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... Yemeni officials. The report said four Hellfire missiles were fired at a wedding procession of 11 vehicles on Dec. 12, 2013, in Radda in southern Yemen, killing at least 12 men and wounding at least 15 others, six of them seriously. The report said the procession "may have included members ...
Updated 6:25 p.m. EDT: The Associated Press reported earlier Monday that an explosion and gunfire was heard near the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital of Sanaa. Mohammed al-Mawri, an official at the Yemeni Interior Minister's office said the believed explosion was fireworks from a ...
For more on the threat posed by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, Gregory Johnsen from Princeton University, a former Fulbright scholar in Yemen, joins Margaret Warner to discuss U.S.-Yemeni government relations and possible unintended consequences of drone strikes in that country.
... Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP. The Yemeni government objected to today's U.S. order, but did cite specific intercepted threats. RAJEH BADI, Yemeni government spokesman (through interpreter): There were attempts to control key cities in Yemen. The plot was planned by al-Qaida for the 27th day ...
HARI SREENIVASAN: A powerful car bomb in Yemen today narrowly missed killing the country's defense minister, as he drove through the capital city. At least a dozen other people were killed in the explosion as it struck the last vehicle in the convoy. Nearby, the force of the blast ...
... the country within two days to go into exile into -- in Ethiopia. Saleh's aides announced that today, amid fears that his continued presence in Yemen would incite new violence. The former leader had been in the U.S. recently for medical treatment. He returned to Yemen on Saturday for ...
... that al-Qaida and counter-terrorism is not Yemen's most pressing issue. If Hadi is seen as focusing on this to the exclusion of Yemen's numerous other problems he could quickly lose the little domestic support he currently enjoys. Yemen will always have a seemingly more pressing problem ...
... post: Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-level U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaida, was killed in Yemen Friday, according to U.S. and Yemeni officials. He is believed to have been the target of a U.S.-airstrike on his convoy in a mountainous area of Yemen, but ...
Yemen's embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, made a surprise return to his country Friday after three months in Saudi Arabia, where he was undergoing medical treatment after being seriously wounded in a rocket attack on his presidential palace. After months of violent protests in Yemen and calls for him ...
... charge. The vice president has not been exercising the control that many would like to have seen him exercising. RAY SUAREZ: So, who is running Yemen? CHRISTOPHER BOUCEK: It's the president's family who is still running Yemen. The remnants of the regime are still within the military and ...
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