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Yemeni kidnap 11 soldiers to swap for relative

Agence France-PresseJune 19, 2013 14:01
Yemeni tribesmen have kidnapped 11 soldiers, including two officers, and are demanding the release of a relative convicted of murder, tribal sources said on Wednesday. Members of the Al-Marakisha tribe, in the southern province of Abyan, kidnapped two colonels and nine soldiers, to pressure authorities to release Ahmed al-Marakisha, the sources said. The man's son insisted on his father's release to set the captives free.

US drone kills Pakistani Taliban deputy

Agence France-PresseJune 14, 2013 18:06
A US drone strike killed the deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban Wednesday in the country's lawless tribal northwest, officials said, dealing a major blow to the militant network. Waliur Rehman, the number two in the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) faction, died along with at least five others when an unmanned US drone fired two missiles on a house in North Waziristan district early Wednesday.

Yemen says detains local al Qaeda leader, two soldiers die in raid

June 10, 2013 17:34
ADEN (Reuters) - Yemeni troops detained a local al Qaeda leader in a raid on his hideout in eastern Yemen on Monday, only days after a military operation to foil plans to set up an Islamist state in the area, state news agency Saba said. Saba quoted a military source as saying that two soldiers were killed by gunmen who fired on the raiding force as it approached the farm where Omar Ashour was hiding near the city of Ghail Bawazeer, in the eastern province of Hadramout.

Qaeda chief strikes down merger of Iraq, Syria wings

Agence France-PresseJune 10, 2013 07:32
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has ruled that the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Nusra Front in Syria should operate as separate entities, according to a letter posted on Al-Jazeera television's website. ISI leader Sheikh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had "made a mistake" by announcing a merger between the two radical Islamist groups in the neighbouring Arab states"without consulting us," he said. The merger plan has been "damaging to all jihadists", Zahawari said, adding that "Al-Nusra Front is an independent branch of Al-Qaeda".

String of bombings kill 12 in Iraq market

Agence France-PresseJune 10, 2013 04:33
Three near-simultaneous bombings -- two car bombs and a suicide attack -- killed at least a dozen people in a fruit and vegetable wholesale market north of Baghdad on Monday, officials said. The blasts went off in the predominantly Shiite town of Judaida al-Shat, which lies just west of the restive city of Baquba and remains one of Iraq's most dangerous. The bombings left another 48 people wounded, a police officer and a medic said. The explosions went off as the market was packed with grocery stall owners purchasing goods for the day's trading.

Yemen air strike 'kills five Qaeda militants'

Agence France-PresseJune 9, 2013 14:31
An air strike believed to have been carried out by a US drone in north Yemen killed five presumed members of Al-Qaeda on Sunday, a tribal source said. The air raid targeted a vehicle in the Khab al-Shath area near al-Jawf, the source said, adding that suspected Al-Qaeda member Hassan al-Saleh Huraydan, his brother and three others were killed. Witnesses said that three raids followed the first strike, but they did not provide details about the targets.

Niger residents fear spread of 'war on terror'

Agence France-PresseJune 5, 2013 14:38
People in Niger have begun to express fears of a "war on terror" in their homeland, after unprecedented suicide attacks in the north and a bloody jailbreak in the capital Niamey staged by armed Islamic extremists. "This terrorism that we heard about elsewhere has thus arrived here," Niamey taxi driver Moussa said, referring to the Islamist insurgency that divided neighbouring Mali early last year, prompting foreign armed intervention.

7 Suspected al-Qaeda members killed in drone strikes in Yemen

Agencia EFEJune 1, 2013 15:45
Sanaa, Yemen, Jun 1 (EFE).- At least seven suspected members of the al-Qaeda terrorist group, including one of their leaders, died Saturday in two drone strikes in the mountainous Mahfad region of the southern Yemen province of Abyan, authorities said. According to these officials, cited in Yemen's official Saba news agency, the bombs hit two vehicles in which the purported terrorists were riding through the area, a place of refuge for al-Qaeda members following the military offensive launched last year against the main Abyan cities.

Two drone strikes kill seven in southern Yemen-local official

June 1, 2013 11:15
ADEN (Reuters) - Two drone strikes killed seven suspected al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen on Saturday, a local official said, nine days after U.S. President Barack Obama said he would only use such strikes when a threat was "continuing and imminent". In two separate attacks, militants believed to be linked to al Qaeda killed two senior police officers in the eastern part of the country, a local security official said.

Yemen air raids kill 7 'Qaeda' members: local official

Agence France-PresseJune 1, 2013 09:20
Two air strikes that targeted two vehicles in south Yemen on Saturday killed seven suspected members of Al-Qaeda and wounded two more, a local official said. The deaths came on the same day suspected members of the extremist group shot dead a senior air force officer. Saturday's attacks by the Yemeni air force hit the two vehicles on the outskirts of the town of Mahfad in Abyan province, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official said Al-Qaeda-linked militants were seen evacuating the casualties and transferring them to a local medical centre.
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