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Jun 1, 2012

A girl with a taped mouth takes part in a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 14, 2011. Yemen's opposition rejected on Thursday an offer to join Gulf-mediated talks in Saudi Arabia on a transfer of power in the Arabian Peninsula state and set a two-week deadline for Saleh to step down. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) — A girl with a taped mouth takes part in a demonstration to demand the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz April 14, 2011. — REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi

Anti-government protesters watch as fellow protesters ride motorcycles during a demonstration demanding the ouster of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in the southern city of Taiz May 2, 2011. Yemeni activists urged street protesters on Monday not to raise banners of Osama bin Laden to avoid inviting a harsher crackdown on demonstrations seeking democratic change in the al Qaeda leader's ancestral homeland. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Yemenis walk past destroyed buildings in Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province in southern Yemen on December 5, 2012, six months after the Yemeni army ousted al-Qaeda loyalists from the region. Before a counter-offensive by the army earlier this year, Al-Qaeda held large swathes of southern Yemen. But since its loss of a string of towns near the port city of Aden in June, most have fled into desert regions farther east. Although weakened, they continue to launch hit-and-run attacks on government and civilian

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A picture taken on August 8, 2018 during a trip in Yemen organised by the UAE's National Media Council (NMC) shows UAE-trained cadets of the Yemeni police, supporting forces loyal to the Saudi and UAE-backed government, marching during their graduation in the southeastern port city of Mukalla, the capital Hadramawt province, in the first such ceremony after the city was retaken from Al-Qaeda jihadists. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP) (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images)

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An explosives expert jumps from a military truck as he arrives at the site of a suicide bomb attack at a parade square in Sanaa May 21, 2012. A uniformed man blew himself up in the midst of a military parade rehearsal attended by senior officials in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Monday, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 60, a police source said. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)

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