Yemeni police arrested two men wearing explosive belts just hours after a suicide attack on a battalion killed 96 soldiers, a security official said Tuesday. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack.
Battles broke out on Sunday night in Beirut, after a Sunni cleric was shot down by the army. Many fear the Syrian conflict could be spilling over into neighbouring Lebanon. Meanwhile, Egyptians go to the polls to choose a new president. Voters want their next leader to address basic issues, such as security, food, and jobs. Finally, our correspondent reports from southern Yemen, where al Qaeda has established a new base.
Yemen's president Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi vowed Monday to press on with the "war on terror" after at least 96 people were killed in an attack in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa, for which al-Qaeda claimed credit.
Marc Perelman meets Ali Soufan, former FBI special agent and expert on Yemen. They discuss the role of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Ali Soufan explains why he believes the Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda is probably the most dangerous of the whole group.
Two apparent US drone attacks killed at least 10 suspected al-Qaeda militants in Yemen Saturday, while Yemeni government forces killed at least 15 others in a continued assault on insurgents in the southern part of the country.
The government calls it burgeoning reform, the opposition “a shame”. Syria votes in parliamentary elections. In Egypt an upsurge in violence taints what many are calling the transition to democracy ahead of the presidential election, and we look at the supermodel playing a temptress in a spy movie set in Dubai.
A French security official working for energy company Total was wounded and a Yemeni soldier killed when suspected al Qaeda-linked gunmen attacked their vehicle in the eastern province of Sayun on Tuesday. The Frenchman is in a stable condition.
A Frenchman with the International Committee of the Red Cross was kidnapped on his way to the airport in Yemen on Saturday, an ICRC spokeswoman said. No contact has yet been made with his captors.
In the south of Yemen, the town of Jaar is now under Sharia law. Our reporters travelled undercover to Jaar, which is controlled by the fighters of Ansar al-Sharia ("The Partisans of Sharia"), an al Qaeda affiliate.
When last year's Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a 32-year-old Yemeni mother-of-three named Tawakkol Karman, few were more surprised than the recipient herself. Today, four months after her Nobel Prize, Karman is an internationally sought-after speaker.
