Ahmed Omar Abu Ali

HAJ Associated Press SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Yemeni military officials say fighting in two southern flashpoint towns has left 27 al-Qaida fighters and seven soldiers dead, and a top commander says the army is pushing the militants out of the area.  

ADEN, Yemen, May 26 (Xinhua) -- The Yemeni army attacked an al- Qaida hideout Saturday morning in the country's southern province of Abyan, killing 20 terrorists, the defense ministry said. Two barracks of the 25th Mechanized Army Brigade backed by dozens ...  

A couple of interesting stories are out yesterday and today.  Yesterday, we learned that the US had hacked Yemeni website that was run by al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and replaced advertisements showing extremists killing Americans into ones that showed advertisements that showed the attacks killing Muslim civilians in the terror attacks. From ABC News: In a rare glimpse into cyberwarfare tactics, a top U.S. official has...  

The State Department has launched a different sort of raid against al-Qaida, engaging in a cat and mouse game to replace anti-American al-Qaida ads on Yemeni tribal websites. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday that experts ...  

Interesting times “The State Department recently hacked an al-Qaida-affiliated website and replaced its anti-American propaganda with information on terrorist killings of civilians, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday in what appears to be a rare admission of the cyber counter-terrorism practice. The Washington Post explains that after learning that an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen had been using tribal websites to spread...  

BAGHDAD, May 25 (UPI) -- A high ranking Iraqi military officer says al-Qaida in Iraq is facing financial and logistic difficulties in the country. Commander of the Iraqi army's ground forces, Lt. Gen. Ali Ghaidan, told al-Shorfa newspaper Friday ...  

Das US-Außenministerium hat offiziell bestätigt, eine Reihe von Webseiten der islamistischen Terrororganisation Al-Qaida gehackt zu haben. Dies sei Bestandteil einer Gegenpropaganda-Kampagne gewesen, erklärte ... (Weiter lesen)Mehr zum ThemaInternet-Überwachung in Deutschland: Viel NebelUrheberrecht: Welche URLs Google löschen mussFacebook veröffentlicht eigene Fotoapp für iOSKlage gegen Werbe-Skipper in Cloud-Videorecordern"Abenteuerlich": B...  

This month, President Abdu Rabbo Mansour Hadi vowed to expel al-Qaida from Yemen, launching the country's biggest military operation against the terror group. Al-Sahwa online newspaper quoting military sources said, "the army is in the middle of ...  

HOUSTON, May 24 (UPI) -- A judge Thursday sentenced a Texas man to a maximum of 20 years in federal prison without parole for trying to aid al-Qaida terrorists. Police arrested Barry Bujol, 30, in May 2010 after he sneaked aboard a ship in the ...  

A Texas man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the terrorist group's Yemeni affiliate that is responsible for three failed attacks on the U.S. homeland.  

State Department cyber-experts recently hacked into websites being used by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen and substituted the group’s anti-American rhetoric with information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday.  

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says that the State Department hacked al-Qaida sites to replace recruitment propaganda with propaganda of their own Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP/GettyImages. The State Department recently hacked an al-Qaida ...  

Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility, saying in an emailed statement that the suicide attack was intended to avenge a U.S.-backed offensive against al-Qaida in a swath of southern Yemen seized by the militant movement last year. The bombing ...  

The assaults against al-Qaida in Abyan were conducted in partnership with local tribes and with military assistance from the United States, Defense Ministry officials told the 26 September newspaper. They added three towns had been freed ...  

CAIRO (AP) — Militants have posted online a video in which a man identifying himself as a Saudi diplomat kidnapped by al-Qaida in Yemen appeals to Saudi Arabia's rulers to respond to his captors' demands and save his life. In the video posted ...