Topic - Yemen

• 

  Yemenis rubber-stamp VP as new president

  Yemenis voted Tuesday to instate their U.S.-backed vice president as the new head of state, tasked with steering the country out of a crisis created by an anti-government uprising that has raged for a year.

• Yemen faced with easy decision at polls with 1 candidate

  Yemenis voted Tuesday to install their U.S.-backed vice president as the new head of state, tasked with steering the country out of a crisis created by an anti-government uprising that has raged for a year.

• Al Qaeda in Yemen confirms senior leader's death

  Yemen's branch of al Qaeda has confirmed the death of a senior leader, who officials say died in a bloody family feud.

• World Scene

  The spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians said Monday that Turkey's new constitution should grant equal rights to minorities in the country and safeguard religious freedoms.

• 

  Obama endorses vice president before election

  President Obama threw his support behind Yemen's vice president just days before an election expected to enshrine him as the new leader of a country the U.S. sees as crucial to the fight against al Qaeda.

• World Scene

  A senior al Qaeda leader in Yemen was killed in a family feud Thursday, and an ensuing gunbattle between his followers and opponents left 16 other militants dead, a security official and tribal elders said.

• 

  Al Qaeda embrace of al-Shabab seen as driven by desperation

  Al Qaeda's decision to formally extend its terrorist franchise to what once was a nationalist movement in Somalia may be only a desperate joining of hands to prop up two militant groups that are losing popular support and facing increasingly deadly military attacks, analysts said.

• Feds release new details about underwear bomber

  A Nigerian who pleaded guilty to trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane began his path to terrorism with a text message from a top al-Qaida figure in Yemen, the U.S. government said Friday in a court filing that discloses new details about their relationship.

• Arab Spring shot wins World Press Photo award

  Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.

• List of World Press Photo winners

  A list of winners of the 2010 World Press Photo contest:

• 

  U.S.'s Africom trains host nation's forces to battle terrorism

  U.S. Africa Command has been quietly battling terrorism on the African continent, relying heavily on special forces. But amid a shrinking Pentagon budget and increased use of special forces in Afghanistan under a new military strategy, Africom may have fewer resources to counter a growing terrorism threat.

• HOLMES: Preventing the rise of safe havens for terrorists

  President Obama's decision to accelerate the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan begs the question: What if the country again becomes a safe haven for terrorists? A recently leaked U.S. Army report for NATO shows that the Taliban believe they are winning and need only outlast us to regain control. If that happens, Afghanistan could become the terrorist safe haven it was before our 2001 intervention.

• 

  SEXTON: Drawbacks of drone war mania

  We've set the stage for even more undeclared, borderless conflicts. America's lethal drone strikes have been a massive intelligence success, but we may soon recognize their expansion as a major policy failure. While essential in the fight against al Qaeda, drone attacks effectively have normalized lethal cross-border attacks as a tool of national security.

• 

  4 Britons admit London Stock Exchange bomb plot

  Four British men fueled by the words of a U.S.-born Muslim cleric pleaded guilty Wednesday to involvement in an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to spread terror and cause economic damage by bombing the London Stock Exchange at Christmastime.

• U.S. airstrikes kill 4 al Qaeda militants in Yemen

  U.S. airstrikes targeting leaders from Yemen's active al Qaeda branch killed four suspected militants, including a man suspected of involvement in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, officials said Tuesday.

More Stories →