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Large arms shipment intercepted off Yemen, Iran eyed as source

January 28, 2013 21:15
* Surface-to-air missiles among weapons intercepted * Eight Yemenis on board ship at time of Jan. 23 seizure By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Yemeni forces intercepted a ship on Jan. 23 carrying a large cache of weapons - including surface-to-air missiles - that U.S. officials suspect were being smuggled from Iran and destined for Yemeni insurgents, officials said on Monday.

UPDATE 2-Suicide bomber kills 11 Yemeni soldiers

January 28, 2013 11:30
(Updates number of troops killed, wounded) SANAA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 11 Yemeni soldiers on Monday after troops backed by tanks attacked an al Qaeda stronghold following the collapse of talks to free three Western hostages, local officials and residents said. Tackling lawlessness in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, which flanks the world's biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia, is an international priority. The United States views Yemen as a frontline in its struggle against al Qaeda.

Yemeni troops and tanks attack al Qaeda stronghold

January 28, 2013 08:30
SANAA, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Yemeni troops backed by tanks attacked an al Qaeda stronghold on Monday after talks to free three Western hostages collapsed, an official and residents said, leading to a retaliatory militant raid that killed three soldiers. Tackling lawlessness in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, which flanks the world's biggest oil exporter Saudi Arabia, is an international priority. The United States views Yemen as a frontline in its struggle against al Qaeda.

Yemen says regional al Qaeda's deputy head is dead -state agency

January 24, 2013 14:45
SANAA, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A Saudi national who was second-in-command of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has died after being wounded by security forces in November, Yemen's state news agency reported on Friday, citing an unnamed senior security official. Said al-Shehri was wounded in an operation carried out by the security apparatus on Nov. 28 in the northern province of Saada, the source, a member of Yemen's supreme security committee, told the news agency.

U.S. drone kills six suspected al Qaeda members in Yemen-sources

January 23, 2013 18:00
* Yemen is home to one of most active al Qaeda wings * Four attacks on militants in four days * Discontent over drone attacks growing SANAA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - At least six suspected al Qaeda members were killed in a U.S. drone strike in northern Yemen on Wednesday, local sources said, in an escalating campaign in which at least 20 Islamist militants have died this week.

US drone kills four al Qaeda members in Yemen

January 22, 2013 15:15
A U.S. drone killed four suspected al Qaeda militants on Tuesday in a strike on their car in northern Yemen as they drove away from a militant training ground, according to tribal sources and local officals, the fourth such attack in four days.

Al Qaeda-linked militants killed by drone strike in Yemen

January 20, 2013 06:31
* Tribesmen block road in protest at drones * New president has openly backed such strikes * Al Qaeda wing has attempted attacks on U.S. targets SANAA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - At least three suspected al Qaeda militants have been killed by a drone strike in central Yemen, tribal sources and the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.

Yemen raid nets two al Qaeda militants-security sources

January 14, 2013 13:30
SANAA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Yemeni security forces arrested two al Qaeda militants near the capital Sanaa on Monday, seizing explosives, suicide bomb vests, assassination manuals and lists of targets for attack, security sources said. Although a third man escaped the raid on a hideout at Jader village, 14 km (9 miles) north of Sanaa, the arrests are likely to be seen as progress in government attempts to stem a spate of killings of security officials by suspected militants.

Gunmen kill Yemeni who mediated with al Qaeda- sources

January 10, 2013 12:15
ADEN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A Yemeni tribal leader who mediated between the government and al Qaeda was killed at a checkpoint ambush in Abyan province in the country's south on Thursday, official and tribal sources said. Al Mullah Zabahra was known for helping the government free individuals kidnapped by al Qaeda, including the Saudi consulate's deputy consul, who was abducted in the port city of Aden last year. "The tribal leader was killed in an ambush, he was in his car when the armed men shot him," said the official source.
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