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A police trooper is seen manning a checkpoint in Sana’a August 5, 2013. (REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah)
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Yemeni soldiers search a car at a checkpoint on a street leading to the US embassy compound in Sana’a on August 4, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS)
US extends Middle East embassy closures
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The US announced that several American embassies across the Middle East and Africa will remain closed this week, after more than 20 were closed on Sunday in response to warnings of a terrorist threat. According to a US State Department...Caption:
Foreign Minister of Yemen Abu Bakr Al-Qirbi attends a news conference at the Friends of Yemen ministerial meeting in London, Britain, 07 March 2013. (EPA/Andy Rain)
Yemen’s foreign minister on Iran, reform and terrorism
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awqsat—It is fair to say that Yemen, the most troubled state on the Arabian peninsula, faces more than its share of domestic and foreign crises. Ever since the downfall of president Ali Abdullah Saleh in 2012, it has struggled to deal with the...Caption:
A plane wreck are seen on the ground as security forces and soldiers gather at the site of a plane crash in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday 13, 2013. Source: AP Photo/Hani Mohammed
Al-Qaeda’s air war in Yemen
Yemen’s president Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi and the commander of the country’s Air Force, Brigadier Rashid Al-Janad, have responded to recent crashes of military aircraft in Yemen by saying that “bad people” were behind the incidents, as well as the assassination of...Caption:
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