Abyan Irkiz (left) and his father, Zikri Ali, arrive at the Mount Everest base camp on April 29 after an eight-day trek. Photo: Handout. At 8am on Monday, April 29, most other five-year-olds were ...

Abyan Imtiaz Irkiz, 5, has become the youngest Singaporean to reach the Mount Everest base camp, completing the feat with his father, Zikri Ali, on Monday. Advertisement. Singapore.

Abyan Imtiaz Irkiz, 5, has become the youngest Singaporean to reach the Mount Everest base camp; He achieved this with his father, Mr Zikri Ali, 41, on Monday (April 29) ...

Yoga school founder Zikri Ali and his son Abyan, five, will embark on their record-breaking bid in April. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

More than 2km into the trek, Abyan and father Zikri Ali started up a steep slope. "Come, let's go. We're going to push ourselves up the slope, we're going to walk fast.

Veteran journalist Mohamed Ali told MEE that this was the best time for the STC and government forces to liberate southern areas from Ansar al-Sharia as there is currently a truce with the Houthis.

Yemeni troops backed by air support from the Saudi-led coalition have made big gains in province Al Mukalla: Yemeni government forces, backed by air support from the Saudi-led coalition, have ...

Yemen's Abyan province saw a "human rights catastrophe" during the conflict between the government and al-Qaeda-linked militants in 2011 and 2012, a report by Amnesty International says.

Yemen has been paralysed by five months of protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule. ... "The people of Abyan are innocent," said Jihad al-Jafri, a female protester.

One resident of Abyan province told the BBC that the town was chaotic and there was widespread looting. "About 300 Islamic millitants and Al Qaeda men came into Zinjibar and took over everything ...

Armed men said by the government to belong to al-Qaeda seize the town of Zinjibar in southern Yemen, according to reports.

Al-Qaeda is many things except “convenient” — unless you are Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Until the tide of Arab revolution swept into Yemen, the United States’ primary concern ...