In response to protesters demands, Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced he will step down as president in the coming days. Saleh stated "I reject power and I will continue to reject it, and I will be leaving power ...

Yemeni journalist and activist Tawakul Karman is among three women awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The two remaining recipients are activists from Liberia. In an official statement, the Nobel committee said, "We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women ...

In the wake of the recent assassination of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al- Awlaki, the U.S. State Department stated that political transition in Yemen is still a top priority. The State Department maintained that the main focus is to convince ...

Sitting down for an interview with the Washington Post, Yemen's embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh stated that his vice-president (who been delegated the authority to sign on Saleh's behalf) is ready to sign the GCC initiative that would allow ...

In what United States and Saudi official are calling a  "clever, canny trick" by President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, officials of both countries are claiming that Salah's return to Yemen was not planned, and that he had “bolted the kingdom under ...

Thousands of Yemeni citizens returned to the streets, apparently rejecting President Ali Abdullah Saleh's latest proposal for a transition of power, and opposition members accused Saleh of political maneuvering. Additionally, bands of tribesman stormed a Republican Guards' base ...

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh called for a peaceful transfer of power through early parliamentary and presidential elections. Saleh urged his vice president to start engaging with Yemen's opposition in order to sign a transition deal, as he is committed ...

President Ali Abdullah Saleh abruptly returned to Yemen and called for a nationwide ceasefire as violence raged throughout the capital. Jamal Benomar, the UN envoy to Yemen, said  that the deteriorating security situation, and the reluctance of both sides to ...

Clashes claimed six more lives in Sana'a as tribesmen joined battles between rival military units. International mediators promoted a Gulf-initiated peace deal aimeed at halting the political impasse that has gripped Yemen for months, but the fighting continued ...

The Yemeni government announced a cease-fire on Tuesday, alleviating some of the violence in the capital Sanaa. “The armed and security forces have committed to Vice President Abdo Rabbo Mansour al-Hadi’s directives to a cease-fire in the capital, Sana,” ...

Government shelling and machine gun fire persisted in Yemen's capital Sana'a as violence continued for a third day straight. 10 people were killed on Tuesday, putting the death toll of this current wave at 60. "The deadly mayhem has raised ...

Twenty-one people were killed and approximately 100 more were injured when snipers fired upon passers-by and peaceful protesters demonstrating at Yemen's Change Square. The clashes arose as protesters pressed further into territory held by government forces. The ...

"Hundreds of thousands" of Yemeni protesters took to the streets throughout the country chanting "No deal. No maneuvering. The president should leave."  The demonstrations came as a response to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's Monday announcement that he had

According to state news agency Saba, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen issued a decree on Monday that gives Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, Yemen's vice president, "the necessary constitutional authority to negotiate" the peaceful handover of power. However, the main political ...

According to eyewitnesses and opposition supporters, hundreds of thousands of Yemenis flooded the streets of Sanaa and nearly every province on Friday in the ongoing campaign to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Meanwhile, the government said “millions” of the ...

A delegation of Yemen's ruling party members headed to Riyadh to meet President Ali Abdullah Saleh and seek permission for his deputy to negotiate on his behalf. The ruling party has proposed changes to a power transfer deal that ...

As Yemen's political crisis entered its seventh month, the situation further deteriorated Tuesday as  Yemen's ruling party  postponed a vote to approve "a modified Gulf-brokered power transition plan which aims to pull......out of its bloody political deadlock." President Ali ...

On Monday, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh reiterated his commitment to holding presidential elections to transfer power to a new leader within the next three months.  Saleh issued the statement from Saudi Arabia, where he has been

Prime Minister Ali Mujawar returned to Yemen yesterday after months of convalescing in Saudi Arabia following a bombing of the presidential compound in early June. Mujawar is the first high ranking Yemeni official to return from Saudi Arabia, ...