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Libyans See al Qaeda Hand in Embassy Attack
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Attack by Fringe Group Highlights the Problem of Libya Militias
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US braces for more violence from anti-Muslim film
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Echoes of Iraq: Yemen’s War Against al-Qaeda Takes a Familiar Turn
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Yemenis left with mixed feelings after government troops oust Islamists
Suicide bomber kills 20 police cadets in Yemeni capital
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has carried out two major suicide attacks in the Yemeni capital since mid-May; both targeted security forces.
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Libya’s first post-Gaddafi vote to test Islamists
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As Libya holds post-Gaddafi election, Islamists’ strength to be tested
Zarqawi’s nephew killed in Yemen drone strike
Muhammad Fazi al Harasheh, or Abu Hammam, waged jihad in Iraq in 2003 and 2005, and fought in Yemen for five months before being killed in a strike this spring.
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Yemen says Islamists retreat from southern town
AQAP vows to fight ‘in the cities of the enemy and its capitals’
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said it would begin “quick operations and painful strikes” against the Yemeni state now that the group has lost control of several major strongholds.
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In Yemen, US airstrikes breed anger, and sympathy for al-Qaeda
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Inside an al Qaeda stronghold in Yemen
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Yemeni authorities ‘had been warned of attack on military target’
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Dozens Killed by Bomb in Yemen, Raising Al Qaeda Fears
US drone strike kills 8 AQAP fighters
The strike targeted a convoy of Ansar al Sharia leaders in Jaar in Abyan province.
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US drone attacks in Yemen cause political strain
AQAP overruns Yemeni Army bases, kills 32 soldiers
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters attacked two bases outside of Zinjibar. Forty troops were wounded and at least 28 were captured.
AQAP confirms commander linked to Osama bin Laden killed in drone strike
Mohammed Saeed al Umda, who was killed in the April 22 airstrike in Marib, served as a member of Osama bin Laden’s “special bodyguard” before returning to Yemen to become a military commander.
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Qaeda-linked group frees 73 Yemeni soldiers
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Islamist militants blow up Yemen gas pipeline
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Militants and Politics Bedevil Yemen’s New President
Sudanese al Qaeda fighter killed in Yemen
Bara’a Muhammad Salim al Sudani is said to have fought in Pakistan under al Qaeda military leader Abu Laith al Libi before joining al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
AQAP kills 17 Yemeni troops in southern Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters overran a military checkpoint in Al Milah, and seized two tanks and other weapons from Yemeni troops. Thirteen AQAP fighters were also killed.
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Yemeni Interior Ministry unveils terrorist plans against government facilities
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Al-Qaeda makes ‘alarming’ advances in Yemen, UN envoy warns
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Qaeda Media Arm Steps Up Local Coverage in Yemen
AQAP overruns Yemeni Army base, kills 185 soldiers
A base in Al Koud was overrun. AQAP seized heavy weapons and turned them against the Yemeni troops, and claimed to have captured another 70 soldiers.
AQAP’s Ansar al Sharia executes 3 US ‘spies’
The three men who confessed were reported yesterday to have been beheaded.
AQAP operative killed in recent drone strike in Yemen
Abdul Mun’im Salim al Fatahani, who was involved in the suicide attack on the USS Cole in 2000, was killed in the Jan. 31 strike in Lawdar, according to a Yemeni jihadist.