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Iraq stays execution of man allegedly held at 16
Iraq has suspended the execution of a Yemeni prisoner whose family claims was 16 years old when he was taken into custody, an Iraqi official and human ...
Senior Yemeni intelligence officer killed
Yemeni military officials say that a senior intelligence officer in southeastern Hadramawt province has been killed by two unknown assailants on a ...
Yemen: 8 soldiers killed in ambush
Eight Yemeni soldiers including a senior officer were killed in an ambush by militants while visiting a main oil pipeline that had been destroyed in ...
Amnesty details 'horrific' abuses in south Yemen
Al-Qaida committed "horrific" rights abuses during its 16 months in power in southern Yemen, Amnesty International charged in a report released ...
Suspected US drone strike kills 3 in Pakistan
Pakistani officials say a suspected U.S. missile strike has killed three militants in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border.
Yemen says it has arrested an Al-Qaida leader
Yemen's Interior Ministry says police have arrested an al-Qaida leader who is one of the country's most wanted fugitives. The ministry, in a statement ...
US finds Guantanamo prisoner death was overdose
An autopsy has found that a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who died in September took an overdose of medication in an apparent suicide, a U.S. official said ...
Gunmen in Yemen kill Saudi army officer
Gunmen in Yemen opened fire on the car of a Saudi Arabian army officer working with his embassy's military section on Wednesday, killing him and his ...
Yemeni man sets himself on fire outside Cabinet
Medical officials say a Yemeni man set himself on fire outside the Cabinet building in the capital Sanaa. The officials say Abdel-Hakim Hamoud Qasim ...
4 killed during Shiite gathering in Yemeni capital
Yemeni security officials say that four Shiites were killed when unknown assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade into a gathering of worshippers ...
Yemeni military plane crashes, killing 10
A Yemeni military plane crashed early Wednesday during training over the capital, Sanaa, killing all 10 people on board, security officials said.
Suspected al-Qaida attack kills 3 in south Yemen
Yemeni security officials say a suspected al-Qaida suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint manned by pro-government tribesmen in the country's south, ...
Yemen security official assassinated in capital
A Yemeni intelligence officer was assassinated in a drive-by shooting by unidentified gunmen Wednesday in the capital, Sanaa, in the latest attack ...
Saudi: al-Qaida shoots 2 guards on Yemen border
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry says a group of 11 al-Qaida fighters has killed two border guards while trying to cross into Yemen before they ...
Officials say 3 killed in airstrike in north Yemen
Yemeni officials and local tribesmen say an airstrike has targeted al-Qaida militants in a house in northern Yemen, killing three people, two of them ...
2 Yemeni senior security officers assassinated
A Yemeni security official says militants have assassinated two senior officers in drive-by shooting south of the capital. The official says that one ...
Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen says in audio he's alive
A man claiming to be al-Qaida's No. 2 in Yemen released an audio denying reports that he had died in a U.S. drone attack, as Yemeni officials said ...
Rights group: Yemen security forces raid hospitals
Yemeni security forces have raided hospitals in Aden in search of suspected militants, threatening health care in the southern port city, an ...
Shark finning hitting Persian Gulf sharks hard
Armed with a clip board and wearing bright yellow waders, Rima Jabado looked the part of a government inspector at the Dubai fish market as workers ...
Al-Qaida suicide raid kills 14 Yemeni soldiers
Suspected al-Qaida suicide bombers disguised in military uniforms stormed into an army base in southern Yemen on Friday, killing 14 soldiers and ...
Yemen: Suspected US drone strikes kill 7 militants
Suspected U.S. drone strikes killed at least seven al-Qaida-linked militants in southern Yemen on Thursday, Yemeni security officials and witnesses ...
Africa, West combine to rout militants in Somalia
The first Ugandan soldiers to fly into Somalia 5 1/2 years ago came under attack as soon as they arrived: Militants fired mortars at the new mission's ...
Yemeni intelligence officer killed in shooting
A senior Yemeni intelligence officer was shot dead in the capital, Sanaa, when a speeding gunman on a motorcycle opened fire Tuesday, the latest ...
Jet fighter crashes in Yemen, killing pilot
A Yemeni jet fighter crashed immediately after takeoff during a training mission on Monday, killing its pilot, Yemen's Defense Ministry said.
Yemen says "terrorists" killed US embassy worker
Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi said Friday that "terrorists" were behind the assassination of a security official for the U.S. Embassy in ...