Topic: Dubai
DUBAI/SANAA (Reuters) - Yemeni security sources said their forces had killed two al Qaeda leaders in the south during a bloody offensive in the flashpoint Abyan province as it seeks to regain areas seized by Islamist militants.Violence has gripped Yemen since February ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda said it would soon release an audio tape from Osama bin Laden, made a week before he was killed by U.S. forces, the group said in a statement confirming his death released on Islamist forums Friday."Before the ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - United Parcel Service is requiring photo identification for retail shipping as it expands security during its peak season after two parcel bombs were intercepted in October.The world's largest package delivery company, which expects a 7.5 percent rise to ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's Yemen-based wing threatened more small-scale attacks against the United States to inflict economic damage, particularly to the aviation industry.Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said it had cost just $4,200 to mail two parcel bombs from ...
FBI, Homeland Security: al-Qaida's Yemen group not behind crash of cargo plane in DubaiThe FBI and Homeland Security say al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen was not behind the Sept. 3 crash of a UPS cargo plane in Dubai.The terror group al-Qaida in the ...
"Emirates has placed a cargo embargo on all shipments from Yemen in cooperation with global authorities," a spokeswoman for the Dubai-based airline said in an email to AFP.Abu Dhabi's Etihad said it has taken similar measures."Etihad ceased all cargo shipments from Yemen ...
The announcement came ahead of an alert by global police agency Interpol aimed at helping forces in its 188 member states spot disguised bombs of the kind Al-Qaeda sent last week from Yemen using airmail parcel couriers.The UAE's General Civil Aviation Authority ...
"The investigations which were carried out and the details collected from the site of the UPS cargo plane crash have not shown an explosion taking place on board the aircraft," the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said."This does not mean that the ...
Western officials are crediting a Saudi intelligence tip they received in early October, nearly three weeks before terrorists in Yemen managed to smuggle mail bombs onto airplanes, with heading off what could have been a series of catastrophic explosions aboard jetliners.. The ...
Al-Qaida claims it caused UPS plane crash in DubaiA Yemen-based al-Qaida group has claimed responsibility for the downing of a United Parcel Service cargo plane in Dubai in September.Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula also says it was behind the mail bomb plot ...