Al Qaeda Yemen Branch

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  4 Al Qaeda Members Killed In Suspected US Drone Strike: Officials

  Four members of al Qaeda's Yemen branch, including a local commander, were killed in a suspected US drone strike on a vehicle traveling east of the capital Sanaa, two local officials said on Saturday.

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  US Says It Killed 10 Al Qaeda Terrorists In Yemen April Air Strikes

  The United States killed 10 Al Qaeda terrorists and wounded one in four air strikes in late April, targeting the group's branch in Yemen, a US military statement said on Friday.

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  Al Qaeda's Yemen Unit Claims Responsibility for Charlie Hebdo Attack

  A top leader of Yemen's Al-Qaeda branch has claimed responsibility for last week's attack on a Paris newspaper when two masked gunmen killed 12 people, including much of the weekly's editorial staff and two police officers.

• US Disclosed Failed Attempt to Rescue American in Yemen

  The United States on Thursday disclosed a failed attempt last month to rescue a U.S. citizen held hostage by al Qaeda's Yemen branch, saying he was not present at the targeted location but that other hostages were freed.

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  Al Qaeda in Yemen Denounces Islamic State Group

  Yemen's Al Qaeda branch on Friday denounced the Islamic State group for declaring a caliphate on territory it seized in Syria and Iraq and for aggressively seeking to expand its area of influence.

• US drone kills five al Qaeda suspects in Yemen, strikes intensify

  Five suspected al Qaeda militants were killed in an air strike in eastern Yemen, the Interior Ministry said on Friday, in an escalating campaign against the militant group's Yemeni branch after recent warnings of possible attacks.

• Danger and separation from families for US diplomats

  When the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda placed a bounty on her husband's head, Mary Feierstein learned of it from a friend who called and said, "You must be a mess!"

• Al Qaeda issues English-language advice magazine for militants

  Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Islamist movement's most active branch, has released an English-language magazine advising would-be militants on how to torch parked cars and cause traffic accidents.

• Al Qaeda in Yemen offers bounty for US ambassador

  The Yemen-based branch of Al Qaeda has offered a bounty for anyone who kills the US ambassador to Yemen or an American soldier in the impoverished Arab state, a group that monitors Islamist websites said.

• Two militants killed in US airstrike: Yemen

  A U.S. drone airstrike killed two al Qaeda militants on Monday in a southern town, Yemeni security officials said, the latest in an year-long U.S. offensive against the branch the U.S. considers the violent extremists' most dangerous.

• Al Qaeda urges Muslims to kill US diplomats over anti-Islam film

  The Yemen-based branch of Al Qaeda urged Muslims on Saturday to step up protests and kill US diplomats in Muslim countries over a film denigrating the Prophet Mohammad which it said was another chapter in the "crusader wars" against Islam.

• US hacked Al-Qaeda to undermine propaganda: Hillary Clinton

  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that US experts scored a cyberwarfare coup by hacking into websites run by Al Qaeda's Yemeni branch and changing the message to undermine their propaganda.

• CIA's first American target, al-Awlaki, killed

  Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in Al Qaeda's most active branch, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks in the United States, was killed Friday in the mountains of Yemen, American and Yemeni officials said.