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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), viewed by Washington as the extremist network’s most risky branch, has taken advantage of the chaos to seize the southern port city of Mukalla, capital of the vast desert Hadramawt province.

He said he had given orders to hunt down the assailants, who have not been identified. Al-Bakry, who oversees the Aden governorate, was in the building at the time, meeting with high-profile military and security officials.

The conflict has also pitted Houthi rebels and allied military units against a range of local opponents, southern secessionists, Sunni Islamists and al-Qaeda militants.

Ahmed said that all political parties in Yemen should come to an agreement.

Amid rising concerns about the proposed Iran nuclear deal, the Obama administration is struggling in its efforts to drum up support for it and demonizing those who dare oppose it.

They are the victims of Iranian terrorism, and now they’re speaking out against President Obama’s Iranian nuclear agreement.

Chuck Schumer scrambling to abandon the president, is whether an Obama veto will hold. He and his Israeli counterparts believe communities like these would be at greater risk if the Iran deal passed and Iran had more capital to fund terrorism in the region, including Hamas. An...

Yemen’s al-Qaida branch has exploited the chaos in this embattled country to capture three towns near the southern port city of Aden where pro-government forces have been advancing against Shiite rebels in recent weeks, officials said Thursday.

Kerry also warned that the U.S. could lose its military standing in the world should Congress reject the deal and insist its allies concede to U.S. sanctions on Iran.

“Overstating the case for the agreement belies the gravity of the issue and does more to breed distrust than win support“, the former New York mayor, now reinstalled at the helm of his media empire, said August. 11 in a Bloomberg column. First, Iran is unlikely to...

The Saudi-led coalition ground force fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen has captured the capital of Abyan province, after launching preliminary airstrikes and a series of coordinated attacks on strategic locations still held by the rebels.

The Saudi-led Arab coalition struck Houthi forces and weapons in a number of Yemeni cities on Friday including Hodeida where more than a dozen of the Houthis were killed.

In conflicting reports, officials in Yemen’s government claim that Egypt has sent ground troops to fight alongside government forces, while independent journalists and analysts say that there are no Egyptian soldiers present.

She is now within the palms of French authorities and will probably be returned to France “within the coming hours”, in response to a press release early Friday from the presidential Elysee palace.

At a news conference with Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid al-Attiyah, Lavrov said: “this position is a violation of worldwide law and represents an obstacle on the road to forming a united front to fight terrorism, including Islamic State and al-Nusra Front”.