Yemen

21 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Yemen, 2006 CE to 2023 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

21st century

21 entries, 2006 CE to 2023 CE

2006September 23 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, in office since 1978, is re-elected as President of Yemen with 77.2% of the votes, prompting allegations of electoral fraud from the Yemeni opposition coalition.Yemen source
2006February 9 - U.S. forces are searching for the USS Cole attacker who escaped from prison last Friday. According to Interpol, an al-Qaeda operative who had been sentenced to death for plotting the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 escaped with a group of convicts from their prison last week in Sana'a.Yemen source
2007January 28 - Six soldiers have been killed and 20 injured in attacks by Shia militants in the north of Yemen, officials say.Yemen source
2007September 30 - A dormant volcano erupts on Jabal al-Tair Island, a Yemeni island in the Red Sea.Yemen source
2010March 19 - President of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh declares an end to his country's six-year war against the Houthis.Yemen source
2010January 25 - Houthi fighters in northern Yemen offer to leave Saudi Arabia after three months of fighting on the border.Yemen source
2010January 6 - Yemen arrests three suspected al-Qaeda members, including one leader, northwest of the capital Sana'a.Yemen source
2010February 6 - 23 Yemeni government soldiers are killed by the Houthis in two separate incidents: 15 are ambushed in Wadi al-Jabara, while the remaining 8 die in Sa'dah.Yemen source
2011November 23 - President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a Gulf Cooperation Council brokered agreement in Riyadh to transfer power to Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi within 30 days. The agreement also called for presidential elections within 90 days and stated that Saleh would have immunity from prosecution.Yemen source
2011January 24 - Yemen frees a female activist accused of inciting disorder after protests demanding her release.Yemen source
2011January 3 - Two boats capsize off the southern coast of Yemen with a total of 80 people missing. Only three have been found alive.Yemen source
2012January 30 - A US drone airstrike kills 15 members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Lawdar in the Abyan Governorate.Yemen source
2012January 20 - The Yemeni government modifies a new bill that would have granted legal immunity to aides of outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh.Yemen source
2013February 19 - A Yemeni Air Force plane crashes in Sana'a, killing 12 people and injuring 11 others.Yemen source
2014March 9 - At least 42 migrants from the Horn of Africa drown when their boat overturns off the coast of Shabwah Governorate.Yemen source
2015March 30 – The People's Republic of China evacuates its citizens from Yemen due to concerns over declining security and also suspends anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden.Yemen source
2015March 31 - India evacuated 348 of its citizens as part of a rescue operation by the Indian Navy, named Operation Raahat.Yemen source
201725 June – The World Health Organization estimates that Yemen has more than 200,000 cases of Cholera.Yemen source
20189 August - A Saudi airstrike hit a bus in the Dahyan air strike, Sa'dah, reportedly killing dozens of children.Yemen source
202216 May – Yemen Airways operates its first commercial flight from Sanaa since 2016 under the U.N.-brokered truce.Yemen source
202316 December – The Royal Navy's HMS Diamond shoots down a drone launched from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen over the Red Sea using a Sea Viper missile.Yemen source