Shiite Rebels
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Yemen's president flees country by sea amid rebel advance
World | Mar 25, 2015, 11:52 PM ISTSanaa (Yemen): Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi fled the country by sea today on a boat from Aden, as Shiite rebels and their allies advanced on the southern port city where he had taken
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46 killed, 100 injured in suicide attacks on 2 Yemen mosques
World | Mar 20, 2015, 06:40 PM ISTAden, Yemen: Triple suicide bombers hit a pair of mosques crowded with worshippers in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Friday, killing 46 and injuring 100 others, according to medical officials. The attackers targeted mosques controlled
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Former Yemen president flees capital after rebels let him go
World | Feb 21, 2015, 05:16 PM ISTYemen: Yemen's former president left the capital after Shiite rebels who surrounded his house let him go under international and local pressure, aides close to him said Saturday.The aides said former President Abed Rabbo Mansour
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Yemen president resigns under pressure from rebels
World | Jan 23, 2015, 07:03 AM ISTSanaa: Yemen's president today resigned under pressure from Shiite rebels who seized the capital in September and have confined the embattled leader to his home for the past two days.Presidential officials said Abed Rabbo Mansour
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Shiite rebels shell Yemen president's home, take over palace
World | Jan 21, 2015, 07:07 AM ISTSanaa, Yemen: Shiite rebels shelled the residence of Yemen's leader and swept into the nearby presidential palace Tuesday in what a top army commander said was an unfolding coup. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi -- an
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Yemen's rebels attack home of Islamist, 12 killed
World | Oct 19, 2014, 11:06 AM ISTSanaa: Yemen's empowered Shiite rebels attacked the home of a rival Islamist politician south of the capital on Saturday, setting off clashes that left 12 people dead, security officials said, adding that the politician was
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Yemen sets curfew as fighting roils capital
World | Sep 21, 2014, 07:41 AM ISTSANAA, Yemen: Yemen's top security body imposed an overnight curfew in restive areas of the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday after Shiite rebels took over the state television building amid heavy clashes and the U.N. envoy