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A nation-by-nation look at Arab Spring's progress
On Wednesday, Egypt began its first free presidential election since it came under dictatorship 60 years ago. The winner will succeed Hosni Mubarak, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Secular or Islamist? Egypt chooses a president
Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. The voting that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Airstrikes kill 5 militants in Yemen
Yemeni airstrikes killed five militants in the south Saturday as the country's president vowed to intensify his campaign against al-Qaida militants.
Yemenis call for purges of ex-leader's loyalists
Tens of thousands of Yemenis took to the streets Thursday to demand dismissal of members of the country's former regime from top military posts, a key ...
Airstrike kills 15 al-Qaida militants in Yemen
An airstrike Wednesday killed 15 al-Qaida-linked militants in their training camp in the country's south, Yemeni military officials said.
Yemen UN envoy asks ex-president to stop meddling
The U.N. envoy to Yemen met Monday with the country's ex-president to press him to stop meddling in the country's affairs, diplomats said, a sign of ...
Yemen president challenged by ex-president's son
Yemen's new president faced a new challenge Sunday when the powerful son of the man he replaced appointed his own person — a relative — to head a ...
US, Yemen pledge united front against al-Qaida
The United States and Yemen pledged Tuesday to step up high-level cooperation in the fight against al-Qaida as government forces punched their way ...
Yemen army recaptures center of al-Qaida-held city
FBI director Robert Mueller and Yemen's new president pledged to step up the fight against al-Qaida Tuesday only hours after government forces fought ...