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صادق الأحمر

الجمعة 27 مايو 2011

يُذكر أن الشيخ صادق الأحمر، أعلن اليوم الجمعة، خلال تشييع 30 من رجاله، أن المعارك الدامية في صنعاء بين أنصاره والقوات الموالية للرئيس علي عبدالله صالح تشهد "هدنة".

وقال لدى حضوره في جادة الستين "ثمة هدنة بيننا وبين قوات علي عبدالله صالح وثمة وساطة جارية"، مستدركاً "إذا كان صالح يريد ثورة سلمية، فنحن مستعدون لذلك، لكنه إذا كان يريد الحرب، فإننا سنقاتله".

وقد نظمت الجنازة خلال التظاهرة المعادية لنظام الرئيس صالح وشارك فيها عشرات الآلاف من الأشخاص بعد صلاة الجمعة.

صور للدمار الذي اصاب منزل صادق الأحمر من قصف القوات الحكومية له

Yemen Unrest in Foreign Press for Thu 26th of May 2011

Posted at 02:52 PM ET, 05/26/2011

Washington Post: Civil war looms in Yemen as violence escalates

By Elizabeth Flock

Anti-government protesters shout slogans as they demonstrate to denounce violence in Sanaa, May 25. (Khaled Abdullah - Reuters)Heavy explosions rocked Yemen’s capital early Thursday as clashes continued for a fourth day.

The U.S. State Department Tuesday ordered nonessential diplomats and family members of American government employees to leave and urged private citizens to do so as well, saying “violent clashes...may escalate without notice,” according to Bloomberg.

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Clashes in Yemen Spread to Tribes Beyond Capital

Ammar Awad/Reuters

Tribesmen loyal to Sadiq al-Ahmar, a tribal confederation leader, patrolled outside his house in Sana, Yemen, on Thursday. Tribal forces led by the Ahmar family are battling the government.

By NASSER ARRABYEE and J. DAVID GOODMAN

Published: May 26, 2011

SANA, Yemen — Yemen degenerated further into bloody conflict on Thursday as clashes beyond the capital drew in more tribal factions and threatened to widen the fighting between government forces and opposition tribesmen.

In Sana, the capital, the Defense Ministry said at least 28 people had been killed in a large explosion at a weapons storage facility belonging to tribal fighters, but did not provide details on those killed. The tribesmen denied that the cache belonged to them. >>>Read more>>>

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Battles widen in Yemen as tribal chief warns president: step down or risk ‘civil war’

( Mohammed Al-Sayaghi / Associated Press ) - The head of the powerful Hashid tribe, Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, center, walks with his body guards near his house in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, May 26, 2011. Yemen’s government said 28 people were killed in an explosion at a weapons storage site Thursday, but the opposition claimed military forces shelled a building used by tribal fighters who have risen up against President Ali Abdullah Saleh and warn of civil war if he refuses to step down.

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By Associated Press, Published: May 26

SANAA, Yemen — Fighting spilled across Yemen’s capital and frightened residents fled or cowered in basements Thursday as a powerful militia alliance warned embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh to either step down or face civil war. At least 28 people were killed as the four-day death toll neared 110.

The bold ultimatum reflected the growing confidence among the opposition forces — led the Yemen’s largest tribe — that they could be gaining the upper hand against Saleh’s regime with the uprising shifting from near daily street protests to fast-moving urban combat.

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Clinton says US, partners, are working to get Yemen’s president to yield

By Associated Press, Published: May 26

PARIS — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States is troubled by political intransigence in Yemen amid ongoing violence there.

Clinton says Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has repeatedly “reneged” on promises to step down, and she says the U.S. and other countries are trying hard to get him out. The U.S. had backed Saleh in exchange for cooperation against a branch of al-Qaida headquartered in Yemen, but Washington withdrew its support as Saleh pressed a violent crackdown on protesters this spring.

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State Department orders nonessential US diplomats to leave Yemen as security deteriorates

( Hani Mohammed / Associated Press ) - Anti-government protestors, shout slogans during a demonstration demanding the resignation of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh issued messages of hard-line defiance Wednesday even as intense battles raged in the heart of the capital for a third day, saying he will not step down or allow the country to become a “failed state.”

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By Associated Press, Published: May 26

WASHINGTON — The State Department on Wednesday ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to depart Yemen and urged all Americans there to leave as security conditions deteriorated with the country’s embattled leader refusing to step down.

The decision to tell most nonessential personnel and the families of all American staff at the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa to leave was a sign of Washington’s increasing concern about the situation in Yemen, where street battles between supporters and opponents of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh raged for a third day. The clashes have left at least 41 dead and dozens badly injured.

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Yemen’s Defense Ministry: Explosion in a weapons’ storage in west Sanaa has killed 28 people

By Associated Press, Published: May 26

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s Defense Ministry: Explosion in a weapons’ storage in west Sanaa has killed 28 people.

