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The United States and Britain announced today they have closed their embassies in Yemen because of security concerns.

A U.S. military commander said on Friday the United States will more than double its nearly $70 million security assistance program for Yemen, where a crackdown is underway on al Qaeda militants believed to be behind a failed plot to blow up a U.S. airliner.

Gordon Brown has called a summit in London to discuss radicalization in Yemen, after the alleged failed bomb attack on a US plane over Detroit. No 10 said the 28 January event had support from Washington and the European Union, and Mr Brown aimed to ...

A man described as "one of al Qaeda's most dangerous members" was arrested in Yemen, the Yemeni military, an embassy official and state-run news agency Saba said.

Yemeni security forces stormed an al-Qaida hide-out Wednesday in a principle militant stronghold in the country's west, setting off clashes, officials said, as a security chief vowed to fight the group's powerful local branch until it was eliminated.

An attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S. passenger jet has put a spotlight on what American spy agencies see as an emerging battlefield in Yemen against a rapidly growing hub for al Qaeda.

The U.S. has transferred a dozen Guantanamo detainees to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region.

A teenage girl who is the only known survivor after a jet crashed into the Indian Ocean is conscious in the hospital with bruises on her face and a gauze bandage on her elbow.

The French navy will join Yemeni authorities in expanded search and rescue efforts Wednesday off Comoros in the Indian Ocean, following the crash of a Yemenia Airways jet a day earlier.

The airliner, with 153 people aboard, plunged into the Indian Ocean today. Problems with the plane were pointed out two years ago.