WASHINGTON, Dec 31, 2014 (AFP) - Two Tunisian and three Yemeni detainees were transferred from the US-run prison at Guantanamo Bay to Kazakhstan on Tuesday, the Pentagon said.
Tehran, YJC. Following a terror blast in Sana'a which caused damage to the house of Iran’s ambassador to Yemen on Wednesday, Yemeni charge d'affaires in Tehran was summoned to Foreign Ministry later in the day.
US Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that intelligence suggesting bomb makers from Yemen have teamed up with militants in Syria was "more frightening than anything" he had seen before.
Shiite Huthi rebels have overrun strongholds of powerful tribes in northern Yemen, witnesses said Sunday, in a major advance following weeks of combat that have left scores dead.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham announced that the Iranian diplomat who was shot by unknown assailants in Sana’a on Saturday has succumbed to his injuries.