Yemen, officially the Republic of Yemen (Arabic: الجمهورية اليمنية), composed of former North and South Yemen, is a country on the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia and is a part of the Middle East, bordering the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden on the south and the Red Sea on the west. It borders Oman to the northeast and Saudi Arabia elsewhere. Its territory includes the remote island of Socotra, about 350 kilometres (217 mi) to the south off the coast of East Africa.

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Yemen was one of the oldest centres of civilization in the Near East. Between the 9th century BC and the 6th century AD, it was part of the Minaean, Sabaean, Himyarite, Qatabanian, Hadhramawtian, and Awsanian kingdoms, which controlled the lucrative spice trade. It was known to the Romans as "Arabia Felix" ("Happy Arabia") because of the riches its trade generated; Augustus Caesar attempted to annex it, but the expedition failed; Persian kings were more successful and Yemen became a Sassanid Persian province in 597/8 under a Persian satrap. In the 6th and early 7th centuries, Yemen was successively incorporated into the Ethiopian and Persian Sassanid empires. In the 7th century, Islamic caliphs began to exert control over the area. After this caliphate broke up, the former north Yemen came under control of Imams of various dynasties usually of the Zaidi sect, who established a theocratic political structure that survived until modern times. (Imam is a religious term. The Shiites apply it to the prophet Muhammad's son-in-law Ali, his sons Hassan and Hussein, and subsequent lineal descendants, whom they consider to have been divinely ordained unclassified successors of the prophet.)

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Yemen Says 34 al-Qaeda Militants Killed in Airstrikes: http://bit.ly/6CEZkC via @addthis
yemengazette (Mohammed Al-Amrani) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:44:13 -0000
Yemen Says 34 al-Qaeda Militants Killed in Airstrikes: http://bit.ly/6CEZkC via @addthis
Never Let Sam Kiss Boys Going to Yemen. i will remember this.
Seluj (Seluj) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:34:29 -0000
Never Let Sam Kiss Boys Going to Yemen. i will remember this.
#YVKEMundial :: Las fuerzas de seguridad de Yemen matan a 34 terroristas de Al Qaeda:  &nbs.. http://bit.ly/7DKd47
vtvnoticias (VTV Noticias) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:29:10 -0000
#YVKEMundial :: Las fuerzas de seguridad de Yemen matan a 34 terroristas de Al Qaeda:  &nbs.. http://bit.ly/7DKd47
New York Times: Yemen Says Strikes Against Quaeda Bases Killed 34 http://bit.ly/5cSCoP // wonder when the first leave Afghanistan for Yemen
derjanosch (janosch) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:26:00 -0000
New York Times: Yemen Says Strikes Against Quaeda Bases Killed 34 http://bit.ly/5cSCoP // wonder when the first leave Afghanistan for Yemen
Las fuerzas de seguridad de Yemen matan a 34 terroristas de Al Qaeda http://bit.ly/7DKd47 #noticiaoficialista
noticiasvenezue (Noticias Venezuela) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:19:27 -0000
Las fuerzas de seguridad de Yemen matan a 34 terroristas de Al Qaeda http://bit.ly/7DKd47 #noticiaoficialista
newStream ©: Yemen's Hidden War: Is Iran Causing Trouble? http://bit.ly/6TXJbV
greychampion (greychampion) Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:16:00 -0000
newStream ©: Yemen's Hidden War: Is Iran Causing Trouble? http://bit.ly/6TXJbV

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