2014 in Yemen

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The following lists events that happened during 2014 in Yemen.

Incumbents

• President: Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi

Events

January

• January 8 - Two suspected al-Qaeda militants are killed in a U.S. drone strike in the southeastern province of Hadhramaut.^[1]
• January 18 - An Iranian diplomat is killed in Sana'a when he resisted gunmen who were trying to kidnap him near the ambassador's residence.^[2]
• January 31 - 15 soldiers are killed and four wounded by suspected al-Qaeda militants in an attack on an army checkpoint in southeastern Yemen.

February

• February 2 - Three explosions are reported in Sana'a along with heavy gunfire.
• February 10 - A presidential panel in Yemen agrees to transform the country into a federation of six regions.

March

• March 9 - At least 42 migrants from the Horn of Africa drown when their boat overturns off the coast of Shabwah Governorate.
• March 24 - Twenty soldiers are killed in an attack on a military checkpoint.

April

• April 4 - Suspected al-Qaeda militants attack an army post in Hadramawt province killing at least eight soldiers and injuring eleven.
• April 21 - 30 suspected al-Qaeda militants and 6 civilians are killed in a drone strike by the United States.
• April 30 - At least 30 people have been killed in clashes between al-Qaeda and the Yemen Army.

May

• May 9 - Yemeni security forces announce that they have killed Shayef Mohammed Saeed Al-Shabwani, an al-Qaeda terrorist wanted over a series of attacks in Sana'a.
• May 14 - Seven Yemeni Army soldiers and 16 Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula militants are killed in fighting near the town of Azan in Shabwa province.
• May 20 - At least 16 people are killed in clashes between Shi'ite Muslim tribesmen and Yemeni government forces and allied Sunni tribesmen.
• May 24 - At least 27 people are killed in an al-Qaeda raid on the town of Seyoun in Hadramout province.
• May 25 - The Yemeni Military kills 5 al-Qaeda militants and arrests 4 in a raid north of Sana'a.

June

• June 5 - An attack on a Yemeni military checkpoint by suspected al-Qaeda militants in Shabwah Governorate leaves 14 people dead.
• June 11 - The entire country of Yemen remains without electricity for a second day after insurgents sabotaged power lines linking the capital Sana'a and the contested Ma'rib Governorate.
• June 15 - 7 people are killed in Aden after a gunman opens fire on a minibus.

August

• August 7 - Yemeni forces kill at least seven al-Qaeda militants in the Wadi Hadramout region.

November

• November 1 - Clashes between al-Qaeda and security forces leave 20 soldiers and 3 militants dead in Hodeidah province.
• November 5 - A US drone strike kills five Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives including Shawki al-Badani and Nabil al-Dahab, leader of Ansar al-Sharia in Al Bayda Governorate.
• November 12 - Fighting between Houthi rebels and Ansar al-Sharia-backed Sunni tribes have left at least 33 dead in Al Bayda' Governorate.
• November 12 - A U.S. drone strike kills seven al-Qaeda militants in the south.
• November 25 - A joint operation by U.S. and Yemeni special operations forces on an al-Qaeda hideout in eastern Yemen rescues 8 hostages and leaves 7 militants dead.

December

• December 6 - An American civilian and a South African civilian die during an attempt to rescue them by U.S. Navy SEALs in Yemen. They were being held hostage by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
• December 6 - At least 70 drown when a migrant boat from Ethiopia sinks off the Red Sea coast of Yemen.
• December 9 - An Ansar al-Sharia suicide bomb attack kills seven soldiers at an army base in southern Yemen.
• December 16 - A pair of car bombs kill 20 children and 11 Houthi militants in Radaa.
• December 31 - At least 26 people are killed in a suicide bombing in Ibb.

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