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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Yemen Salman Abdul Salam has lived on University Square in Sanaa for more than a year in protest. He hasn't had a job since graduating from college two years ago. His clothes are worn, and he says he's too poor to marry his girlfriend. But the...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Yemen (AP) — An airstrike Wednesday killed 15 al-Qaida-linked militants in their training camp in the country's south, Yemeni military officials said. The airstrike resembled earlier U.S. drone attacks, but the U.S. did not comment.
The...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Yemen An airstrike Wednesday killed 15 al-Qaida-linked militants in their training camp in the country's south, Yemeni military officials said. The airstrike resembled earlier U.S. drone attacks, but the U.S. did not comment. The officials said the...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
Yemen will ask donors for about $10 billion in urgent aid at a "Friends of Yemen" meeting to be held in the Saudi capital later this month, the country's planning minister said on Wednesday. "We are talking about $10 billion that we will need for...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
A second Yemeni has died following an attack on Tuesday by suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen on a vehicle carrying employees of France's Total in an eastern province, a worker at the oil group said on Wednesday. Total's deputy security officer Suhail al-...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Associated Press The late Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's former chief of staff is living in France with the government's permission despite facing U.S. sanctions and being wanted by Interpol. The presence in France of Basher Saleh threatens to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
A French security official working for energy company Total was wounded and a Yemeni soldier killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked their car, medical and oil industry officials said. The attack took place at Sayun in the eastern province of...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
French President Nicolas Sarkozy says that a former top aide to Libya's Moammar Gadhafi apparently wanted by Interpol is living in France with government permission.
The ex-aide, Basher Saleh, is a target of U.S. sanctions.
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Yemen (AP) — 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 continuing political instability that has emboldened al-Qaida.
The meeting...
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SF Gate
| 1 year ago
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 continuing political instability that has emboldened al-Qaida. The meeting between U.N. envoy Jamal...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Yemen continues to fight back an al-Qaeda insurgency in the south of the country -- on Monday a joint force of government soldiers and local militiamen killed eight militants near Lawdar. Lawdar, a town in the south-western portion of Yemen, has seen...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Yemen's new president is facing a new challenge to his authority over the military, with the powerful son of his predecessor disobeying orders and elevating a relative to head a security unit to protect his father. One of President Abed Rabbo Mansour...
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Fox
| 1 year ago
Also Sunday, Yemeni security officials said three suspected Al Qaeda militants were killed when a missile hit their SUV in northeastern Yemen. The officials had no details on the source of the attack or the identity of the three. U.S. drones have...
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The Daily Star
| 1 year ago
Former President Ali Abdullah Saleh will leave Yemen temporarily after Gulf states leaned on him to get out of the way of his successor to ease tensions complicating efforts to stabilize the country, a diplomatic source said Sunday. The diplomat said...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
The CIA has reportedly sought permission from Yemen's president to allow drone strikes even when targets have not been clearly identified as linked to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.' Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Almost hidden from outsiders,...
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USA Today
| 1 year ago
Navy commandos a year ago was a setback to al-Qaeda, but the Islamic terror organization remains a potent threat around the world, intelligence experts say. "It's on the defensive, but it's far from defeated," said Bruce Riedel , a former CIA officer...
