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Al Qaeda in Yemen claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo attack

Al Qaeda in Yemen claims responsibility for Charlie Hebdo attack

Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has released a video claiming responsibility for last week's deadly attack by two gunmen on the offices of the satirical…

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Yemen Al-Qaeda Formed, Backed by US: Ansarullah

Yemen Al-Qaeda Formed, Backed by US: Ansarullah

A spokesman for Yemen's Shiite Ansarullah movement blamed the US for bringing al-Qaeda fighters into Yemen, saying intelligence services of the US and…

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Yemen president appoints police chiefs close to Shiite militia, Saleh

Yemen president appoints police chiefs close to Shiite militia, Saleh

Yemeni President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi has appointed top security officials known for their close ties to Shiite militiamen who have overrun the capit…

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12 al-Qaeda suspects go on trial in Yemen

12 al-Qaeda suspects go on trial in Yemen

Amanat Sanaa's criminal prosecution team on Tuesday (January 13th) referred to court the files of 12 al-Qaeda gunmen, including the primary suspect in…

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Presidential mediators arrive in Yemen's flashpoint Maarib

Presidential mediators arrive in Yemen's flashpoint Maarib

A presidential mediation team has arrived in Yemen's eastern Maarib province to "look into means of defusing tension" between Shiite Houthi militants…

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Pro-Houthi commander named Yemen's special forces chief

Pro-Houthi commander named Yemen's special forces chief

Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi on Monday appointed a man affiliated with his country's Shiite Houthi movement as the new commander of Yemen'…

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Iranian to stand trial in Yemen on charges of spying for Israel

Iranian to stand trial in Yemen on charges of spying for Israel

Yemeni authorities announced yesterday that they arrested a person who holds the Iranian citizenship in the southern Hadramaut province on charges of…

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Al-Qaida in Yemen urges local and international jihad

Al-Qaida in Yemen urges local and international jihad

The al-Qaida offshoot that masterminded the bloody rampage in France has been the most active of the terror network’s branches in trying to strike…

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 Thousands Protest in Yemen Against President and Shiite Rebels

Thousands Protest in Yemen Against President and Shiite Rebels

Thousands of people have demonstrated in Yemen's capital to demand both the ouster of Shiite Houthi rebels who control the city as well as the coun…

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Member Of Al Qaeda In Yemen Says Group Directed Charlie Hebdo Attack

Member Of Al Qaeda In Yemen Says Group Directed Charlie Hebdo Attack

(AP) — Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula directed the attack against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris "as revenge for the honor…

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Sources: Suspect sought in Paris attack had trained in Yemen

Sources: Suspect sought in Paris attack had trained in Yemen

The sources said Said Kouachi, 34, was in Yemen for a number of months training with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), one of the group's…

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Cherif Kouachi 'met jihadist terrorists in Yemen'

Cherif Kouachi 'met jihadist terrorists in Yemen'

The Paris prosecutor has given more details about what authorities knew of the two brothers who carried out the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo offic…

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Al-Qaeda in Yemen says it's responsible for Paris attack

Al-Qaeda in Yemen says it's responsible for Paris attack

Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility on Friday for the terrorist massacre at a Paris satirical weekly, drawing attention to a deadl…

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Al-Qaeda has become stronger than before  in Yemen, Analyst

Al-Qaeda has become stronger than before in Yemen, Analyst

The Yemeni political activist Jamal Al-Awadhi said to YemenOnline that al-Qaeda attacks increased in different Yemeni provinces than ever because&n…

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UN Security Council strongly condemns Yemen  bomb attack

UN Security Council strongly condemns Yemen bomb attack

The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned "in the strongest terms" the bomb attack against the Police Academy in Sanaa, Yemen.…

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Yemeni TV Correspondent First Journalist Killed in 2015

Yemeni TV Correspondent First Journalist Killed in 2015

Before Wednesday’s deadly attack on the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris, Khalid Mohammed al-Washali, a local Yemeni TV correspondent, beca…

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Yemen tribes in Mareb province  preparing to ward off Houthi offensive: sources

Yemen tribes in Mareb province preparing to ward off Houthi offensive: sources

Tribes from Yemen’s Ma’rib province have begun preparations to repel fighters loyal to the Houthi movement attempting to take control of the oil-ri…

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40 killed and wounded in Yemen police college blast

40 killed and wounded in Yemen police college blast

 A car bomb exploded outside a police college in Yemen's capital Sanaa early on Wednesday, killing around 40 people and wounding more than 50…

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Houthi militants force head of Yemen official newspaper to resign

Houthi militants force head of Yemen official newspaper to resign

The Yemen Ministry of Information confirmed that the al-Thawra daily official newspaper  Faisal Makram "wrote his resignation" under the threa…

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Yemen presidential advisors in Saada meet Houthi leader

Yemen presidential advisors in Saada meet Houthi leader

A handful of advisors of Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi have arrived in the northern Saada province, a stronghold of Yemen's Shiite Houth…

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