Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Protesters shout slogans as they march to demand Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's immunity be stripped and that he stand trial for the killings of protesters who demanded the end of his 33-year rule, in Sanaa March 28.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Children watch from the rear window of a car as protesters march past demanding Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh's immunity be stripped, in Sanaa March 28.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Contains images which some viewers may find disturbing.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Military personnel and firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the site of an aircraft crash in Sanaa, Yemen on Feb. 19, 2013.
Reuters reports — A Yemeni air force plane crashed in the center of the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 15, security sources said.
The Ministry of Defense said in a text message that the plane had been on a training flight when it came down in a western residential district.
A military official said the aircraft was a Russian SU-22 fighter/ground attack aircraft. Read the full story.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
The wing of a military aircraft is pulled by a police vehicle at the site of a crash in Sanaa on Feb. 19, 2013.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
People and police officers try to recover charred bodies of a driver and passengers by cutting the wreckage of a burnt taxi at the site of a military aircraft crash in Sanaa on Feb. 19, 2013.
A Yemeni air force plane reportedly on a training mission crashes in a residential area of Sanaa, Yemen, killing at least 11 people. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
A boy arranges dried mud blocks at a traditional brick manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20, 2012. The bricks are made from clay and straw and widely used in the construction of houses due to its low cost.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
People work near a kiln at a traditional brick-manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
A worker adds water to clay mixed with straw at a traditional brick-manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
Workers carry dried mud bricks to a kiln at a traditional brick-manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20.
Mohamed Al-sayaghi / Reuters
Workers stack dried mud bricks inside a kiln to be fired at a traditional brick manufacturing site in San'a, Yemen, Nov. 20.
Khaled Fazaa / AFP - Getty Images file
A file photo reveals the traditional mud-brick architecture used at the historical city of Shibam in eastern Yemen's Hadramaut province on Oct. 28, 2008.
Adam Rivera / NBC News
The Ali Mosque has the tallest minaret in the Old City of Sana'a. It has been inhabited for more than 2,500 years and contains over 100 mosques.
Adam Rivera / NBC News
At noon every Friday, millions of Yemenis go to mosques to perform the Friday prayer. However, since the uprising that forced Ali Abdullah Saleh out of power, some Yemenis have moved from meeting in the mosques to meeting in the streets. Thousands of men gathered on this highway for a Friday prayer that was equal parts a spiritual ritual and a political rally.
David Lom / NBC News
Man sells nuts and spices along a narrow alley in the Old City.
Adam Rivera / NBC News
Father and son at Friday prayers in Sana'a.
Osama bin Laden may be lying in a watery grave, but in Yemen, the group he once led appears to be as strong as ever. Just a few years ago, there were only 200-300 militants in the Yemen-based al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). That number has now tripled, according to Gregory Johnsen, a top Yemen expert and author of the excellent new book, “The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia.” And, if you put together the group’s members, close supporters and family, Johnsen says the number is something like 6,000.
When the Rock Center team arrived in Yemen, they discovered a place that, despite all the warnings, was one of the friendliest, most hospitable of any that any of them had ever been. At the same time, they found a troubled country, the poorest in the Arab world, and a nation torn apart by several conflicts—the battle between AQAP and the government simply being the one that interests the U.S. the most.
Learn more about Yemen on Rock Center's broadcast Thursday evening at 8 p.m.
Adam Rivera / NBC News
The market is full of boys who sell clothing, trinkets and jewelry. Some have a vague understanding of French, Spanish and English and market themselves as the best tour guides money can buy.
Adam Rivera / NBC News
View of the Old City of Sana'a from atop Bab al-Yaman, one of the city's ancient gates
Adam Rivera / NBC News
A teenager restocks the inventory for the following day.
Adam Rivera / NBC News
A late night snack stand in the Old City.
Rock Center: Search for world's most dangerous man leads authorities to Yemen
Karim Ben Khelifa
Yemen's profile rose dramatically following a cargo bomb plot on two planes bound for the United States in October. Explore the country, in pictures.
Mohamed Al-Sayaghi / Reuters
Protesters climb a fence at the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on September 13, 2012. Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators stormed the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Thursday in protest against a film they consider blasphemous to Islam, and security guards tried to hold them off by firing into the air.
Yahya Arhab / EPA
Protesters attack the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, on September 13, 2012.
Hani Mohammed / AP
A protester, left, holds a white flag with Islamic inscription in Arabic that reads, "No God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet," in front of the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Sept. 13, 2012.
Yahya Arhab / EPA
Protesters storm the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, on September 13, 2012.
In Yemen, protesters breach the U.S. Embassy compound in the capital, Sanaa, as a wave of anti-American demonstrations sweeps across several Middle East nations. NBC's Richard Engel reports from Cairo.
NBC News staff and wire reports, Updated at 6:15 a.m. ET: Protesters angry over an obscure film critical of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, as unrest that led to the deaths of a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya spread to other countries in the region.
Yemeni security forces fired into the air as demonstrators reached the embassy's grounds, according to The Associated Press and Reuters. The New York Times reported that protesters managed to set fire to a building inside the compound but were forced by security forces to pull back after trying to take furniture and computers. Read the full story.
Zoubeir Souissi / Reuters
The U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed after protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam's Prophet Muhammad stormed the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, as protests spread across the region.
Related content:
•Sign up for the NBCNews.com Photos Newsletter
Hani Mohammed / AP
Protestors chant slogans demanding relatives of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh be fired from key military positions during a demonstration in Sanaa, Yemen on July 27, 2012.
