Yemen Al Qaida

35 Al Qaeda Militants Killed Days After Deadly Blast

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.24.2012

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SANAA, Yemen -- Yemen's military launched an attack Thursday on an al-Qaida hideout in the country's south as part of a wider offensive, killing 35 mi...

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Deadly Al Qaeda Clashes

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.23.2012

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SANAA, Yemen -- Yemeni military officials say fresh clashes between government troops and al-Qaida fighters in the south have killed 22 militants and ...

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17 Dead In Al Qaeda Clashes

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.21.2012

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SANAA, Yemen — Fresh clashes between al-Qaida fighters and government forces in Yemen left 17 dead on Sunday, military officials said, as the ar...

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16 Militants, 6 Soldiers Killed In Yeman Al Qaeda Battle

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.15.2012

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SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni warplanes pounded al-Qaida fighters on Monday, killing at least 16, while seven soldiers died in clashes with militants in...

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30 Al Qaeda Militants Killed

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.14.2012

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SANAA, Yemen — Government troops backed by warplanes and heavy artillery pounded al-Qaida positions in southern Yemen on Sunday, killing at leas...

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Airstrikes Reportedly Kill Al Qaeda Fighters

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ | Posted 05.10.2012

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SANAA, Yemen -- Two airstrikes Thursday in south Yemen killed seven al-Qaida militants, including two top operatives, officials said. Yemeni soldiers,...

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Al Qaeda In Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)

Jonathan Masters | Posted 12.27.2011

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Months of political unrest in Yemen, including a popular effort to unseat longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh, have strained U.S.-Yemeni counterterrorism cooperation and called into question U.S. policy toward the fragile Gulf state.

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U.S. Widens Terror War To Yemen

New York Times | ERIC SCHMITT and ROBERT F. WORTHERIC SCHMITT and ROBERT F. WORTH | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen....

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Yemeni Forces Capture 3 al-Qaida Suspects

AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN'A, Yemen — As Yemen becomes the new front in the war on terror, its leaders want this to be clear: It does not intend to become another Iraq...

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Britain, US to Fund Yemen Anti-Terror Police Unit

AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — The British government said Sunday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. President Barack Obama had agreed to fund a counterterrori...

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Yemen Is Growing Front In al-Qaida Battle

AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The secretive U.S. air strike against suspected al-Qaida in Yemen last week is the latest in what has been a fast-growing campaign ...

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Yemen: 2 al-Qaida Militants Killed In Clash

AP | LEE KEATH | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN'A, Yemen — Yemeni security forces clashed with al-Qaida fighters Monday, killing two, the latest sign the embattled, longtime president is m...

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Former Guantanamo Detainees Fuel Growing al-Qaeda Branch

Washington Post | Sudarsan Raghavan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former detainees of the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have led and fueled the growing assertiveness of the al-Qaeda branch that claimed respons...

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Yemen claims 30 al-Qaida Militants Killed in raid on Qaida hide-outs

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN'A, Yemen — Backed by U.S. intelligence, Yemeni forces struck a series of suspected al-Qaida hideouts Thursday, including a meeting of senior...

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