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Analysis: Yemen civil war likely without swift Saleh exit

By Cynthia Johnston

DUBAI | Thu May 26, 2011 10:59am EDT

(Reuters) - Yemen may have little chance of averting a tribal civil war as heavy fighting spreads in the capital unless President Ali Abdullah Saleh quickly resigns.

But Saleh, a stubborn political survivor, has likely already decided to fight to keep power in the strategic state where Gulf and Western allies are concerned that anarchy could give the strong Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda more room to operate.

Saudi Arabia, fearing instability in a neighbor located on a shipping lane through which 3 million barrels of oil pass daily, may decide to press Saleh harder to leave. But this is unlikely to be enough, barring a coup or military intervention.

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Yemen worries G8 as France and U.S. condemn Saleh

DEAUVILLE, France | Thu May 26, 2011 5:57pm EDT

(Reuters) - The United States, France and Canada stepped up their calls on Thursday for Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, after overnight gunbattles killed dozens of people.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking in Paris, urged all sides to immediately cease violence, and a French foreign ministry spokesman told reporters at a G8 summit that France blamed the latest bloodshed on Saleh's refusal to sign a transition deal.

The mounting threat of civil war will put the crisis in Yemen high on the agenda of Group of Eight talks in the northern French seaside town of Deauville, with world leaders keen to get the matter discussed by the U.N. Security Council as quickly as possible, a European diplomat told Reuters.

"We call on all sides, on all sides, to immediately cease the violence," Clinton told a news conference in Paris.

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Clinton: US working to remove Yemeni president

By ANNE GEARAN 
AP National Security Writer

PARIS (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the United States is troubled by political intransigence in Yemen amid ongoing violence there.

Clinton says Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has repeatedly "reneged" on promises to step down, and she says the U.S. and other countries are trying hard to get him out. The U.S. had backed Saleh in exchange for cooperation against a branch of al-Qaida headquartered in Yemen, but Washington withdrew its support as Saleh pressed a violent crackdown on protesters this spring.

Intense battles spread across Yemen's capital Thursday. At least 28 people were killed as the four-day death toll neared 110.

The State Department on Wednesday ordered nonessential U.S. diplomats to depart Yemen and urged all Americans there to leave as security conditions deteriorated.

Yemen Unrest in Foreign Press for Friday 27th of May 2011

NY Times: Airstrikes Reported East of Yemen Capital

By NASSER ARRABYEE and J. DAVID GOODMAN

Published: May 27, 2011

SANA, Yemen — More than 100 tribal fighters overran a military checkpoint to the northeast of the Yemeni capital Friday, killing several soldiers and taking control of an important eastern gateway to the city, according to tribesmen and witnesses. Five tribesmen were also killed, they said.

The Yemen military responded with helicopter airstrikes on areas around the checkpoint, known as Al Fardha, in an effort to dislodge the opposition tribesmen. Located on a mountain, Al Fardha is the main checkpoint between Sana and the eastern province of Mareb, and an important strategic location for the government of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, which has tried to seal off the capital to prevent tribal fighters from joining battles there. (Read more.....)

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Islamic militants seize coastal town in Yemen, killing 8 policemen and 2 residents

By Associated Press, Published: May 27 | Updated: Saturday, May 28, 3:07 AM

SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni security officials say hundreds of Islamic militants have seized control of a southern city, killing eight policemen and two civilians in gunfights.

The men took over two banks in Zinjibar as well as the city’s tax bureau and two security offices.

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Tribal chief brings power and wealth to bear in struggle to oust Yemen’s president

By Associated Press, Updated: Saturday, May 28, 3:24 AM

SANAA, Yemen — Yemen’s most prominent tribal leader has now become the most dangerous opponent to the country’s beleaguered president, with the wealth, power and weapons to do what protesters and international mediators could not: put Ali Abdullah Saleh in a corner.

Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar has taken on the mantle of leader of the movement to oust Saleh, his onetime ally, after 32 years in power. Al-Ahmar’s abandoning of Saleh two months ago was a heavy blow, but he’s become even more of a threat now, with his tribal fighters battling Saleh’s security forces in the streets of the capital. (Read more>>>)

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Yemen on brink of civil war as clashes spread

By Samia Nakhoul and Mohammed Ghobari

SANAA | Fri May 27, 2011 3:09pm EDT

(Reuters) - Yemeni tribesmen said they wrested a military compound from elite troops loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh outside the capital Sanaa on Friday as fighting spread, threatening to tip the country into civil war.

Yemeni fighter jets broke the sound barrier as they swooped over Sanaa, where battles between Saleh loyalists and the Hashed tribal alliance led by Sadeq al-Ahmar erupted this week after failure of a deal to ease the president out.Read more>>>

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Yemen tribesman: 19 killed in fight for military posts

May 27 (Reuters) - Yemeni tribesmen said fierce fighting to control three military posts killed 19 and wounded dozens in a region south of Sanaa on Friday, as clashes threatening to spark civil war spread outside the capital.

