Last November, 10 people were killed when a Yemeni military transport plane crashed near Sanaa airport.
Yemeni security forces, meanwhile, shot dead two militants north of the capital, Sanaa, said officials.
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For fear of reprisal, the Americans this week closed their embassy in Sanaa to the public.
On July 7, their 17 members traveled to the airport in Sanaa and boarded a Frankfurt-bound flight.
The Yemeni authorities have tightened security measures at Sanaa's airport, as well as around several other embassies.
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Fadl was held in Ibb for a week before being transferred to government detention in the capital, Sanaa.
Wednesday's strike targeted a vehicle near the town of Khawlan, around 30km (20 miles) from the capital, Sanaa.
The Sanaa government fears Iran is working with separatists and rebels in the south to destabilise the country.
The U.S. Embassy in the capital, Sanaa, said it had heard reports of an American death and was investigating.
The ministry said new checkpoints were set up on major roads in Sanaa.
Saudi officials have described AQAP as the kingdom's most serious security threat and have worked closely with Sanaa against the group.
To avoid attracting attention, families convoyed to Sanaa in taxis at dawn.
And the power struggle in Sanaa is not even the most difficult problem the National Dialogue Conference will face, adds Ms Alley.
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's deputy consul was kidnapped in Yemen's southern port city of Aden Wednesday, two security officials there told CNN.
But ever since North and South Yemen united in 1990, the central government in Sanaa has been slowly waking up to the island's potential.
His brother Sadiq also has armed supporters in and around Sanaa.
Sanaa airport was closed on Saturday, causing flights to be cancelled.
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Tribesmen demanding the release of prisoners kidnapped a female Swiss teacher in Yemen, two Yemeni Interior Ministry officials told CNN on Friday.
Sanaa al-Banna, 25, at work on her doctorate at Cairo University, left the Brotherhood a few years ago and has cut almost all communication with members.
Sanaa has invited them to join Yemen's national dialogue process aimed at reconciling the disparate groups that emerged before and during a political crisis last year.
At O'Hare, both men reportedly checked their luggage onto a flight bound for Sanaa, which was scheduled to stop at both Washington Dulles International Airport and Dubai.
Officials in Sanaa say that before unification in 1990, 700, 000 of South Yemen's 2m people held government posts, as opposed to 200, 000 in the far more populous North.
Meanwhile, thousands of people marched peacefully in the capital Sanaa.
The wave of development moving along the Bowery in the wake of Sanaa's New Museum with its offhand infusion of sophisticated Japanese design already contains the marks of Meatpacking-District gentrification.
Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen's former president says he will not leave his country unless his political, tribal, and military foes leave as well, a senior aide to the ex-president told CNN Thursday.
Washington (CNN) -- Authorities in Yemen questioned people at a mosque and a school in the capital of Sanaa because the facilities were attended by attempted bombing suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the spokesman for Yemen's Embassy to the United States said Tuesday.
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