Organized Crimes

LAHJ, Sept. 15 (YPA) - A number of citizens were killed and injured on Wednesday in an explosion in Lahj province, south of Yemen, local sources said. The sources affirmed that a gunman named Ashraf Badr, threw a hand grenade on a grocery…

SHABWA, Sept. 14 (YPA) - A French national has been released after being detained in one of secret prisons in Shabwa province for nearly 8 months, east of Yemen. Wedad Al-Doh, the human rights activist, said on Facebook that a French…

ABYAN, Sept. 14 (YPA) – Two militia members affiliated with the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) were killed on Monday when unidentified gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire on them in Zenjbar city of Abyan province,…

TAIZ, Sept. 13 (YPA) – The police and customs of Taiz province destroyed on Sunday a quantity of Israeli-made smuggled clothes. The police explained that the counter-smuggling unit in the province seized a truck coming from Aden province…

HAJJAH, Sept. 12 (YPA) - Police of Haradh District in Hajjah province on Sunday seized 62 kilograms of externally-manufactured hashish, in addition to 15 plastic bags containing 14,966 narcotic pills. The police stated that the quantity was…

HADHRAMAUT, Sept. 12 (YPA) - A senior officer in the “Hadhrami elite” pro-UAE factions in Hadhramaut province, eastern Yemen, was assassinated on Saturday in areas controlled by Islah militants in the oil plateau. This comes as tensions…

ADEN, Sept. 09 (YPA) - Unidentified gunmen assassinated a short while ago a principal of a school in the port city of Aden, southern Yemen. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Iqra Schools, Salem Ali Salem, was killed in Aden, when gunmen…

BAYDA, Sept. 04 (YPA) - The Security forces in districts of Dhi Naim and Radaa of Bayda province, in separate operations since the beginning of this September, seized an amount of 20 million and 668 thousand riyals of counterfeit currency…

ADEN, Sept. 03 (YPA) - A gunman on Friday morning opened fire on a citizen inside his home in front of his wife and children in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden. Sources said that a gunman went to the house of Louay Mohammed Ahmed in…

ABYAN, Sept. 01 (YPA) - Unidentified gunmen assassinated on Wednesday afternoon two soldiers at an army post in Lawdar District of Abyan province, southern Yemen. Sources said that gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on two soldiers who were…