http://www.mail.com/locations/3072-yemen.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/locations/3072-yemen.html http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2108666-obamas-drone-rules-leave-unanswered-questions.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama left plenty of ambiguity in new policy guidelines that he says will restrict how and when the U.S. can launch targeted drone strikes, leaving himself significant power over how and when the weapons can be deployed. National security experts say it's imperative to leave some room in the guidelines, given the evolvin... Fri, 24 May 2013 20:16:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2108666-obamas-drone-rules-leave-unanswered-questions.html 2013-05-24T20:16:25Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2108016-3-al-qaida-members-2-soldiers-dead-yemen-clash.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A security official says al-Qaida gunmen attacked a military position in a southern province, touching off fighting that left three militants and two soldiers dead. The official said the Friday attack in the mountainous al-Thalib region in the militant stronghold of al-Bayda province was repulsed, and nearby army positions responded wi... Fri, 24 May 2013 14:59:59 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2108016-3-al-qaida-members-2-soldiers-dead-yemen-clash.html 2013-05-24T14:59:59Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2107482-obamas-speech-welcomed-pakistan-yemen.html ISLAMABAD (AP) — President Barack Obama's speech on the use of drones and the fate of Guantanamo prisoners was largely welcomed Friday in two key countries affected by the policies— Pakistan and Yemen. But Pakistani officials criticized the president for not announcing an end to drone strikes against Islamic militants in the country in his landmark speech... Fri, 24 May 2013 12:20:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2107482-obamas-speech-welcomed-pakistan-yemen.html 2013-05-24T12:20:03Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2107386-obama-balances-threats-americans-rights.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Forecasting the changing nature of threats against the U.S. for years to come, President Barack Obama says "America is at a crossroads." And so, too, is his presidency's counterterrorism policy, which has long struggled to balance protecting the nation from terror attacks while upholding Americans' rights. The Obama administration this w... Fri, 24 May 2013 07:40:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2107386-obama-balances-threats-americans-rights.html 2013-05-24T07:40:33Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2104648-obama-sees-narrower-terror-threat-defends-drones.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. In a lengthy address at the National Defense University, Obama defended his c... Thu, 23 May 2013 23:20:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2104648-obama-sees-narrower-terror-threat-defends-drones.html 2013-05-23T23:20:16Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2106460-obama-lifts-ban-guantanamo-transfers-to-yemen.html WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not eliminated a terrorist organization trying to recruit jihadists. Lifting the ban is a step toward Obama's goal of closing the Navy-run prison in Cuba since nearl... Thu, 23 May 2013 23:05:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2106460-obama-lifts-ban-guantanamo-transfers-to-yemen.html 2013-05-23T23:05:18Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2104722-muslim-hard-liners-suspect-london-attack.html LONDON (AP) — A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday. Police raided houses in connection with the brazen slaying of the off-duty soldier, identi... Thu, 23 May 2013 21:57:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2104722-muslim-hard-liners-suspect-london-attack.html 2013-05-23T21:57:37Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2103812-4-americans-killed-2009-us-drone-strikes.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. The disclosure to Congress comes on the eve of a major national security speech by President Barack Obama in which he plans to pledge more transparency to Congress in his counterterrorism policy. ... Thu, 23 May 2013 02:45:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2103812-4-americans-killed-2009-us-drone-strikes.html 2013-05-23T02:45:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097590-suspected-us-drone-kills-2-yemen.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni security and military officials say a suspected U.S. drone has killed two militants in a town in the center of the country. The officials said the Monday attack targeted the two men as they were riding a motorbike outside Radda in Bayda province. The officials said the two men were suspected of belonging to al-Qaida, whose Yemen... Mon, 20 May 2013 11:21:01 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097590-suspected-us-drone-kills-2-yemen.html 2013-05-20T11:21:01Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2095380-suspected-us-drone-yemen-kills-4-militants.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A suspected U.S. drone strike killed four al-Qaida militants Saturday in a southern Yemeni province once overrun by the group, according to security officials. The officials said the attack took place around dawn in an area called Deyqa in Abyan province. Officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to brief the media. ... Sat, 18 May 2013 20:21:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2095380-suspected-us-drone-yemen-kills-4-militants.html 2013-05-18T20:21:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091516-congress-rethinks-911-law-military-force.