Partner Links: Learn Hebrew • Travel to Israel • Live Kotel Camera • Israel Pharmacy • Cellphone Rentals in Israel • Shalem College Open House

Saturday, May 18, 2013
Sivan 9, 5773
11:42 pm IDT
Site updated 2 minutes ago

The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Yemen

May 17, 2013
9:28 am

Illustrative photo of an American MQ9 Predator drone in Afghanistan (photo credit: CC BY AN HONORABLE GERMAN, Flickr)

Drone strikes lead Congress to rethink post-9/11 law

Between 2,424 and 3,967 people are believed to have been killed by US drones, the majority in Pakistan

May 9, 2013
6:57 pm

One quarter of the 3000 km.-long Euphrates River runs through Syria but Turkey, situated upriver, has drastically reduced the flow of water (Photo credit: CC BY Verity Cridland, Flickr)

A parched Syria turned to war, scholar says, and Egypt may be next

Prof. Arnon Sofer sets out the link between drought, Assad’s civil war, and the wider strains in the Middle East; Jordan and Gaza are also in deep trouble, he warns

By Mitch Ginsburg

April 14, 2013
11:43 pm

Lebanese pro-Syrian Popular Committees fighters near the northeastern Lebanese town of al-Qasr, Lebanon.(photo credit: AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Hezbollah-backed Lebanese fighting in Syria

Report confirms powerful Lebanese militant group is playing a growing role in the civil war just across the border

By Bassem Mroue

April 8, 2013
11:40 pm

US clears way to arm, train Somali forces

Move comes days after UK warns of impending terrorist offensive in capital of Mogadishu

March 31, 2013
1:08 pm

Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, November 28, 2011 (photo credit: AP)

Jordan: New government, old faces, dashed hopes

‘A regular government in exceptional times,’ a Jordanian analyst calls the kingdom’s new technocrat cabinet

By Elhanan Miller

February 16, 2013
1:05 am

Yemenis attend a pro-election rally in Sanaa, Yemen, in February 2012 (photo credit: AP/Hani Mohammed)

UN warns Yemen’s ex-leaders of possible sanctions

Former president and vice president accused of meddling in the country’s democratic transition

February 15, 2013
2:50 am

Iran's ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Khazaee (photo credit: screen capture YouTube/CBS)

Tehran denies transfer of weapons to Somali militants

Iranian UN envoy calls experts’ report an ‘absurd fabrication’

February 14, 2013
4:23 pm

German Ambassador to Israel Andreas Michaelis with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, August 17, 2011. (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90

Germany to help Israelis stuck in unfriendly countries

Tourists having trouble in one of the 30 states with which Israel does not have diplomatic relations will no longer be on their own

By Raphael Ahren

February 12, 2013
8:52 pm

Iran rejects accusations of arming Yemeni rebels

Following accusation by Sana’a, Tehran says claims that it arms Shiite insurgents in Arabian country are erroneous

February 11, 2013
1:01 pm

Smuggled weapons captured by IDF forces in February (photo credit: Dotz/Flash90)

UN sees arms reaching Somalia from Yemen, Iran

From the web Reuters: Monitors say Islamist militants in the Horn of Africa are receiving guns and explosive devices from weapons networks

February 10, 2013
8:46 am

Yemen minister says Iran behind weapons seized from ship

Investigation underway after discovery of arms destined for local insurgents; ‘Iran continues to defy the international community,’ says US State Department

February 8, 2013
1:44 am

CIA Director nominee John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee (photo credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nominee for CIA head defends drone strikes

Grilled in Senate confirmation hearing, John Brennan says waterboarding ‘reprehensible,’ not necessarily effective

By Kimberly Dozier

February 7, 2013
10:19 am

An Iranian cargo ship. (illustrative photo: CC BY-SA, sludgegulper, Flickr)

Seized Iranian ship carried weapons, Yemen reports

Authorities find ‘large, diverse and dangerous’ arsenal on board Jihan 1, captured in mid-January

February 6, 2013
6:46 am

An American predator drone (photo credit: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Drone strikes’ dangers to get rare moment in public eye

New York Times: US targeted killing policy will come under scrutiny as John Brennan faces confirmation for CIA director

February 3, 2013
1:46 am

Yemen confirms intercepted arms ship was Iranian

From the web Sanaa says Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles were hidden inside cargo on vessel captured late last month, Reuters reports

Page 1 of 7
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
>