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Yemen’s al-Qaida claims credit for Aden attack

Associated Press

Yemeni mourners carry the coffins of soldiers who were killed by suspected al-Qaida militants at a checkpoint in Hadramawt province, during their funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, March 30, 2014. Suspected al-Qaida militants attacked a security checkpoint in southeastern Yemen, first sending in a suicide car bomb then storming it, officials said on March 24. They killed 22 troops and left only one survivor, who pretended he was dead. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Militants attack army in southern Yemen, kill 8

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Guantanamo Bay detention camp. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. may free suspected Osama bin Laden bodyguard at Gitmo

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Car bomb in Yemen’s port city of Aden kills 1

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

2 Yemen soldiers killed in attack on army base

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

A Yemeni graffiti artist paints faces of victims of the al-Qaida militant attack that occurred in the Defense ministry complex on Dec. 5, 2013, on a wall during an &quot;anti-terrorism&quot; campaign in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, March 6, 2014. Several Yemeni security officials recently said that al-Qaida has spread to operate in every province of the country of more than 25 million. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the Yemen branch is known, has demonstrated its capabilities with a sophisticated and brutal attack in December on the Defense Ministry in the capital, Sanaa, that killed more than 50 people. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Al-Qaida in Yemen kills comrade accused of spying

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, Himyar al-Qadhy, whose brother Adnan, was killed in 2012 by U.S drone strike east of Sanaa, Yemen, points to what he says is the rocket that killed his brother, a Yemeni army brigadier suspected of involvement in a militant attack in 2008 against the US Embassy in Sanaa. The brother denies that Adnan was a member of the al-Qaida. The portrait on the wall shows his late brother. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

In Yemen, a woman’s life entangled with al-Qaida

By HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, a Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. A U.S. military drone strike in Yemen in December 2013 may have killed up to a dozen civilians on their way to a wedding and injured others, including the bride, a human rights group says. U.S. officials say only members of al-Qaida were killed, but they have refused make public the details of two U.S. investigations into the incident.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Report: US drone may have killed dozen civilians

By KIMBERLY DOZIER - Associated Press

Yemen rebels clash with troops, 13 dead

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Yemen gunmen kill 4 soldiers, commander

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Detained Yemeni seeks release after 12 years

By DAVID DISHNEAU - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

PIPES: The Middle East mightily resists efforts to prod modernization

By Daniel Pipes

A Yemeni police vehicle patrols outside of the Iranian ambassador's residence in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. Iranian state television announced that Ali Asghar Asadi, Iran's economic attache in Sanaa, was "martyred." (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Drive-by shooting kills Iranian diplomat in Yemen: officials

Associated Press

In this Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, file photo, Iranian female demonstrators burn a representation of U.S. flag, and a caricature of President Barack Obama, in an annual state-backed rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, commemorating 33rd anniversary of the embassy takeover by militant students. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Group run by al Qaeda terrorist invited to brief Dems on drone policy

By Alana Goodman - Washington Free Beacon

Smoke rises after an explosion at the Defense Ministry complex in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Military and hospital officials in Yemen said a large explosion at the Defense Ministry complex in the center of the capital, Sanaa, has wounded tens of people, many of them seriously. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hamoud)

Yemen defense ministry rocked by suicide bomber, gunfire

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A U.S. drone targets Taliban combatants assembled for a funeral. Rules of engagement at the cemetery prevented the U.S. from taking a shot.

Kill team: Obama war chiefs widen drone death zones

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Yemeni demonstrators climb the gates of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen, on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, during a protest against a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Officials: U.S. Embassy in Yemen not attacked

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Sandra Zea (right), with her husband, Albaro Zea, speaks to reporters outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Central Islip, N.Y., following the arraignment of their son, Marcos Alonzo Zea, on Friday, Oct. 18, 2013. The younger Mr. Zea was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty to charges that he sought to join an al Qaeda group in Yemen. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)

New York man charged with trying to support al Qaeda terrorists

By Frank Eltman - Associated Press

** FILE ** An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan on a moonlit night in January 2010. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

Drone strikes plummet as U.S. seeks more human intelligence

By Guy Taylor and Kristina Wong - The Washington Times