Decision comes after fierce battles in the port of Aden that killed 17 people, among them nine members security forces including a colonel

Four people were killed and several others injured on Sunday when a suicide car bomb exploded outside the home of the director of security for the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, eyewitnesses and medics said.

A suicide car bomb detonated outside Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Rabbu Hadi's residence in the southern city of Aden on Thursday, a local official and eyewitnesses said.

ISIS militants claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed at least 11 people Thursday outside the palace where Yemeni President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi resides in Yemen's southern port city of Aden.

At least 20 civilians and fighters wounded in raids, as well as three members of the security forces.

Yemeni security officials say fighting between local affiliates of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has flared in the port city of Aden, killing 22 people at a time when government forces are battling both groups. They said Sunday that 17 of those killed…

Three suicide bombs hit the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Friday, killing at least 20 people, residents and eye witnesses said, and Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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Aden, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Yemen's national airline said on Tuesday a commercial flight had landed at Aden international airport after acquiring security permits, a step that will ease a blockade on one of the poorest Arab nations.