Sources: The Star
Seventeen people are killed and five more injured during a rocket attack near a petrol station in the city of Marib, Yemen. The incident is blamed on the Houthis, who however did not claim responsibility. 2021-06-5
The United States Central Command announces that a U.S. airstrike in Ma'rib Governorate, Yemen, has killed Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi, who is believed to have masterminded the 2000 USS "Cole" bombing that killed 17 American sailors. 2019-01-4
Yemeni Vice President Lt. Gen Ali Mohsen Saleh says a plot to overthrow the internationally recognised government by Iran and Houthi rebels has been foiled. 2018-04-21
Three Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant bombings in Yemen's southern port city of Al Mukalla kill 38 government forces and injure 24 others. 2016-06-28
Six AQAP militants and two Yemeni soldiers are killed after clashes near a damaged oil pipeline in Ma'rib Governorate. Separately, gunmen target military officials and the home of the transport minister in the capital Sana'a, killing a brigadier general and injuring four others. 2012-12-25
Two gunmen shoot dead an American working at a language school in the Yemeni city of Taez for spreading Christianity. 2012-03-18
At least six Yemeni militants are killed following an air strike on a police station in the Abyan Governorate that the militants had overrun. 2011-07-14
Rival demonstrations take place in Yemen; President Ali Abdullah Saleh offers to hand over power to a "safe pair of hands". 2011-03-25
Protesters in the central jail of the Yemeni capital Sana'a take part in anti-Saleh demonstrations, where warning shots are fired. 2011-03-7
A US-born Yemenite cleric linked to Al-Qaeda, Anwar Al-Awlaki, advocates the killing of US civilians in a new Al Qaeda video. 2010-05-27