"There had been some skirmishes between the tribesmen supporting the youth revolution from time to time, but today it became a big armed confrontation," Sheikh Hamid Asim, a tribal leader from the Nahm region, said. He had earlier said tribesmen had seized one military post and were battling for two others.

Yemen's state television channel, citing a military source, denied reports that some military posts had been seized. (Reporting by Mohammed Ghobari; Writing by Erika Solomon; Editing by Cynthia Johnston)

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G8 says Yemen leader must quit, as agreed

DEAUVILLE, France | Fri May 27, 2011 3:57am EDT

May 27 (Reuters) - The Group of Eight leaders condemned violence by Yemeni forces against peaceful protesters and called on President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Friday to stick to his commitment to end his 33-year rule.

"We condemn the use of violence in response to peaceful protest throughout Yemen," the G8 leaders said in a communique to be released after a two-day summit in France.

"We urge President Saleh to immediately follow through on his commitments and ensure that the legitimate aspirations of the Yemeni people are addressed," the group added in a statement, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.

The leaders called for "a peaceful and orderly transition". (Reporting byLuke Baker, editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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Sanaa is now a capital divided between entrenched enemies

By Samia Nakhoul

SANAA | Fri May 27, 2011 2:08am EDT

(Reuters) - Like a Beirut, Belfast or Berlin of old, Sanaa is now a capital divided between entrenched and bitter enemies.

South Sanaa is under the control of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's security forces, and the north is mainly controlled by General Ali al-Mohsen al-Ahmar, one of Yemen's most powerful military leaders who defected in March to protesters demanding the end of Saleh's nearly 33-year-old rule.

Heavily armed soldiers behind barricades, sandbags and checkpoints separate the two sides as they continue a week-long battle that may decide the future of >>> Read more >>

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RT: US evacuates embassy in Yemen

The US State Department has called on non-operational personnel at the American embassy in the Yemeni capital Sana’a and their family members to leave the country because of the deteriorating security situation in the country. Public unrest in Yemen began in February aimed at toppling President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been ruling the country for the last 30 years. Three months of protests have left over 140 people dead.

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Blast at weapons storage facility in Yemen kills 28

At least 28 people have been killed after an explosion rocked a weapons storage facility in theYemeni capital Sanaa, Yemen’s Defense Ministry said. The explosion took place not far from the neighborhood where the forces of embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh have clashed with tribesmen for four straight days. The opposition claims the latest deaths were caused by heavy shelling of a residential area in Sanaa by government troops. Yemen has descended into violence after a massive uprising against Saleh’s three-decade-long rule erupted in February. Civil war now looms in the impoverished Arab nation as fighting between the sides continues.

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Yemeni jets bomb opposition tribal forces

From Mohammed Jamjoom, CNN

May 27, 2011 -- Updated 1834 GMT (0234 HKT)

(CNN) -- In an escalation of Yemen's crisis, air force combat jets bombed tribal forces opposed to embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a senior defense official said.

At least seven air force bombers were deployed east of Sanaa to the district of Nehm, where two military compounds had been overtaken earlier by tribal fighters, said the official, who was not identified because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

Ahmed Soufi, a senior advisor to Saleh, said 18 people were killed in the fighting. >>>Read more >>>

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Friday prayers expected to aggravate conflict

Further protests are expected in Yemen following Friday prayers, after at least 40 people were killed in clashes in the capital Sanaa Thursday over President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year-long rule, as the country sits on the brinks of civil war.>>>Read more>>>

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(BBC) Yemen: Air strikes 'target tribal fighters'

27 May 2011 Last updated at 11:41 GMT

Yemeni government forces have carried out air strikes against tribal forces opposed to President Ali Abdullah Saleh, tribesmen say.

They said air force planes struck an area in Naham province, outside the capital, Sanaa, leaving an unknown number of dead and injured.

Government and tribal forces have been battling each other for days.

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(BBC) Yemen: 'A ticking time bomb'

Reports from Yemen say that government planes have bombed armed tribesmen who had seized an area outside the capital Sanaa.

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Foreign Office urges British nationals to leave Yemen

British nationals in Yemen are being urged to leave the country immediately following clashes between government forces and tribal fighters in the capital.

The Foreign Secretary William Hague said he could not stress the need to leave Yemen too strongly.

More than 100 people have been killed in four days of violence.

Guardian journalist Tom Finn spoke to the BBC from the capital Sanaa and said that the clashes were beginning to die down

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Yemen Crisis: Key players

27 May 2011 Last updated at 11:25 GMT

Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has been clinging to power amid widespread popular protests against his rule, a string of defections, and a power struggle with a rival family. Here's a look at some of the key players involved. >>>Read more>>>

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