The U.S. is seeing a spike in al Qaeda-related terror plots and threats against its embassies in Libya, Yemen and Egypt, say current and former U.S. officials citing domestic and foreign intelligence reports.

GENEVA, May 16 (Reuters) - Yemen, home to what Washingtonconsiders al Qaeda's most dangerous wing, has the chance of abright future, the top U.N. official in the country said onThursday, but needs help to deal with a major humanitariancrisis that thr

WASHINGTON May 15 (Reuters) - The Justice Department'scontroversial decision to seize phone records of AssociatedPress journalists was just one element in a sweeping U.S.government investigation into media leaks about a Yemen-basedplot to bomb a U.S.

The U.S. Justice Department has secretly obtained two months of AP reporters' phone records, and the news organization is speculating that it's tied to an investigation into how the AP found out about an al-Qaida bomb plot in Yemen. The plot inv

* Lawlessness alarms neighbour Saudi Arabia, U.S. (Adds confirmation, details from Austria and Finland)

* Lawlessness alarms neighbour Saudi Arabia, U.S. (Adds confirmation, details from Austria and Finland)

SANAA, May 9 (Reuters) - Yemeni kidnappers have freed a Finnish couple and an Austrian man missing since being taken hostage in the capital Sanaa in December 2012, a senior Yemeni security source...

It was a contradiction that perfectlycaptured the essence of the U.S. drone war against Islamicterrorists: Just as we learned that strikes in Yemen had resumedafter a three-month hiatus, a Yemeni journalist gave heart-rending congressional testimony

Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar compete for power as the Arabian peninsula’s poorest country struggles to recover after an uprising that began two years ago

DUBAI, April 14 (Reuters) - The foreign reserves of Yemen's central bank shrank by $457 million in February to their lowest level since last August as oil exports from the impoverished Arab country...

DUBAI, April 14 (Reuters) - The foreign reserves of Yemen's central bank shrank by $457 million in February to their lowest level since last August as oil exports from the impoverished Arab country plunged by a third, data showed on Sunday.

DUBAI, April 14 (Reuters) - The foreign reserves of Yemen's central bank shrank by $457 million in February to their lowest level since last August as oil exports from the impoverished Arab country...

DUBAI, April 14 (Reuters) - The foreign reserves of Yemen's central bank shrank by $457 million in February to their lowest level since last August as oil exports from the impoverished Arab country...

SANAA, April 10 (Reuters) - Yemen's president removed the commander of the elite Republican Guard from the military on Wednesday, state television reported, in an apparent a move to unify the divided...

* Residents: soldiers extorted people before clashes erupted

* Residents: soldiers extorted people before clashes erupted

* Residents: soldiers extorted people before clashes erupted

Against the wishes of a large number of their compatriots, campaigners are pressing the government to root the narcotic plant out of the country

The fall of the coastal facility that was once a crucial refuelling stop and a motor of the economy of independent south Yemen has been steep

ADEN, March 2 (Reuters) - Yemeni security forces shot andkilled one activist and wounded at least four other people onSaturday during clashes with southern separatists who hadblocked roads and attacked police, medics and witnesses said.

ADEN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - At least four people were killedand 40 wounded in south Yemen on Thursday when security forcesopened fire to disperse a protest by secessionist activists inthe port city of Aden, medical sources and witnesses said.

President Barack Obama’s drone waris in danger of becoming an Abu Ghraib-style public-relationsnightmare, drawing criticism at home from left and right (and,it seems, even many U.S. troops), spurring angry protests inPakistan and Yemen, and bec

Recruited by Islamist leaders and financed by Qatar and Saudi Arabia, more than 5,000 young men have traveled to Turkey over the last four months to fight with al-Qaeda in Syria, Yemeni journalist Nasser Arrabyee reports. As of October, Turkish Airli

* Firms report jump in sales, still below pre-crisis levels

Department set up to secure more of $7bn pledged by foreign governments and development agencies to revive a sharply contracted economy

SANAA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Attackers blew up Yemen's main oilexport pipeline on Friday, halting the flow of crude, anofficial working for the state-run Safer oil company said, thelatest in a series of attacks.

