Mohammad Al-Khayat (author) Shakeeb Jaber did not imagine a day when he would be able to read and write. But when the impossible became possible, the 12-year-old was over the moon. “When I used to see children going to school, carrying their papers and notebooks, I ...
Airlines halt flights to Yemen amid fighting
SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's civil aviation authority says foreign airlines have halted flights into the main international airport in the capital because of heavy fighting in Sanaa between Shiite rebels and Sunni militias. In a statement on SABA news ...
Airlines suspend flights to violence-hit Yemen capital
SANAA: International airlines have suspended flights to Yemen's main airport for 24 hours due to weeks of clashes between rebels and Islamist fighters near the capital, authorities said. "Arab and foreign airlines have decided to suspend their flights to ...
Shi'ite rebels shell Yemen state TV, residents flee fighting
SANAA (Reuters) - Armed Shi'ite rebels shelled Yemen's state television in Sanaa on Friday and hundreds of residents were fleeing the capital fearing an escalation of violence after weeks of fighting and protests, local officials said. Shi'ite Houthi ...
Airlines suspend flights to Yemen capital due to violence
SANAA - International airlines have suspended flights to Yemen's main airport in the capital Sanaa for 24 hours due to the threat of violence, the Civil Aviation Authority said. "Arab and foreign airlines have decided to suspend their flights to Sanaa for ...
Yemen’s Houthi Shiite Rebels Battle Sunni Rivals
Yemen’s Houthi Shiite rebels Thursday battled Sunni rivals inside the capital Sana’a, escalating tensions in the Arabian Peninsula country, local media reported. The Houthis fought pitched battles against the Islah Sunni insurgents in the area of the ...
Yemen clashes kill nearly 40 as UN envoy presses rebel talks
Sanaa (AFP) - Fighting between Shiite rebels and Sunni Islamists backed by troops killed nearly 40 people outside Sanaa Thursday, as the UN envoy huddled in the rebel stronghold to try to end Yemen's political crisis. Fighting raged between the rebels ...
Yemen Army, Houthi Rebel Clashes Move Toward Center of Sana’a
Fighting between Yemen’s army and Houthi-Shiite rebels moved closer to the center of the capital as a deal to end the violence evades the government of President Abdurabu Mansur Hadi. Army forces loyal to General Ali Mohssein al-Ahmer, and backed by ...
Yemen's Shiite rebels, Sunni militiamen fighting in suburb of the capital
Sanaa, Yemen – Security officials say Shiite rebels have reached a suburb of Yemen's capital where they are fighting Sunni militias and besieging a university run by one of the nation's best known Sunni radicals. The officials say Thursday's fighting in ...
Armed Shi'ite rebels push into Yemen's capital
SANAA (Reuters) - Armed Shi'ite rebels pushed into Yemen's capital Sanaa after clashing with the army in the city's northwest outskirts on Thursday, security sources and residents said, in an escalation of weeks of fighting and protests. Residents of ...
Armed Houthi rebels push into Yemen's capital
Critics say the Houthis are trying to grab power and carve out a semi-independent state for themselves in the north - something they deny. Armed Shi'ite rebels pushed into Yemen's capital Sanaa after clashing with the army in the city's northwest outskirts ...
