The Daily Mail: Flights from Yemen to the UK have been banned in a new crackdown aimed at increasing border security, Gordon Brown announced today. Two new terror watch lists will also be created as part of the...
Al Jazeera: The United Nations security council has added the Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the ArabianPeninsula to its list of outlawed organisations. Two of the group's purported leaders, Nasser al-Wahayshi and...
Daily Star Lebanon: By Agence France Presse (AFP) Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - Powered by TEHRAN: Iran’s Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said Tuesday that Western warships stationed in the Gulf are the “best...
Yemeni rebels, operating in the north of the country, have posted a video of their leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, showing him in apparent good health. Officials in Yemen had claimed Mr Houthi had been seriously injured in...
DUBAI - The chief of Shiite rebels in northern Yemen appeared in a video posted on the Internet on Friday denying his own death in a militaryair strike in December, as claimed by the government. 'All these allegations are fabricated and baseless,' Abdul Malek al-Huthi said in the video in response...
Washington, January 22: Yemen's emergence as a hotbed for Al-Qaeda militants has not come as a surprise, top US General David Petraeus said Thursday, adding he had been concerned about the country for some years. Al-Qaeda in the ArabianPeninsula (AQAP) has...
This piece is part of a package of security and risk stories and factboxes before Jan 28 meetings in London to discuss Afghanistan and Yemen. By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent REUTERS - Al Qaeda is just one of the pressures stoking instability in Yemen, an Arab state verging on collapse in a...
WASHINGTON: Identifying al-Qaeda in the ArabianPeninsula as a common enemy, the US today said it would provide more security and developmentaid to Yemen to combat the growing threat from the terrornetwork, but asked the country to show results for uninterrupted flow of assistance. "This is a...
Next week's "high-level" international summit on Yemen is likely to follow a pattern familiar to those who have watched countless similar conferences on the Somalia crisis in years past. High-minded dignitaries will fly into London from around the world, millions in aid will be pledged and a...
SAN'A, Yemen — In nearly a decade of rebuilding its terrornetwork here, Al Qaeda has put down deep roots, a move that is now complicating U.S.-backed efforts to battle the group. Unlike other chapters of the global terror network, Yemen's Al Qaeda in the ArabianPeninsula is a...
SANAA (AFP) – Yemen stopped granting entry visas on arrival at airports on Thursday to prevent militants from entering the country, widening its dragnet against an Al-Qaeda cell believed behind a spate of global attacks. The measure comes amid a military crackdown on Al-Qaeda in the Arabian...