Yemen's Defence Ministry via Reuters
Soldiers carry coffins during the funeral of dozens of soldiers killed in Monday's suicide bombing in Sanaa on May 24. A man with explosives strapped under his army uniform killed more than 90 people in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday when he blew himself up in the midst of a military parade rehearsal, the defence ministry said.
Funerals were held today for the victims of Monday's suicide bombing in Sanaa, Yemen. The attacks killed more than 90 people at a military parade rehearsal and wounded about 200 others. On Tuesday, the National Day parade was relocated to air force academy under heavy security. Reuters reports:
Yemeni soldiers marched in a National Day parade on Tuesday as the president watched from behind a bullet-proof glass shield in a show of defiance after a bomber killed more than 90 troops in an attack on the ceremony's rehearsal.
A somber mood hung over the event, meant to celebrate the 1990 unification of north and south Yemen, but it passed off without any repeat of Monday's bloodshed despite militant threats to carry out more attacks.
The bombing, one of the deadliest in Yemen in recent years, was a setback in its battle against Islamists linked to al Qaeda and heightened U.S. concerns over a country in the front line of Washington's global war on militants. Continue reading.
Mohammed Huwais / AFP - Getty Images
A Yemeni soldiers sits next to the grave of a comrade who was killed in a suicide bombing that targeted soldiers earlier in the week, at a cemetery in Sanaa on May 24. A suicide bomber clad in a soldier's uniform detonated explosives on May 21 as Yemeni troops were rehearsing for a parade scheduled for May 22, killing 96 soldiers and wounding 300 more.
Yahya Arhab / EPA
A Yemeni man walks over graves at a cemetery ahead of burying dozens of soldiers who were killed in a suicide bombing in Sana'a, Yemen, on May 24.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal in Yemen's capital, killing more than 90 soldiers. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
Yahya Arhab / EPA
Yemeni men push a car in a flooded street on April 9 following two days of heavy rains in Sanaa, Yemen.
Yemeni authorities warned citizens on April 9 to take precautions to avoid surprising torrents and rockslides, especially in the mountainous areas, due to possible flash floods after a second day of heavy rains in the country.
Mohammed Huwais / AFP - Getty Images
Boys attempt to rescue a dog swimming in a canal following heavy rains in Sanaa, capital of Yemen, on April 9. Authorities warned citizens residing in mountainous areas to take necessary precautions against expected flash floods
Mohammed Huwais / AFP - Getty Images
A man rides his bicycle through a flooded street on April 9 following heavy rains in Sanaa, Yemen.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters
Sanaa is an UNESCO World Heritage site and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters
A craftsman works outside his shop at the Souq al-Melh market in Sanaa's Old City district in Sanaa on Feb. 15.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters
A man reads a Koran inside an old mosque in Sanaa's Old City district on Feb. 14.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters
Men chew qat, a mild stimulant, inside a shop in Sanaa's Old City district on Feb. 15.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters
A shoe salesman sits inside his shop at the Souq al-Melh market in Sanaa's Old City district in Sanaa.
Mohamed al-Sayaghi / Reuters
A vendor selling donkeys waits for customers in his shop at the Souq al-Melh market in Sanaa's Old City district.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
A view of the Old Sana'a city in Yemen on Monday.
According to the Wikipedia article about the old city section of Sana'a, which is a World Heritage Site, some buildings there are more than 1400 years old.
Related stories:
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
An unexploded mortar shell, left from recent fighting between security forces and tribal militants loyal to the powerful al-Ahmar family, is seen on a road in the vicinity of government buildings in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Jan. 17.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
Military deminers dig to remove an unexploded mortar shell left from recent clashes between security forces and tribal militants loyal to the powerful al-Ahmar family in the Yemeni capital Sanaa January 17.
.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
A man gestures to anti-government protesters as they march from the southern Yemeni city of Taiz to the capital Sanaa, Dec. 24. The demonstrators arrived in Sanaa on Saturday after a five-day demonstration called "The March of Life" for a stretch of 250 kilometres (155.3 miles) to demand the trial of Yemen's outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
Reuters reports:
Hours later, Saleh, who repeatedly backed out of the Gulf plan to nudge him from power before a June assassination attempt forced him into hospital in Saudi Arabia, said he would both let Yemen's new government work, and oppose it.
"I will go to the United States. Not for treatment, because I'm fine, but to get away from attention, cameras, and allow the unity government to prepare properly for elections," he said, adding he would undergo some medical tests.
"I'll be there for several days, but I'll return because I won't leave my people and comrades who have been steadfast for 11 months," he said. "I'll withdraw from political work and go into the street as part of the opposition."
Yahya Arhab / EPA
Yemeni protesters run from tear gas fired by Yemeni forces at anti-government protesters in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 24. The protesters demand the prosecution of Saleh and his regime officials for ordering the killing of hundreds of protesters since the anti-Saleh uprising began 11 months ago.
Khaled Abdullah / Reuters
People sitting on the roof of a demolished house watch anti-government protesters as they march from the southern Yemeni city of Taiz to the capital, Sanaa, Dec. 24.
Hani Mohammed / AP
Protestors carry an injured man from the site of clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 24. More than 100,000 protesters who entered Yemen's capital Saturday after a four-day march from another city were attacked by elite troops loyal to outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who opened fire with guns, water cannons and tear gas. Medical officials said at least three protesters were killed, including a woman.
Hani Mohammed / AP
Protestors stand behind the gate of a field hospital to watch wounded demonstrators being carried from the site of clashes with security forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Dec. 24.
E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSS