Yemen

A new response in the war on terror

2013-05-24 00:00:00

Better late than never, President Obama has moved to establish more rigorous standards for the targeted killings of Americans and foreigners alike away from a battlefield. The need for what he called "strong oversight of all lethal action" was one theme...

Obama puts restrictions on drone program

2013-05-23 18:07:00

WASHINGTON — Reining back the aggressive counter-terrorism strategy he has embraced for five years, President Obama declared clear, public restrictions for the first time on using unmanned aircraft to kill terrorists, a shift likely to significantly...

Obama administration says fourth American was killed by U.S. drone

2013-05-22 14:31:00

WASHINGTON – A day before President Obama is set to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that it had killed four U.S. citizens – one more than previously known – with...

Obama restricts drone strikes overseas

2013-05-23 11:24:00

WASHINGTON -- Under pressure from Congress and international allies, President Obama announced a change in what has been a central piece of his counter-terrorism strategy, saying he will place new restrictions on the targeting of terrorists with...

Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed

2013-05-22 18:53:00

WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...

Defense official says U.S. has authority to target terrorists anywhere

2013-05-16 18:17:00

WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under a law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist...

Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans

2013-05-17 05:00:00

A 100-day-old hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists has agitated international human rights advocates anew, prompting fresh calls worldwide for closure of the detention center that President Obama vowed to shutter more than...

Counter-terrorism leak compromised an informant, sources say

2013-05-16 03:00:00

WASHINGTON -- The unauthorized disclosure of a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....

Leak ended informant's rare opportunity, U.S. officials say

2013-05-16 16:46:00

WASHINGTON — Disclosure of a highly classified intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised an exceedingly rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to U.S. officials....

Bringing drones out of the shadows

2013-05-13 00:00:00

The use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, a practice that has dramatically escalated during the Obama administration, is receiving fresh and welcome scrutiny in Congress and elsewhere even as the number of drone strikes seems to be on the...

McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes

2013-05-04 08:28:00

President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...

'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars

2013-05-03 08:00:00

In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...

Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad march in the Yemeni capital, Sana, in protest of Israeli airstrikes on weapons convoys in Syria. Israel claims a right to prevent sophisticated arms from being acquired by the Hezbollah militia, although it has yet to confirm it waged the recent attacks.

2013-05-07 00:00:00

Supporters of Yemen's former President Ali Abdullah Saleh attend a rally Wednesday in Sana, Yemen.

2013-02-27 00:00:00

Yemeni Military Police show off their skills during a ceremony to inaugurate the first phase of combat and operational training for 2013 in the Yemeni capital Sanaa

2013-01-05 00:00:00