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US Increases Bounty To $10 Million For Information On Al-Qaeda Leader
The US department is further offering a reward of up to USD 5 million for information leading to the identification or location of Khalid Saeed al-Batarfi, a senior regional leader of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Indian-Origin Man Jailed For 27 Years In US For Funding Al Qaeda
An Indian man who came to the United States to study was sentenced Monday to more than 27 years in prison for sending funds to Al-Qaeda and plotting to kill the federal judge in his trial.
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US Elite Forces In Deadly Raid On Al Qaeda In Yemen
Elite US forces launched a dawn raid against Al-Qaeda in Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 14 suspected jihadists in an operation in which an American soldier also died.
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Drone Strike Kills 3 Al Qaeda Suspects In Yemen: Officials
An apparent US drone strike killed three suspected Al-Qaeda members today in Yemen, including a mid-ranking commander, security officials said.
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35 Dead In Yemen Suicide Attacks Claimed By ISIS
A wave of suicide bombings targeting Yemeni troops killed at least 35 people on Monday in the southeastern city of Mukalla, officials said, in attacks claimed by the ISIS.
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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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Drone Strike Kills 4 Al Qaeda Suspects In Yemen
A presumed US drone strike has killed four suspected members of Al-Qaeda in central Yemen, a security official said today.
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Al Qaeda Threatens Saudi Arabia Over Plan to Execute Prisoners
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen threatened the Saudi government over its plan to carry out a mass execution of prisoners, including al Qaeda members, the militant group announced in a statement posted on social media.
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Rare Cyclone Batters War-Torn Yemen
A rare tropical cyclone has slammed into Yemen, triggering heavy flooding and causing "enormous" damage in a region of the war-racked country dominated by Al-Qaeda, a senior official said today.
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Dispute Between Al-Qaida and the Islamic State Has Devolved to Name-Calling
In a new 26-minute-long video statement, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said the Islamic caliphate declared by the Islamic State was illegitimate, dismissively referring to that militant organization as "Baghdadi's' group," a reference to its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Al Qaeda in Yemen Claims Killing of 'Sorcerers'
Al-Qaeda in Yemen claimed on today to have killed four men suspected of practicing witchcraft and sorcery in an area controlled by the jihadists.
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Yemen's Qaeda Denies Having Held Briton Rescued by UAE
Al-Qaeda in Yemen has denied it was holding a British hostage who the United Arab Emirates said it had rescued from the jihadists this week, according to a statement posted online.
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Bombing, Heavy Fighting Break Yemen Truce: Residents
Saudi-led air strikes and heavy shelling between warring factions shook several cities in Yemen on Saturday, residents said, violating a United Nations humanitarian truce which took effect just before midnight.
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Arrested Brothers Linked to Islamic State Bombing in Kuwait, Says Saudi Arabia
Saudi authorities have arrested three brothers linked to a suicide bombing by a Saudi man on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in neighboring Kuwait last month, Saudi state news agency SPA reported today.
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Alert in Airports Across India for MERS, Other Respiratorial Diseases
An alert has been sounded at all airports to screen passengers especially from Middle East and South Korea, for Middle East Corona Virus (MERS-Cov), a kind of deadly respiratory disease.
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US Increases Bounty To $10 Million For Information On Al-Qaeda Leader
The US department is further offering a reward of up to USD 5 million for information leading to the identification or location of Khalid Saeed al-Batarfi, a senior regional leader of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
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Indian-Origin Man Jailed For 27 Years In US For Funding Al Qaeda
An Indian man who came to the United States to study was sentenced Monday to more than 27 years in prison for sending funds to Al-Qaeda and plotting to kill the federal judge in his trial.
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US Elite Forces In Deadly Raid On Al Qaeda In Yemen
Elite US forces launched a dawn raid against Al-Qaeda in Yemen on Sunday, killing at least 14 suspected jihadists in an operation in which an American soldier also died.
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Drone Strike Kills 3 Al Qaeda Suspects In Yemen: Officials
An apparent US drone strike killed three suspected Al-Qaeda members today in Yemen, including a mid-ranking commander, security officials said.
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35 Dead In Yemen Suicide Attacks Claimed By ISIS
A wave of suicide bombings targeting Yemeni troops killed at least 35 people on Monday in the southeastern city of Mukalla, officials said, in attacks claimed by the ISIS.
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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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Drone Strike Kills 4 Al Qaeda Suspects In Yemen
A presumed US drone strike has killed four suspected members of Al-Qaeda in central Yemen, a security official said today.
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Al Qaeda Threatens Saudi Arabia Over Plan to Execute Prisoners
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen threatened the Saudi government over its plan to carry out a mass execution of prisoners, including al Qaeda members, the militant group announced in a statement posted on social media.
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Rare Cyclone Batters War-Torn Yemen
A rare tropical cyclone has slammed into Yemen, triggering heavy flooding and causing "enormous" damage in a region of the war-racked country dominated by Al-Qaeda, a senior official said today.
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Dispute Between Al-Qaida and the Islamic State Has Devolved to Name-Calling
In a new 26-minute-long video statement, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said the Islamic caliphate declared by the Islamic State was illegitimate, dismissively referring to that militant organization as "Baghdadi's' group," a reference to its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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Al Qaeda in Yemen Claims Killing of 'Sorcerers'
Al-Qaeda in Yemen claimed on today to have killed four men suspected of practicing witchcraft and sorcery in an area controlled by the jihadists.
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Yemen's Qaeda Denies Having Held Briton Rescued by UAE
Al-Qaeda in Yemen has denied it was holding a British hostage who the United Arab Emirates said it had rescued from the jihadists this week, according to a statement posted online.
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Bombing, Heavy Fighting Break Yemen Truce: Residents
Saudi-led air strikes and heavy shelling between warring factions shook several cities in Yemen on Saturday, residents said, violating a United Nations humanitarian truce which took effect just before midnight.
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Arrested Brothers Linked to Islamic State Bombing in Kuwait, Says Saudi Arabia
Saudi authorities have arrested three brothers linked to a suicide bombing by a Saudi man on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in neighboring Kuwait last month, Saudi state news agency SPA reported today.
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Alert in Airports Across India for MERS, Other Respiratorial Diseases
An alert has been sounded at all airports to screen passengers especially from Middle East and South Korea, for Middle East Corona Virus (MERS-Cov), a kind of deadly respiratory disease.
