A Soviet-era tank rusts on the northern coast of the Yemeni island of Ghubbah - Copyright AFP Peter MARTELL A Soviet-era tank rusts on the northern coast of the ...

ADEN (Reuters) - Yemen's internationally recognised government swore in new governors for Hadhramout and Socotra, state media said on Monday, in a move political sources said was aimed at bolstering ...

ADEN (Reuters) – Southern separatists have seized control of Yemen’s island of Socotra in the Arabian Sea, deposing its governor and driving out forces of the Saudi-backed government which condemned ...

In this file 2013 photo, a woman sits on the road to Homhil of the Socotra islands. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi ADEN, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Winds and rain from the second rare cyclone to hit Yemen in two ...

SANAA, YemenSANAA, Yemen — Hundreds are protesting in Yemen’s remote island of Socotra in the Gulf of Aden near Somalia, demanding the United Arab Emirates withdraw from the island and from the ...

A separatist group in Yemen on Saturday led a coup on the island of Socotra, deposing the government forces previously stationed there. The move represents growing fractures within the broader ...

Socotra Island has been called the most alien-looking place on Earth, and with good reason. Sitting off the coast of Yemen in the Arabian Sea, it’s home to plants and landscapes found nowhere else.

Some places on earth contain so much natural, untouched beauty that you simply must see it to believe it. Socotra is one such place. Brimming with wondrous and incredible biodiversity, it is home to ...

ADEN, Yemen, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Authorities on Yemen's Socotra island burnt two tonnes of the mild narcotic drug qat on Saturday, a shipment seized from smugglers trying to defy last week's ban by the ...

On the drive into the windswept port of Qalansiyah on the northwest corner of Socotra, an offshore territory of Yemen, a line of overturned wooden boats becomes visible just beyond a row of high dunes ...