Last night Wired's Noah Shachtman published satellite images of a remote airstrip deep in the desert of Saudi Arabia that appears to be an American drone outpost built two years ago to target suspect terrorists in Yemen and Somalia. The b

* Yemen says Iranian arms included Katyusha, Strellamissiles

SANAA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Yemen's central bank cut itsdeposit rate, the key rate which it uses to adjust monetarypolicy, by 3 percentage points to 15 percent, the bank said in astatement carried by...

SANAA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Yemen's central bank cut itsdeposit rate, the key rate which it uses to adjust monetarypolicy, by 3 percentage points to 15 percent, state news agencySABA reported on...

SANAA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Yemen confirmed on Saturday that aship intercepted last month off its coast was an Iranian vesseltrying to smuggle explosives and surface-to-air missiles to thecountry, the state news agency Saba reported.

ADEN, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Yemen's military killed 10 suspectedmilitants in air and artillery strikes on Saturday, apro-government militia source said, as authorities battleinsurgents linked to al Qaeda who seized several southern townslast year.

WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Yemeni forces intercepted aship on Jan. 23 carrying a large cache of weapons - includingsurface-to-air missiles - that U.S. officials suspect were beingsmuggled from Iran and destined for Yemeni insurgents, officialssai

Child malnutrition rates have reached levels comparable with Afghanistan, and the UN believes 13m people need humanitarian assistance

SANAA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Unidentified attackers blew upYemen's main oil pipeline, forcing the country to shut down oneof its most lucrative sources of income, government and tribalsources said on Saturday.

* Suspected militants should receive fair trial -minister

* 10 suspected al Qaeda operatives killed in blast, 3 instrike

SANAA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - At least three suspected al Qaedamilitants have been killed bya drone strike in central Yemen,tribal sources and the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.

Lower supplies from locations as diverse as Nova Scotia, Yemen and Europe and strong demand are lifting New England natural-gas prices and will likely mean a winter of volatile prices for gas and electric power, the Energy Information Administration

SANAA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Gunmen killed the deputy securitychief of Dhamar province, south of the Yemeni capital Sanaa, aninterior ministry official said, less than a month after anadviser to the minister of defence was shot dead in Sanaa.

SANAA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Yemeni security forces arrestedtwo al Qaeda militants near the capital Sanaa on Monday, seizingexplosives, suicide bomb vests, assassination manuals and listsof targets for attack, security sources said.

SANAA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Yemen resumed pumping crudethrough its main oil export pipeline on Saturday, two days afterarmed tribesmen blew it up in the latest attack on the country'senergy infrastructure, government officials and oil industrysources s

Arab Spring: Time from protests beginning to the president resigning or being killed Egypt: 17 days Tunisia: 28 days Libya: 8 months Yemen: 9.5 months Syria: 22 months and counting There’s a little variation there, but one of these things is, f

RIYADH, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabian fighter jets havenot attacked al Qaeda targets in Yemen, Foreign Minister PrinceSaud al-Faisal said on Saturday, denying a newspaper report thatsome strikes attributed to U.S. drones were made instead by thekin

The United States is aiding local troops in a fight against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen, the Times of London reports. The British newspaper calls it "the secret war", with the conflict involving the use of US drones and the Saud

The FBI suspected that US-born Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen, could have bought air tickets for three of the 9/11 hijackers before the attacks, a transparency watchdog said. Judicial Watch, which is based in

SANAA, Jan 3 (Reuters) - At least three suspected al Qaedamilitants including a local commander were killed on Thursday inYemen by a strike from an unmanned aircraft, residents and alocal official said.

SANAA, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Yemen's ousted president will goabroad for medical treatment, an aide said on Thursday, and hisopponents say his absence will improve the chances of success inreconciliation talks seen as crucial for stabilising theimpoverish

Al Qaeda in Yemen has offered 3 kilograms of gold to anyone who kills Gerald Feierstein, the U.S. Ambassador, according to Reuters. At today's trading prices, 3 kilograms of gold — a little more than 96 troy ounces — is worth a little ove