Credit: Ljuba brankCC BY-SA 3.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenTemple of Awwam, Marib Governorate, Yemen · 2007
On 2 July 2007, an al-Qaeda suicide bomber rammed a car bomb into a convoy of Spanish tourists exiting the Temple of Awwam in Marib Governorate, Yemen, killing eight tourists and two Yemeni drivers and wounding others; a Spanish investigation was later closed in 2011 amid a lack of Yemeni cooperation, and no perpetrators were ever tried.
Credit: U.S. Navy photo by Ensign Elizabeth WilliamsPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenAden harbor, Yemen · 2000
On 12 October 2000, al-Qaeda suicide bombers detonated an explosives-laden boat against the USS Cole while it refueled in Aden, Yemen, killing 17 U.S. Navy sailors and injuring 37 others.
SOLVEDListenGulf of Aden, off al-Dhabba near Mukalla, Yemen · 2002
On 6 October 2002, a small boat loaded with explosives struck the French-flagged oil tanker MV Limburg off Yemen's coast, killing one crew member, injuring 12, and spilling roughly 90,000 barrels of crude oil. A Yemeni al-Qaeda cell was later convicted of carrying out the attack.
Credit: Voice of AmericaPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenYemeni Ministry of Defense complex, Sanaa, Yemen · 2013
On 5 December 2013, AQAP-affiliated militants detonated a car bomb and stormed the Yemeni Ministry of Defense complex in Sanaa, occupying a hospital and killing 52 people, including medical staff and patients, before AQAP later apologized for the hospital attack.
SOLVEDListenSana'a, Yemen · 2013
An Iranian embassy staff member was abducted at gunpoint in Sana'a, Yemen in July 2013 by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and held hostage for roughly 20 months before being released in March 2015 in exchange for five al-Qaeda leaders.
SOLVEDListenAden, British Colony of Aden · 1947
Over three days in December 1947, riots in the British Colony of Aden targeted the local Jewish community following a general strike protesting the UN Partition Plan for Palestine, killing 76–82 Jews, 33 Arabs, 4 Muslim Indians, and one Somali.
UNSOLVEDListenMukalla, Hadhramaut, Yemen · 2016
A series of at least six coordinated suicide bombings and armed attacks struck Mukalla, the capital of Yemen's Hadhramaut province, on 28 June 2016, killing at least 43 people and injuring around 37, most of them soldiers and civilian bystanders.
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