TEHRAN (FNA)- Six suspected Al-Qaeda militants and three Yemeni soldiers were killed in clashes in Yemen's Eastern region of Hadramout on Monday, the defense ministry said. Last year, the Yemeni army drove Al-Qaeda militants and their allies from some of their Southern strongholds. But the insurgents have since regrouped and mounted attacks on ...

[caption id="attachment_38163" align="alignright" width="180"] File photo shows an al-Qaeda militant in Yemen.[/caption] Yemeni security forces have captured "one of al-Qaeda's most dangerous members" in the southeastern part of the country, a report says. "The arrested terrorist Omar Salem is involved in the assassination of the deputy head of the ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- US missile strikes, including armed drone attacks, have killed dozens of civilians in Yemen as the United States tries to crack down on Al-Qaeda in the country, a prominent human rights organization said on Tuesday. Human Rights Watch detailed in a 96-page report what it said were six "unacknowledged" US military attacks on targets ...

A security official and his bodyguard have been killed in a suspected al-Qaeda attack by two masked gunmen in the south of Yemen, authorities say. Colonel Mohammed Abdullah al-Habashy, a security adviser in Hadramout province, was killed after gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on him while he was at a restaurant with his bodyguard in the city of ...

A Yemeni army colonel has been shot dead by gunmen in the coastal town of al-Mukalla in the country's eastern Province of Hadhramaut. Colonel Abdullah al-Tamimi came under fire on Friday by two armed men on motorcycles as he walked to his car in the Fuah district. The gunmen reportedly fired seven times at the officer, killing him on the spot....

Legal action charity Reprieve says US assassination drone strikes in Yemen are illegal under international law and they are driving people into the arms of al-Qaeda,Press TVreports. The UK-based charity, which also has organizations in the United States, Australia and the Netherlands, organized an event in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday to highlight ...

The leader of al-Qaedas Yemen-based offshoot says the group will soon release jailed extremist militants, days after the United States closed missions in several countries across the Middle East. Nasser al-Wuhayshi made the announcement in a statement issued on Monday on a website used by militants, Reuters reported. Al-Wuhayshi did not mention ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) A Yemeni military official says gunmen believed to be from al-Qaida have killed five soldiers at a checkpoint in a southern province. The official said the attackers surprised the soldiers early Sunday at their checkpoint guarding oil and gas projects in the Radhum area of Shabwa province. The ambush follows a two-week-long spike ...