Yemeni forces raid al-Qaeda hideout in southwestern province

Yemeni government forces launched a security operation on Sunday targeting an al-Qaeda hideout in the southeastern oil-rich province of Shabwa. The raid, carried out jointly by pro-government counter-terrorism units and the Shabwa Defense Forces, targeted a suspected militant site near Read More …

Yemen: Unknown gunmen bomb crude oil pipeline in Shabwa

Unknown gunmen carried out an attack and blew up a major crude oil pipeline in the country’s southeastern province of Shabwa on Monday evening. The blast was directed at the pipeline responsible for transporting crude oil from the Jannah Hunt Read More …

Yemen: Oil pipeline in Shabwa sabotaged by unidentified gunmen

A group of unidentified gunmen carried out an attack and sabotaged a crude oil pipeline in southern Yemen’s oil-rich province of Shabwa, a government official said on Monday. The gunmen used explosives to bomb the main crude pipeline near the Read More …

Yemen: Roadside bomb explosion kills 2 government soldiers in Shabwa

Two soldiers of Yemen’s government forces were killed and four others injured in an explosion in the country’s southeastern oil-rich province of Shabwa, a military official said. A local military officer told Xinhua news agency on condition of anonymity on Read More …

Yemen: Bomb blast kills military commander in Shabwa

Yemen’s separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) said Saturday a senior commander was killed in a bomb explosion in the southern Shabwa province. In a statement, the STC-affiliated Shabwa Defense Forces said Major Salem Al-Jabwani lost his life in the explosion Read More …

Yemen: Security official survives explosion in Shabwa governorate, 3 killed

A senior official of Yemen’s pro-government security forces survived an explosion that struck his motorcade in the country’s southern oil-rich province of Shabwa on Thursday, a government official told Xinhua. “The explosion apparently caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED), Read More …

Yemen: 2 killed as blast hits pro-government security patrol in Shabwah

A homemade bomb blast struck a regular patrol of the pro-government forces in Yemen’s oil-rich province of Shabwa on Saturday, killing a military officer and a soldier, a government official told Xinhua. “The explosion is caused by an Improvised Explosive Read More …

Yemen: Roadside bomb blast kills 2 soldiers in Shabwa

Two Yemeni soldiers were killed on Saturday in a roadside bomb explosion in the country’s southern oil-rich province of Shabwa, a military official told Xinhua. The incident took place when a roadside bomb went off near a patrol of Shabwa’s Read More …

Tanker loading crude damaged by floating mine in Yemen

A Maltese-flagged tanker has reportedly been damaged by a mine while taking on crude on October 3 outside the Yemeni port of Bir Ali. MV Syra reportedly suffered significant damage, resulting in a oil spill. Sources report that Syra was Read More …