Sectarianism
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 08:39
The military ceremony Wednesday was meant to be a fresh beginning, an army being reconstituted after months of bloodshed, in front of a new interim president who declared how proud she was of the nation’s soldiers.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 10:26
Shi'ite Muslim rebels and Sunni tribesmen agreed a local ceasefire in northern Yemen on Tuesday after clashes between the rivals killed about 60 people there last week, tribal sources said.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 10:09
In another indication of the growing unrest in the country, a mortar shell was fired overnight in the direction of the French embassy while a car bomb exploded metres away in Sanaa's diplomatic quarter, a police source said early Monday.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 10:47
A Saudi man wanted in connection with protests in 2011 among the Shiite Muslim minority in the conservative, Sunni-majority kingdom has handed himself in, police said on Sunday.
Monday, February 3, 2014 - 07:57
Shi'ite rebels have overrun strongholds of a rival Sunni tribal group in fighting that has killed at least 40 people in northern Yemen in the last two days, tribal sources said on Sunday.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 15:34
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 09:00
In his battle against an al-Qaeda-led insurgency in western Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s is providing arms and funds to unnatural bedfellows - Sunni tribesmen who complain of being neglected by his Shiite-dominated government.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 08:54
Local authorities told the state news agency Wednesday that 20 people had been charged with arson, theft and assault, 10 others are under house arrest and another 30 are in custody awaiting questioning.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 08:14
Yemeni security officials and a tribal leader say sectarian clashes between northern rebels and ultraconservative Salafis have killed at least 21 people and injured dozens in a northern Yemeni city after a truce fell apart.
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 07:01
“We pledge allegiance to [ISIS chief] Abu Bakr al-Husseini al-Qurshi al-Baghdadi to listen and obey,” a man identifying himself as Abu Sayyaf al-Ansari and claiming to be based in the northern city of Tripoli said in the audio message.