Yemen
Yemeni women burn their veils to protest crackdownGAMAL ABDUL-FATTAH AP 10/28/2011 | Yemen protesters storm elite military base; 50 dieAHMED AL-HAJ and HAMZA HENDAWI AP 09/20/2011 |
 Hundreds of Yemeni women on Wednesday set fire to traditional female veils to protest the government's brutal crackdown against the country's popular uprising, as overnight clashes in the capital and another city killed 25 people, officials said. |  Thousands of protesters backed by military defectors seized a base of the elite Republican Guards on Monday, weakening the control of Yemen's embattled president over this poor, fractured Arab nation. His forces fired on unarmed demonstrators elsewhere in the capital, killing scores, wounding hundreds and sparking international condemnation. |
Yemeni forces open fire on protesters, 26 killedAHMED AL-HAJ AP 09/19/2011 | U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen AirstrikesMARK MAZZETTI The New York Times 06/10/2011 |
 Yemeni government forces opened fire with anti-aircraft guns and automatic weapons on tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital demanding ouster of their longtime ruler, killing at least 26 and wounding dozens, medical officials and witnesses said. |  The Obama administration has intensified the American covert war in Yemen, exploiting a growing power vacuum in the country to strike at militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets, according to American officials. |
US: Yemen President 'badly burned' in blast Express 06/08/2011 | Chaos in Yemen drives economy to edge of ruinROBERT F. WORTH and LAURA KASINOF The New York Times 06/03/2011 |
 Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh was burned on more than 40% of his body and suffered bleeding in the brain from last weekend's attack on his palace, US officials said, indicating his wounds were worse than initially reported. |  Even as Yemen’s political crisis deepens, the country is on the brink of an economic collapse so dire it could take years to recover, and hobble efforts to rebuild its fragmented society. |
Yemen crisis deepens as dozens are killed in street battlesTom Finn in Sana'a and Ian Black The Guardian 06/02/2011 | Yemeni Forces Kill 21 ProtestersHammoud Mounassar The Age 06/01/2011 |
 The crisis engulfing Yemen deepened on Wednesday with dozens of people killed as President Ali Abdullah Saleh reinforced his troops after heavy clashes with gunmen loyal to an influential tribal leader. |  Forces loyal to Yemen's embattled president have killed 21 protesters as they crushed a sit-in demonstration in Taez, an organiser says, on the same day as suspected al-Qaeda gunmen killed six soldiers in the south. |
Yemen transition deal falls through at last minuteMohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Sudam Yahoo! News 05/20/2011 | Qatar quits Gulf plan for Yemen, cites delaysMohammed Ghobari and Khaled al-Mahdy Yahoo! News Canada 05/14/2011 |
 A deal on a transition of power in Yemen fell through at the last minute on Wednesday, even as Washington stepped up pressure on President Ali Abdullah Saleh to sign a Gulf-brokered agreement to ease him out of office. |  Qatar on Thursday pulled out of a Gulf-brokered plan to ease Yemen's president from power, leaving a deal to end months of violent protests against Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule close to collapse. |
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