US President Barack Obama says al Qaeda is a "shadow of its former self," and does not pose the kind of threat to America that requires tens of thousands of US troops to fight abroad. ...
08:46 AM, Feb 13, 2013
Al Qaida's No 2 in Yemen died of wounds sustained in a US drone attack in 2012 in southern Yemen, the country's official news agency and a security official said on Thursday. Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was wounded in a missile attack in the southern city of Saada on October 28, according to...
08:18 AM, Jan 25, 2013
More than 10 suspected al Qaeda operatives were killed by an explosion in a house in south Yemen where they were making bombs and at least three others died in a drone strike, tribal and official sources said on Sunday. A bomb ripped through a house in the province of al-Bayda on Saturday night, the state news agency Saba and a local official said. ...
07:55 PM, Jan 20, 2013
Al Qaida's branch in Yemen has offered to pay tens of thousands of dollars to anyone who kills the US ambassador in Sanaa or an American soldier in the country. ...
03:59 AM, Dec 31, 2012
Two gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed an intelligence officer in southeastern Yemen on Saturday, security officials said. The officials said the officer, Mutea Baqutian, was on his way to work in Mukalla, capital of Hadramawt province, when the gunmen stopped his car and gunned him down, then fled. ...
09:29 PM, Dec 29, 2012
A top American counter-terrorism official has said that the core of al Qaeda has seriously degraded in South Asia. ...
11:39 AM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: Indias International Friendly against Yemen which was slated to be played on November 14, 2012 in Guwahati stands cancelled. All India Football Federation received an e-mail from the Yemen Football Association on Thursday (November 8) morning that tickets were cancelled due to some problems with the Airlines. 'The Gulf Airlines cancelled their reservations for late notification,' the mail stated. All India Football Federation tried to communicate with the...
05:08 PM, Nov 08, 2012
New York: Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges he plotted to set up a terrorist training camp in the US and provided material suppprt to al-Qaeda during his second appearance in a federal court days after being extradited from the UK. Hamza appeared for his arraignment before US District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan federal court. He was among four terror suspects who...
10:53 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New York: Radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to charges he plotted to set up a terrorist training camp in the US and provided material suppprt to al-Qaeda during his second appearance in a federal court days after being extradited from the UK. Hamza appeared for his arraignment before US District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan federal court. He was among four terror suspects who...
10:53 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Dubai: The Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda urged Muslims on Saturday to step up protests and kill US diplomats in Muslim countries over a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad which it said was another chapter in the "crusader wars" against Islam. Fury about the film, produced in California, swept across the Middle East after Friday prayers, with protesters attacking US embassies. On Tuesday - September11 - an attack on the...
12:15 AM, Sep 16, 2012
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday slammed the anti-Islam video that has triggered waves of anti-US protests in a number of Muslim countries, terming it "disgusting and reprehensible". In a televised speech, Clinton stressed that the US government has nothing to do with the video, Xinhua reported. The secretary of state said there was "no justification" for responding to this video with violence. Clinton urged leaders of other...
11:50 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Sanaa/Cairo: Demonstrators attacked the US embassies in Yemen and Egypt on Thursday in protest at a film they consider blasphemous to Islam and American warships headed to Libya after the death of the US ambassador there in related violence earlier in the week. Hundreds of Yemeni demonstrators broke through the main gate of the heavily fortified compound in eastern Sanaa, shouting "We sacrifice ourselves for you, Messenger of God". Earlier...
02:44 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Sanaa: An airstrike killed al Qaeda's number 2 leader in Yemen along with five others traveling with him in one car on Tuesday, senior Yemeni Defense Ministry officials reported. If confirmed, Saeed al-Shihri's death would be a major blow to the militant group. They said the attack killed al-Shihri, a Saudi national, as the al Qaeda in Yemen deputy left a house in the southern Hadramawt province with his five...
09:12 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Sanaa: An airstrike killed al Qaeda's No 2 leader in Yemen along with six others traveling with him in one car on Monday, US and Yemeni officials said, a major breakthrough for US-backed efforts to cripple the group in the impoverished Arab nation. Saeed al-Shihri, a Saudi national who fought in Afghanistan and spent six years in the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, was killed by a missile after...
01:53 AM, Sep 11, 2012
Aden: A suicide bomber struck at a wake in Yemen's southern city of Jaar overnight, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens more, the defence ministry said, in the deadliest attack since the army declared victory over Islamist militants in June. The bomber appeared to have been targeting the head of a group of tribal fighters that sided with the Yemeni army during an offensive that drove al Qaeda-linked...
03:48 AM, Aug 06, 2012
Hyderabad: Yemen's historic ties with Hyderabad are set to get a boost with the Arab nation planning to set up an honorary consulate in the city. Ausaf Sayeed, India's ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Yemen, said persons of Yemeni origin in Hyderabad had been representing for a full-fledged Yemeni consulate. However, Yemeni authorities were considering setting up only an honorary consulate. An eminent person of Yemeni origin will be...
11:38 AM, Jun 08, 2012
Lucknow: Seeking to fulfil his party's election promises, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday made provisions for unemployment allowance, waiving farm loans and giving laptops to students in his maiden state Budget for 2012-2013. Amidst walkout by BSP, Yadav presented the Budget saying that he has inherited a shattered economy that has been marred by corruption. The Budget proposed no new tax, while listing several incentives for a...
03:50 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Tampa: The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al Qaeda, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al Qaeda ads on Yemeni tribal websites. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Wednesday that experts based at the State Department swapped al Qaeda ads on Yemeni websites bragging about killing Americans with ones showing the deadly impact of al Qaeda tactics on Yemenis...
10:54 AM, May 24, 2012
Sanaa: A suicide bomber in army uniform killed more than 90 soldiers in the heart of the Yemeni capital on Monday and an al Qaeda affiliate threatened more strikes if a US-backed campaign against militants in the front-line state did not stop. The attack, which also wounded more than 200 people, underscored the threat Yemen faces in its fight to dislodge Islamist militants entrenched in the south and threatening vital...
01:39 AM, May 22, 2012
Washington: The revelation that militants sought to attack an airliner with an improved "underwear bomb" in a plot foiled by US and allied authorities shows their determination to build bombs that can pass through airport security, US officials said. The Obama administration said on Monday that authorities in the Middle East recently seized an underwear bomb which they believe al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate had intended to give to a suicide...
08:30 AM, May 08, 2012
