Yemen

An aid group says workers in war-wrecked Yemen have recovered five more bodies from the rubble of a prison facility hit by a Saudi-led coalition airstrike.

The Iranian-backed Houthis, who hold Yemen's capital, Sanaa, and other territory in the Arab world's poorest country, took responsibility for the attacks.

The State Department has ordered the U.S. Embassy in Yemen evacuated as a result of the threat by al-Qaida that has triggered temporary shutdowns of 19 American diplomatic posts across the Middle East and Africa.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is sending military trainers back into Yemen for what it calls "routine" cooperation with Yemeni security forces. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. John Kirby, said Tuesday that "small numbers" of U.S. trainers have returned to Yemen recently...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Al-Qaida in Yemen has claimed responsibility for the killing of American teacher Joel Shrum. Thursday's statement, which was posted on a militant website, accuses the 29-year-old native of Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, of proselytizing in the mainly Muslim Arab nation...

GENEVA (AP) — Three Red Cross workers including a foreign national have been kidnapped while traveling in Yemen's restive south, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. The three — an ICRC delegate and her Yemeni driver, and a staff member of the Yemeni Red Crescent— were delivering food to refugees in the province of Lahj north of the port city of Aden, said an ICRC spokesman

WASHINGTON — The White House is calling on Yemen's president to transfer power and hold presidential elections by the end of the year.