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After bombing, somber Yemen marks National Day
Grieving Yemenis held somber ceremonies Tuesday to mark the country's National Day following a suicide bombing a day earlier that killed nearly 100 ...
96 Yemeni soldiers killed in suicide bombing
A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at ...
Obama says Yemen now a hub for foreign terrorists
President Barack Obama says the United States is very worried about al-Qaida terrorism and extremism in Yemen. Obama says Yemen is drawing foreign ...
Pentagon civilian contractors attacked in Yemen
The Pentagon says three civilian contractors helping train Yemen's coast guard were attacked in Yemen. Cmdr. Bill Speaks, a Defense Department ...
Death toll in Yemen bombing rises to 38 soldiers
Officials say the death toll from a suicide bombing at a military parade rehearsal in the capital Sanaa has risen to 38 troops. The military officials ...
Yemen: 36 killed in fighting with al-Qaida
Yemeni officials say fresh clashes with al-Qaida fighters in the south have left at least 34 people dead, while a suspected U.S. drone strike has ...
Yemeni army pushing into al-Qaida stronghold
Government troops battling al-Qaida fighters in southern Yemen have made inroads into the militants' strongholds, but the offensive on a strategic ...
Obama warns against political disruption in Yemen
President Barack Obama served notice Wednesday that he would punish those trying to disrupt the political transition in Yemen, a strategically ...
US helps Yemen in offensive on al-Qaida in south
Yemeni warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have waged a four-front assault against the strongholds of al-Qaida militants in the south, with ...
Fierce clashes between Yemeni army, al-Qaida
Yemeni military officials say warplanes and troops backed by heavy artillery have intensified the war against al-Qaida along at least four fronts in ...
Yemeni raids kill 16 al-Qaida militants in south
Yemeni government forces pounded al-Qaida targets on Monday, killing at least 16 militants in the troubled south where the army is trying to uproot ...
Yemen: US drone strikes kill 11 al-Qaida militants
Two suspected U.S. drone strikes have killed 11 al-Qaida militants in southern Yemen, military officials in the country say. The first of the two ...
Yemen airstrikes, raids kill 17 al-Qaida militants
Two airstrikes Thursday in south Yemen killed seven al-Qaida militants, including two top operatives, officials said. Yemeni soldiers, meanwhile, ...
Yemen: Airstrike kills 5 al-Qaida militants
An airstrike killed five al-Qaida militants in the south of Yemen on Thursday, officials said, days after details emerged about a Saudi mole within ...
Saudis emerge as key US ally against terrorists
A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the ...
Report: Appeals court chokes off Gitmo reviews
An academic analysis finds that the federal appeals court in Washington has effectively blunted a 2008 Supreme Court decision giving terrorist ...
Form-fitting underwear bomb built to foil security
Al-Qaida designed a bomb to slip inside form-fitting, brief-style underwear in hopes it would go undetected even if the bomber received an airport ...
Al-Qaida bomb master: 'Brutality' and 'novelty'
Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri has built a reputation as al-Qaida's bomb-making savant one potential near miss at a time: Explosive-rigged underwear aboard ...
Officials: Al-Qaida bomber was CIA informant
The CIA had al-Qaida fooled from the beginning. Last month, U.S. intelligence learned that al-Qaida's Yemen branch hoped to launch a spectacular ...
Pentagon sending trainers back into Yemen
The Pentagon said Tuesday it is sending military trainers back to Yemen for "routine" counterterrorism cooperation with Yemeni security forces amid ...
CIA derails plot with al-Qaida underwear bomb
U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official ...
CIA thwarts 'undetectable' al-Qaida bomb plot
The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design ...
Al-Qaida surprise attack kills 22 Yemeni soldiers
Al-Qaida militants staged a surprise attack Monday on a Yemeni army base in the south, killing 22 soldiers and capturing 25 just hours after a U.S.