A suspected Al-Qaeda chief was killed in a new wave of Yemeni air raids against the branch of the global terror network thought to be behind a botched US airliner bombing, an official said on Monday. Jamil Nasser Abdullah al-Ambari, 25, believed to be the leader of Al-Qaeda in southern Abyan province, was one of two militants killed in the ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemen carried out air strikes against what they said were al Qaeda targets in the south for a second day on Monday, and authorities in the north recovered the remains of five people whose identities were being checked. There were no immediate reports of casualties following three strikes in Abyan province, where the government was targeting militants who ...

A senior Yemeni official says his nation's air force launched a second day of strikes against al-Qaida hideouts. Saleh al-Shamsi, deputy governor of the southern province Abyan, said three air strikes were launched Monday. He had no information on the targets but said an ...

SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni authorities have recovered the remains of five people in northern Yemen but do not believe the bodies are of Europeans taken hostage last year, a government official said on Monday. A German family of five and a Briton are missing in Yemen, held by kidnappers who the government believes have links to al Qaeda. "Information so far ...