Sana'a, Yemen - Yemen's Interior Ministry on Monday issued a list of 154 most wanted al-Qaeda suspects as police forces launched a nationwide manhunt campaign for the fugitive suspects.
The ministry said in a statement that the list, which includes 85 Saudis, was circulated to police stations, checkpoints, airports as well as sea and land outposts.
Security sources said police forces, backed by helicopters, began a fierce manhunt for al-Qaeda fugitives, mainly in eastern and southern desert provinces of the Arab country.
Sana'a, Yemen - At least five policemen and three Islamists were injured in clashes after police raided a militant stronghold in southern Yemen on Saturday, police sources said.
Sana'a, Yemen - An al-Qaeda wing in Yemen on Friday claimed responsibility for the suicide attack that killed four South Korean tourists in south-eastern Yemen this month, saying it was retaliation the killing of two comrades by police.
Sana'a, Yemen - At least nine African migrants drowned after they were forced at gunpoint by the traffickers transporting them to to jump from a boat off Yemen's southern coast on Tuesday, rescuers said.
Sana'a, Yemen - At least eight Africans drowned, and several others were injured, as a migrant-laden boat capsized at the southern Yemeni port of Aden after a French navy ship pulled the drifted boat to the port, Yemeni coast guard sources said.
