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Vice President Dick Cheney and President Ali Abdullah Saleh discuss joint efforts to fight terrorist activity at a press conference in Sana'a, Yemen, 14 March 2002. In November 2001, two months after Al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks on the United States, Yemen's then-President Saleh visited Washington, D.C., and Yemen subsequently increased its counter-terrorism cooperation efforts with the United ...
The existing U.S. embassy in San'a (North Yemen) became the embassy for the new republic. At that time, there was no U.S. ambassador to South Yemen, so the then-current ambassador to North Yemen Charles Franklin Dunbar, continued to serve as the ambassador to united Yemen until the end of his tour in 1991.
On 17 September 2008, a group of seven militants attacked the United States embassy in Sanaa, Yemen.The attackers first attempted to infiltrate the embassy compound disguised as security forces, but later resorted to an attempt to breach the wall of the embassy with a suicide car bomb after they were compromised, though the bombing failed as the vehicle had detonated from an inner security ...
Also during that time, the legation in Ta'izz was raised to embassy status on January 28, 1963 and the embassy was transferred to San'a in 1966. The Yemen Arab Republic severed relations with the United States June 7, 1967. A U.S. Interests Section was established in the Italian Embassy on April 10, 1970. The embassy in San'a was re-established ...
(Reuters) - Two U.S. embassy officers shot and killed two armed people after an attempted abduction in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa in April, the State Department said on Saturday. "We can confirm ...
He then served as economic officer at the American embassy in Sanaa, Yemen until 1967. He worked in the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian Affair in Washington, D.C. until 1969. He served as political officer in Jedda, Saudi Arabia from 1970 to 1973, and as deputy chief of mission in Sanaa, Yemen, until 1975. [4]
This is a list of diplomatic missions in Yemen. Due to the Yemeni Civil War , several countries have closed their embassies in Sana'a. Other countries have relocated their embassies to the southern city of Aden .
A statement issued on the embassy's website said: "The US Embassy in Sana'a is closed today, in response to ongoing threats by Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to attack American interests in Yemen". [144] Al Jazeera reported that the closure of the embassy can mean only that "they believe al-Qaeda threat is very serious". No reopening ...