Organized Crimes

SHABWA, Nov. 10 (YPA) - The so-called "Southern People's Council" issued a statement reporting the abduction of the Council's head, Ismail Al-Najjar, and the head of its consultative council, Turki Qirat Basardah, on Sunday, at a military…

MAHRA/ADEN/DHALEA, Nov. 09 (YPA) - Citizens in the city of Al-Ais, Mahra Governorate, eastern Yemen, have found the body of Nidal Abdul Razzaq Mohiuddin (60), who was slaughtered under circumstances that remain mysterious. The Saudi-backed…

ABYAN, Nov. 01 (YPA) - Engineer "Hussein Baqri" was injured by gunfire from unknown gunmen suspected of belonging to factions of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) in Abyan governorate, southern Yemen. Local sources in the…

ADEN, Oct. 25 (YPA) - Businessman Nasser Al-Swaider, owner of "Al-Amal Complex" in Aden City, southern Yemen, survived an assassination attempt last Friday evening when armed men opened fire on his car while he was returning home. This…

TAIZA, Oct. 20 (YPA) - Armed elements loyal to the Islah Party forcibly entered the home of businessman Ibrahim Al-Majan in Al-Turbah city of Taiz province and took him and several members of his family to an unknown location, human rights…

HADRAMOUT, Oct. 17 (YPA) – A local official's son had found murdered in Mukalla city, the capital of Hadramout province. Human rights sources said that the body of Awad, the son of Abdullah al-Awbathani, the director-general of the Ministry…

SHABWA, Oct. 05 (YPA) - A prominent military commander in the UAE-backed factions survived an assassination attempt by an improvised explosive device (IED) on Saturday at the entrance to Ataq city, the center of Shabwa province in…

TAIZ, Sept. 18 (YPA) - The assassination of Iftehan Al-Mashhri, the executive director of the Cleaning and Improvement Fund in Taiz city, on Thursday sparked a major crisis after sanitation workers announced a full-scale strike in protest…

SHABWA, Sep. 01 (YPA) - Tribal gunmen abducted a prominent businessman in the city of Ataq, the capital of Shabwa province, on Monday, taking him to an unknown location. According to a source familiar with the matter, the gunmen kidnapped…

SHABWA, Aug. 30 (YPA) - Citizen Mohammed Ali Daman died under torture in a secret prison of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) factions in the Bihan district of Shabwa province after being arrested by the UAE-backed militia.…