Posts tagged Yemen

President Barack Obama is announcing new measures Tuesday to beef up airline security after an alleged terrorist attempt to destroy a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner on Christmas Day. Fresh off a Hawaiian vacation dominated by news of the incident, Obama scheduled a meeting Tuesday afternoon with... [+]

The U.S. Embassy in Yemen reopened its doors Tuesday after a two-day closure due to threats, even as the Yemeni government maintained that the security situation in the capital had always been under control. The embassy said it shut down because of information of an... [+]

The US and Britain have shut their Yemen embassies after threats from an al-Qaeda offshoot linked to an alleged failed US plane bomb plot. The UK Foreign Office told the BBC its embassy in the capital Sanaa was closed “for security reasons”, hours after the... [+]

US President Barack Obama has for the first time publicly accused an offshoot of al-Qaeda over the alleged Christmas Day bomb plot to blow up a US plane. He said it appeared Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula had armed and trained the accused, 23-year-old... [+]

Following al Qaeda’s statement taking responsibility for the Christmas Day attack on Northwest Flight 253, ABC News reports that two of the bomb plot’s masterminds were former Guantanamo Bay detainees, freed in November 2007 and sent back to their home nation of Saudi Arabia. Guantanamo... [+]