Yemen's military blamed Al Qaeda for the rocket attack on the Presidential palace in Sanaa on Friday, which killed seven people and left President Ali Abdullah Saleh injured. The statement was made as an Internet posting on Sunday, reported Reuters.
Regarded as one of the most dangerous militants in the world, Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda operative,was killed by a U.S. drone aircraft missile strike in Pakistan, an intelligence official and local media said on Saturday.
Al-Qaeda terrorist and Mumbai terror attack mastermind Ilyas Kashmiri were among nine militants killed in a US drone strike, BBC reported today, quoting residents of South Waziristan tribal region.
There is a possibility of political talks between the U.S. and the Afghan Taliban by the end of this year, if the U.S-led NATO alliance continued to make military advances on the ground, said U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Saturday.
The Yemeni saga of unrest continues with forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh opening fire at protestors demanding an end to his three-decade-old rule in a conflict that has brought the state to the brink of a civil war, a Reuters report said on Friday.
Around 27 police and paramilitary soldiers and up to 40 insurgents were killed in clashes after armed militants entered Pakistan and attacked a police checkpoint.
At least 19 people have been killed this week and multiple explosions rocked the streets of Yemen's capital-Sanaa, with renewed fights between a powerful tribal group and President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces, officials said on Wednesday, reported Reuters.
One policeman was killed when 200 militants crossed into Pakistan’s northwest from Afghanistan and attacked a security check post on Wednesday, reports Reuters quoting police. A local television station reported the death toll at seven.
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A Pakistani journalist who had written about alleged links between the nation’s navy and the al-Qaeda terrorist network was found dead in an abandoned car near the capital city of Islamabad.
The truce between the tribal groups and the forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been broken and this has brought Yemen closer to a civil war.
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's forces killed at least 20 protesters in the city of Taiz on Monday, the Voice of America reported, citing witnesses.
At least 15 demonstrators were killed by Yemen security forces in the southern city of Taiz on Monday, Reuters reported.
Pakistan has decided to launch an offensive military attack in North Waziristan, the main sanctuary for al Qaeda and Taliban on the border with Afghanistan, a local newspaper reported on Monday.
The Yemen-based al Qaeda wing and Islamic militants have taken over the Yemeni coastal town of Zinjibar in south central Yemen, residents of Zinjibar told Reuters on Sunday.
The political crisis has pushed Yemen to the brink of civil war has also cost the economy $ 5 billion and the country requires immediate aid to prevent a meltdown, the country's trade minister said on Saturday.
Yemen's government and armed tribesmen are demanding President Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave power as agreed on Saturday.
Tribal rivalries in Yemen are complicating efforts to reach a power transfer deal, senior U.S. officials told Reuters on Saturday. United States believes that al Qaeda is trying to develop instability in Yemen.
A Yemeni passenger, who tried to force his way into the cockpit of a San Francisco-bound plane while screaming Allah Ho Akbar (Allah is great), pleaded not guilty, Friday, to a charge that he had interfered with a flight crew.
Osama bin Laden and his aides wanted to make a deal with the Pakistani government under which al-Qaeda would not attack Pakistani targets in exchange for a safe haven in the country, according to a report in The New York Times.
Hillary Clinton, the U.S secretary of State on a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday, said Pakistan needs to take decisive steps against Islamist militancy.
U.S. officials said documents seized from Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, show that the dreaded terrorist had planned to cut a deal with the local government - in exchange of amnesty, Laden would refrain from attacking the country.
