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Yemen oil refinery resumes operations
Edit The National 04 Sep 2016
Aden // Aden's oil refinery resumed operations Sunday, more than a year after the armed conflict between Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels brought work to a halt ... "The refinery has resumed activities after receiving 66,000 tonnes of crude oil" from around one million tonnes stockpiled in the south-eastern province of Hadramawt, said Nasser Al Shaef, an oil industry spokesman ... *Agence France-Presse ....
Yemeni government forces drive Al Qaeda from two cities
Edit The National 14 Aug 2016
ADEN // Yemeni government forces backed by Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Sunday drove Al Qaeda militants out of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan province, and the neighbouring city of Jaar in a renewed offensive against the extremist group ... Government forces backed by the coalition recaptured the area in April as part of an offensive against Al Qaeda in southern Yemen that also liberated Mukalla, the capital of Hadramawt province....
Double suicide bombing at army base kills 6 Yemeni soldiers
Edit The National 02 Aug 2016
ADEN // At least six soldiers were killed in southern Yemen on Tuesday when two suicide car bombings struck an army base. Twelve others were wounded and officials said the number of fatalities was likely to rise ... The offensive, backed by a Saudi-led coalition of mostly Arab states, pushed the militants out of several cities, including Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadramawt, but Al Qaeda fighters have since regained some ground....
Family ties bind Oman and Yemen across border
Edit The National 31 Jul 2016
SALALAH, OMAN // During Ramadan last year, a few months after the outbreak of war in Yemen, Ameer Al Shanfari, an executive at a public insurance company in Salalah, called his cousin in Hadramawt to see how he and his family were faring amid the deepening crisis ... Diseases rather than war injuries are the most pressing medical problem in Hadramawt, Mr Al Shanfari says....
Oman faces delicate balancing act on the border with Yemen
Edit The National 31 Jul 2016
Before the war Al Mahrah was administered by authorities based in Hadramawt province to its west who had little incentive to spend funds on its development ... Official population estimates for Al Mahrah were kept artificially low by its Hadramawt administrators so that it would receive less funding, says Ms Kendall, whose own calculations put Al Mahrah's population at around 350,000....
Yemen: Twin bombings kill 11 in ex-Qaeda strongholds
Edit Indian Express 19 Jul 2016
(Reuters) ... One attacker drove his bomb-laden truck into a checkpoint in a western district of Hadramawt’s provincial capital Mukalla, security officials told AFP ... Share This Article. Related Article ... 6, slideMargin. 3 }); }); ... The commander of Hadramawt’s second military region, General Faraj Salmeen had earlier told AFP that the second bombing struck the centre of the city, blaming the attack on “terrorists” ... ....
Islamic State takes credit for Yemen blasts deadly to 33 troops, woman, child
Edit Japan Times 28 Jun 2016
A wave of suicide bombings targeting Yemeni troops killed at least 35 people Monday in the southeastern city of Mukalla, officials said, in attacks claimed by the Islamic State group. The capital of Hadramawt province, Mukalla had been under the control of al-Qaida for one year until pro-government troops backed by a Saudi-led coalition recaptured appeared first on The Japan Times. > ... ....
35 dead as suicide bomber hits fasting troops in Yemen
Edit Arabnews 28 Jun 2016
Author. . AGENCIES. Tue, 2016-06-28. ID. . 1467073682622796600. ADEN. A wave of suicide bombings targeting Yemeni troops killed at least 35 people Monday in the southeastern city of Mukalla, from which Al-Qaeda was driven out of in April, officials said. Provincial capital “Mukalla witnessed five suicide attacks in four areas,” Ahmed Saeed bin Breyk, governor of the vast Hadramawt province, said ... Main category. . Middle-East ... ....
19 dead in bomb attacks on ex-Al Qaeda bastion in Yemen
Edit Dawn 28 Jun 2016
ADEN ... Three simultaneous bombings hit security checkpoints in the coastal city at sunset, just as troops fasting during Ramazan were breaking their fast, said the security official ... Mukalla, capital of the vast Hadramawt province, remained under Al Qaeda control for one year before pro-government troops, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, drove the militants out in April ... ....
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