AQAP’s latest edition of Inspire magazine purports to show jihadists how to make car bombs similar to the one used by Faisal Shahzad, who was responsible for the failed May 2010 bombing in Times Square.
An attempt by several militants working in the yard of an al Qaeda commander in Shabwa province to rig a car with explosives went awry.
Five al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters, including two Saudis, died in a premature detonation in Shabwa province. The AQAP operatives were assembling a car bomb when it exploded.
Yemen faces increasing weapons, drugs smuggling problem
Saudis hardened by wars in Syria, Iraq join al Qaeda in Yemen
The US killed a local al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander and his bodyguard in a drone strike yesterday in Al Jawf. Six Shia Houthi rebels and two soldiers were killed during clashes just outside of Sana’a. Human Rights Watch said the military used excessive force during recent protests in Aden that resulted in […]
Saudi Arabia charged eight defendants with providing weaponry and financial funding to al Qaeda in support of terrorist operations inside and outside the kingdom.
The strike killed a local al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula military commander known as Moajab bin Aziz, as well as his bodyguard. The US has launched four drone strikes in Yemen since the beginning of March.
The US killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in a drone strike in the Wadi Abida area of Al Shabwa district in Marib. The two local al Qaeda leaders, identified as Ebad Mobarak Al Shabwani and Ja’afar Mohammad Jaber Al Shabwani, were killed in the strike.
The Yemeni media identified the two AQAP commanders killed in last night’s strike in Marib province as Ebad Mobarak Al Shabwani and Ja’afar Mohammad Jaber Al Shabwani.
Four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters and two Yemeni soldiers were killed as AQAP launched a suicide assault on a military base in Lawdar in Lahj province. Salafists from the Muslim Brotherhood clashed with Shia Houthis in the northern province of Al Jawf; 17 people are reported to have been killed over the […]
Senior al Qaeda militant Mohsen Mansar al Salami will face trial for assassinating a Yemeni military official amid a increasing trend of al Qaeda attacks on security personnel.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula executed a man at dawn today in the city of Al Shajar in Hadramout province. AQAP accused the man of being an “American spy” and displayed his body hanging from a pole at a soccer field. The government is prosecuting an AQAP leader for targeting security personnel.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula executed one of its members in Yemen, accusing the man of cooperating with the Americans in targeting AQAP operatives.
The US killed four al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula fighters, including Ali Juraym, a commander who fought in Iraq, in a drone strike an Al Jawf province. AQAP nearly assassinated the commander of the Second Armored Brigade in an attack in Shabwa province.
An al Qaeda commander in northern Yemen known as Ali Juraym was killed in the strike. He previously fought for al Qaeda in Iraq.
The US killed three al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives in a drone strike in Marib. AQAP cleric and leader Sheikh Ma’moun Abdulhamid Hatem escaped the strike. AQAP killed seven soldiers in an ambush and a policeman in a mortar attack on a police station.
An al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader is said to have been targeted in the strike. Three AQAP operatives, including a wanted commander, are reported to have been killed.
Mainstream UK charities have donated thousands to Islamic group fronted by terror suspect
Twenty-four people are reported to have been killed during clashes between Salafists and Yemeni troops on one side, and Shia Houthi rebels on the other. The fighting took place in Hizm, the provincial capital of Jawf.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula gunned down a general in intelligence in Mukallah, the capital of Hadramout. The UN Security Council approved sanctions against those who prevent the political transition in Yemen; no one has been named to the list, however.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula gunned down a colonel in military intelligence in the town of Ataq in Shabwa province. “Gunmen” kidnapped a female Czech doctor in Sana’a, but then released her shortly afterward.
A terror warning for international flights was issued by the Department of Homeland Security due to intercepted communications from Ibrahim al Asiri, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s master bomb maker. The UN is considering targeted sanctions against former president Saleh and his deputy for disrupting Yemen’s political process.
In Yemen, a woman’s life entangled with al Qaeda
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is thought to have gunned down a Salafist cleric in Hadramout who has been critical of the terror group. Human Rights Watch released a report stating that a drone strike in Rada’a in December 2013 targeted a wedding party and all 12 people killed were likely civilians.
Yemeni security forces foiled an attempted strike on an Aden oil refinery by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operatives, and arrested 27 suspects.
Security forces recaptured Mohammed Ali al Awami, one of 29 prisoners, including 19 al Qaeda operatives, who were freed during last week’s prison break. AQAP launched a complex suicide assault on the central prison in Sana’a to to free the inmates.
Um Hani, who allegedly managed to collect millions of dollars for the terrorist organization in Yemen, is said to have been deported from Yemen.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula assaulted the central prison in Sana’a in a complex attack, killing seven guards and freeing 29 prisoners, including 19 AQAP fighters. Some of the AQAP fighters who have been freed were on death row. A British teacher was kidnapped in Sana’a.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula freed 19 of its operatives in a complex suicide assault on the central prison in Sana’a.