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes. Senior Pentagon officials insisted on Thursday that the law should remain unchanged as the... Thu, 16 May 2013 20:17:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2091516-congress-rethinks-911-law-military-force.html 2013-05-16T20:17:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2089864-yemen-3-red-cross-workers-2-egyptians-released.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Three Red Cross workers and two Egyptian technicians who were abducted by armed men in Yemen's southern province of Abyan have all been released, Yemeni security officials said Thursday. The three staffers from the International Committee of the Red Cross had been held since Monday morning, when armed men stopped their ICRC-marked vehi... Thu, 16 May 2013 10:59:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2089864-yemen-3-red-cross-workers-2-egyptians-released.html 2013-05-16T10:59:17Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083746-gitmo-prisoner-obama-abandoned-detainees.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A Guantanamo Bay detainee says he feels abandoned by President Barack Obama and the world after more than 10 years at the U.S. prison. "I believe that President Obama must be unaware of the unbelievably inhumane conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison, for otherwise he would surely do something to stop this torture," Yemeni prisoner Musa... Tue, 14 May 2013 19:22:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083746-gitmo-prisoner-obama-abandoned-detainees.html 2013-05-14T19:22:14Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083728-govt-probe-obtains-wide-swath-ap-phone-records.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the wo... Tue, 14 May 2013 17:01:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2083728-govt-probe-obtains-wide-swath-ap-phone-records.html 2013-05-14T17:01:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2074612-yemens-leader-warns-al-qaida-expansion.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The president of Yemen on Thursday warned that the al-Qaida branch in the country was expanding and using assassinations and abductions of foreigners as a way to challenge the central authority. President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi issued his warning during a closed session of the National Dialogue, which brings political, religious and o... Thu, 09 May 2013 21:53:51 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2074612-yemens-leader-warns-al-qaida-expansion.html 2013-05-09T21:53:51Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2070760-militants-kill-3-yemeni-air-force-pilots-base.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Suspected militants shot and killed three senior Yemeni air force pilots traveling to an air base in the country's south on Wednesday, security officials said. Two gunmen on a motorcycle intercepted the pilots' vehicle in Dubba, an area about 10 kilometers (six miles) outside Al-Annad base in the southern province of Lahj, the official... Wed, 08 May 2013 12:17:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2070760-militants-kill-3-yemeni-air-force-pilots-base.html 2013-05-08T12:17:20Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2067976-yemeni-tribesmen-kidnap-2-egyptian-technicians.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni security official says tribal gunmen have kidnapped two Egyptian technicians working in a cement factory in the south. The official said the tribesmen abducted the two on Monday in Abyan province and took them to an unknown destination at gunpoint. The security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to regulat... Tue, 07 May 2013 08:10:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2067976-yemeni-tribesmen-kidnap-2-egyptian-technicians.html 2013-05-07T08:10:36Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059010-us-drone-strikes-rise-yemen-anger.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The cleric preached in his tiny Yemeni village about the evils of al-Qaida, warning residents to stay away from the group's fighters and their hard-line ideology. The talk worried residents, who feared it would bring retaliation from the militants, and even the cleric's father wanted him to stop. But in the end it wasn't al-Qaida that ... Thu, 02 May 2013 18:19:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2059010-us-drone-strikes-rise-yemen-anger.html 2013-05-02T18:19:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2056962-gitmo-closure-elusive-obama-steps.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite President Barack Obama's new vow, closing the Guantanamo Bay prison is still a tough sell in Congress. So the White House may look instead toward smaller steps like transferring some terror suspects back overseas. Shutting down the prison at the U.S. naval base in Cuba is a goal that has eluded Obama since he took office. In his ... Wed, 01 May 2013 20:43:16 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2056962-gitmo-closure-elusive-obama-steps.html 2013-05-01T20:43:16Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2049624-lawmaker-fbi-checking-training-angle-bombing.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing received training that helped them carry out the attack. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, is charged with joining with his older brother, Tamerlan, who's ... Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:48:26 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2049624-lawmaker-fbi-checking-training-angle-bombing.html 2013-04-28T16:48:26Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2049018-large-protests-southern-yemen-secession.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Tens of thousands of Yemenis rallied across the south to mark the 19th anniversary of the start of the country's brief, but bloody civil war. In a statement on Saturday, the protesters demanded independence from the north. Their calls for southern Yemen to once again be an autonomous state have compounded Yemen's many problems as the i... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 20:57:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2049018-large-protests-southern-yemen-secession.html 2013-04-27T20:57:36Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2048504-yemen-5-soldiers-2-al-qaida-militants-killed.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni security official says five soldiers and two al-Qaida militants have been killed in fighting in the central town of Radda, and a senior intelligence officer was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in the south. During Yemen's 2011 uprising, al-Qaida occupied large sections of the south before being driven out by the new governm... Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:09:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2048504-yemen-5-soldiers-2-al-qaida-militants-killed.html 2013-04-27T13:09:53Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2040010-dems-gop-press-obama-administration-drone-use.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats and Republicans on Tuesday challenged the Obama administration to spell out its justification for using drones for targeted killings amid growing concerns about unchecked powers of the presidency and Americans' civil liberties. "Even as President Obama commands a military with the most sophisticated weapons known to man,... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:13:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2040010-dems-gop-press-obama-administration-drone-use.html 2013-04-23T23:13:24Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2038770-yemen-court-sentences-11-al-qaida-militants.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemeni court on Tuesday sentenced 11 convicted al-Qaida militants to up to 10 years in prison for forming armed gangs to destabilize the country and planning attacks on foreign embassies and security forces. The sentencing came as militants attacked a military camp in the central town of Radda, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) south ... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2038770-yemen-court-sentences-11-al-qaida-militants.html 2013-04-23T20:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2034572-yemen-officials-us-drone-kills-2-militants.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemeni army officials say a U.S. drone strike has killed two suspected al-Qaida militants east of the capital, sparking a retaliatory attack on a military checkpoint. It's the third suspected U.S. drone strike in less than a week in Yemen. The officials in Marib province say at least three other militants were wounded in Sunday's strik... Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:10:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2034572-yemen-officials-us-drone-kills-2-militants.html 2013-04-21T13:10:21Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2029456-yemenis-dismantle-tents-declare-revolution.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — In a symbolic move, Yemenis on Thursday began to dismantle protest tent camp in the capital, Sanaa, and other cities across the country, declaring the end of their revolution. Yemenis, long dissatisfied with their ruler, President Ali Abdullah Salah, watched with the rest of the Middle East as Egyptians rose up against their president,... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:11:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2029456-yemenis-dismantle-tents-declare-revolution.html 2013-04-18T21:11:08Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2026318-yemen-us-drone-strikes-kill-5-al-qaida-suspects.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Two U.S. drone strikes Wednesday killed at least five suspected al-Qaida militants and destroyed the house of one of them in a mountainous area south of the capital, Sanaa, a Yemeni security official and witnesses said. The four were killed in the first strike while riding a vehicle in the desert area of Oussab al-Ali, about 140 kilome... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:00:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2026318-yemen-us-drone-strikes-kill-5-al-qaida-suspects.html 2013-04-17T21:00:46Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022986-pressure-cooker-bombs-suspected-boston-blast.html BOSTON (AP) — Federal agents zeroed in Tuesday on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out — with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel — but said they still didn't know who did it and why. An intelligence bulletin issued to law enforcement and released late Tuesday included a picture of a mangled pressure... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 05:34:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2022986-pressure-cooker-bombs-suspected-boston-blast.html 2013-04-17T05:34:31Z