Al-Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying it was ordered by the Islamist militant group\’s leadership for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, according to a video posted on YouTube.
At least one hostage was seized in a town northeast of Paris on Friday during a huge manhunt for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people at a satirical weekly, according to a police source.
Al-Qaeda\’s wing in Yemen on Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on Yemen\’s powerful Shi\’ite Houthi group that killed at least 47 people.
Seventeen Yemeni Jews were airlifted to Israel in a covert operation. Four of the Jews were flown directly from Yemen to Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Wednesday, Haaretz reported. The rest were taken clandestinely from Buenos Aires after being smuggled to the Argentinian capital by a group of Satmar hasidim in August 2011, living in the Satmar community there. The Satmars have been involved in smuggling Jews out of Yemen for several years, according to Haaretz
Luke, an American photographer and editor for an English-language local newspaper, lives in one of the tall historic buildings in the city. With increased kidnappings of Westerners in Yemen, he also lives in fear.
The Obama administration has in recent weeks suffered a 1-2-3 scandal outbreak.
\”Mrs. Michele Obama: Tell us can your husband sleep after so many innocent people were killed by his drones?\” read a banner held by a Yemeni activist at a recent rally to protest increasing American drone strikes in Yemen.
Yemeni and US embassy officials went on high alert recently after Al-Qa\’ida offered a bounty to kill US ambassador to Sana\’a Gerald Feierstein or any American soldier in the country.
Al-Qaida in Yemen has placed a bounty on the head of the U.S. ambassador in Sanaa, Gerald Feierstein.
Last week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Gulf Cooperation Council Secretary-General Abdullatif Bin Rashid Al Zayani visited Yemen to mark the first anniversary of the deal that saw former President Ali Abdullah Saleh relinquish power to his longtime deputy, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi, in exchange for immunity from prosecution.
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