Topic: Yemen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An accused leader of the Somali militant group al Shabaab captured by U.S. forces and charged in a federal court sought to expand the group's operations beyond his home country, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, believed ...
What with all the Washington pundits swashbuckling before Tuesday's election about why President Obama should and shouldn't rush back to the battlefront, you'd think national security might have been a bigger campaign issue. Besides the operational costs of the surge in Afghanistan ...
The Obama administration plans to transfer a Guantanamo detainee to Yemen despite its ban on the repatriations due to security concerns in the Arab country, The Washington Post reported Saturday.The administration's January decision on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the prison camp where nearly ...
US boosts humanitarian aid to key counter-terror ally YemenThe Obama administration is boosting assistance to Yemen as it moves to strengthen ties with the key ally in the war on terrorism and promote democratic reform there.The White House announced Thursday that President ...
Obama administration officials say a classified Pentagon report concludes that of 560 detainees transferred from the prison at Guantanamo bay to other countries, about one in five has engaged in, or is suspected of engaging in, terrorist or militant activity.. And my ...
The White House said on Tuesday it had decided not to transfer any more Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Yemen for now, following a plot to bomb a US airliner apparently planned in the Arab country.The Obama administration has been under intense pressure ...
The United States and its international partners must " use all appropriate measures" to keep Yemen from becoming a "failed state," the US Senate said in a recently approved resolution.The non-binding measure, which lawmakers approved unanimously on Friday, warns that "instability and ...
With Guantanamo future uncertain, Yemen says no progress toward releasing 100 detaineesU.S. A deal with Yemen could dramatically shrink the inmate population before the Bush administration is forced to explain to federal judges why the detainees are being held.State Department spokesman Sean ...
ON , the destroyer USS Cole hove into port at Aden in Yemen for routine refuelling. Suicide bombers inside the boat detonated a cache of explosives, blasting a 20-metre hole in the destroyer's hull and killing 17 of its crew. Now some ...
ON , the destroyer USS Cole hove into port at Aden in Yemen for routine refuelling. Suicide bombers inside the boat detonated a cache of explosives, blasting a 20-metre hole in the destroyer's hull and killing 17 of its crew. Now some ...
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