Sources: Reuters
French forces confirm reports that they killed Algerian-born senior al-Qaeda official Yahia Djouadi in a drone strike in February. 2022-03-7
The United States Department of Defense reports that forces have killed a senior al-Qaeda leader in Syria through an MQ-9 drone strike. 2021-10-22
The Houthis carry out a drone strike on Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia, damaging a civilian aircraft. A Houthi spokesman says that the attack is in response to coalition airstrikes and other actions in Yemen. 2021-02-10
Yemen's top salafist cleric, Samahan Abdel-Aziz, is found dead, with signs of torture, in Sheikh Othman, Aden Governorate, after being abducted by gunmen outside his mosque after delivering a sermon against Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. 2016-01-31
Shiite Houthi rebels seize a Yemeni military base south of the capital, Sana'a, where U.S. military advisers once trained Yemeni counterterrorism forces to fight Al-Qaeda in the south of the country. Forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh had manned the captured base. 2015-01-29
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants kill five Yemeni soldiers in an attack on a gas terminal in Southern Yemen. 2013-08-11
Air strikes kill 30 Al-Qaeda linked militants near Zinjibar in Yemen's Abyan Governorate with eight army soldiers killed in fighting. 2011-08-24
The United States intensifies air raids against suspected Al-Qaeda members in Yemen amid anti-government protests. 2011-06-9
Security forces in Yemen clash with suspected Al-Qaeda members in Aden during investigations into a bombing of a government compound last week. 2010-06-25
Yemen arrests three suspected Al-Qaeda members, including one leader, northwest of the capital Sana'a. 2010-01-6