With funding for preserving the historic site in jeopardy, local officials are wondering what will come next for the 800-year ...

Al-Qaida Takes To The Hills Of Yemen's Badlands Yemeni troops, backed by the U.S., say they have retaken the final stronghold of al-Qaida-linked militants in the country's south.

Experts say al-Qaida in Yemen is learning from the mistakes of other branches of the organization in Iraq and other battle zones. It is motivated, organized and fixed on a main target: the weak ...

Al-Qaida and its allies remain entrenched in parts of Yemen despite a stepped-up campaign of drone strikes and a U.S.-backed offensive to remove the Islamist militants from the country, according ...

The al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, usually referred to as AQAP - or al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula - was founded in 2009 after the Yemeni and Saudi branches of the terrorist organisation combined.

In 2002, al-Qaeda bombed the French oil tanker Limbourg off the coast of Yemen. Later that year, a senior al-Qaeda leader was killed in Yemen in one of the first publicly revealed Predator drone ...

epa03272924 Yemeni soldiers hold posters of slain Major General Salem Ali Qatan, the commander of Yemen s southern military region, during a funeral service in Sana'a, Yemen, 19 June 2012.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the Yemeni government became a more committed supporter of the U.S.’s antiterrorism efforts, helping with a Predator-drone attack that killed an al-Qaeda leader in 2002.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which Washington has considered al Qaeda’s most dangerous franchise since it attempted several attacks on the United States, is more or less using Yemen's ...

A senior operative of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula wanted for his role in the USS Cole bombing was killed by an airstrike in Yemen on Sunday.

A budding relationship between ISIS and al Qaeda in Yemen was first noted by U.S. officials several months ago, but the proclamation, issued Aug. 14, is the first official link between the groups.