Saudi warns of challenge of Yemen violence
Riyadh (AFP) - Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia has warned that neighbouring Yemen risks sliding towards further violence which could damage regional security, after Shiite rebels overran the capital last week. Prince Saud al-Faisal, the kingdom's Foreign ...
Political conflicts worsening Yemen food security - U.N. agency
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - An escalation of political turmoil in Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world, risks aggravating an already dire food security situation, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday. Shi'ite ...
Al-Qaeda targets Houthis in Yemen
A suicide bomber linked to al-Qaeda drove a car laden with explosives into a hospital used as a base by Yemen's Houthi movement on Sunday, killing at least 15 people, and five more died in an ambush in the south of the country. Militants, tribal and local ...
Al Qaeda-Linked Militants in Yemen Say Fire Rocket Towards U.S. Embassy
(Reuters) - An al Qaeda splinter group said it launched a rocket toward the U.S. embassy in Sanaa on Saturday, wounding several guards, to retaliate for a purported U.S. drone strike in a northern province of Yemen the day before. The U.S. State ...
As America Fights Terror, it Loses More Than it Gains
As the United States ramps up its ‘no boots on the ground’ war against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, the stream of threats emanating from the region appear to grow ever wider and deeper. The emerging U.S. policy of containment and degradation in Iraq and Syria looks very much like a repeat of the fai ...
As America Fights Terror, it Loses More Than it Gains
As the United States ramps up its 'no boots on the ground' war against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, the stream of threats emanating from the region appear to grow ever wider and deeper. The emerging U.S. policy of containment and degradation in Iraq and Syria looks very much like a repeat of the fai ...
Military Drone Operators Can Feel Emotional Strains Of War
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Barack Obama has assured Americans he opposes sending U.S. ground troops to crush Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria — well aware the country is not ready to return to the battlefield with its war wounded still recovering from a decade of conflict. But airmen have been s ...
Madam Secretary Season 1 Episode 2 Recap: Another Benghazi?
TEAR! SHED! GANK! Those sounds you just heard were Madam Secretary Season 1 Episode 2 taking story straight from real life for its second installment of its opening season. The installment, after all, was titled "Another Benghazi." Watch Madam Secretary Season 1 Episode 2 Online It opened on a famil ...
Will the Supreme Court Take Up Mehanna?
Does translating “radical” Arab texts and videos amount to material support for terrorism? That is the question that would face the Supreme Court, should they decide to take up Mehanna v. United States. (For full background and facts on the case, see our extensive prior coverage here.) The basic fac ...
