Battles against Al Qaeda jihadists and Southern separatists killed 178 members of Yemen's security forces in 2010, the interior ministry announced on Thursday.
A total of "1,030 members of the security forces were killed and wounded in 2010" while "defending security and stability and confronting terrorism, outlaws, and crime," a ministry statement said, giving a figure of 178 killed.
The statement referred to clashes with members of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which is regrouping in the ancestral homeland of Osama bin Laden, and the separatist Southern movement, spearheading opposition to the government.
Sanaa is also battling a sporadic Shiite rebellion in the north of the poverty-stricken country, but the statement did not say how many security force members died in the fight.