Yemen Live Blog. The United States hailed Yemen on Saturday for retaking rebel bastions in the south of the country from al-Qaeda fighters. Yemeni troops took control of the city of Shuqra on Friday, the last major stronghold of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Abyan province to fall to government forces, which launched an all-out offensive last month that has already resulted in the recapture of the towns of Jaar and Zinjibar. The fighters remain in control of the smaller town of Al-Mahfad. "The United States commends the success of the Yemeni government, military, and people in re-taking important areas of southern Yemen, including the cities of Jaar and Zinjibar, from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement.
Taking advantage of the weakening of central government control by an Arab Spring-inspired uprising last year, the militants had overrun most of Abyan, seizing Zinjibar, Jaar, Shuqra and several villages. Yemen Post Newpaper online- EDITORIAL, LOCAL, INTERVIEW, REPORT, SOCIAL, BUSINESS, HEALTH, OPINION, YEMEN IN THE NEWS, MIDDLE EAST, INTERNATIONAL. Yemen News - Breaking World Yemen News. News | YemenPortal.net. English Translated Pages Automatically translated by Google News from Yemen Post Newspaper • Soldier dies in Hadhramawt(Yemen Post Staff) - 2014-04-13 Local official in the south-eastern province of Hadhramawt confirmed reports which alleged that a soldier perished by the hands of armed militant, in a raid against an outpost near Tarim, the regional capital. “Unidentified armed men”, read a report attacked a military camp near Tarim, leading to the death of one soldier • Yemen’s economic outlook remains grim(Yemen Post Staff) - 2014-04-13 A report from the World Bank published earlier last week came to concur the International Monetary Fund (IMF) findings that Yemen, among other countries in the region, will require external “financing worth up to billion in 2015”, should it be expected to avoid a massive economic meltdown • Women rights activist calls for change in Yemen(Yemen Post Staff) - 2014-04-12 Three years into the Arab Spring and many activists have said to be disappointing.
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