Chanting “death to America,” hundreds of protesters angered by an anti-Islam film stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital and burned the American flag today, the latest in a series of attacks on American diplomatic missions in the Middle East.

Protesters angered by an anti-Islam film have stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital, two days after America’s ambassador was gunned down at the US Consulate in Libya.

FBI experts are picking apart the sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to discover if it was capable of getting past airport security and blowing up a commercial plane.

The CIA has thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen to destroy a US-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden.

An airstrike killed a top al Qaida leader on the FBI’s most wanted list for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole warship, Yemeni officials said.

Nineteen people have been killed in clashes between Yemeni troops and al-Qaida militants in a strategic southern city, officials say.

Yemeni government troops have killed more than 100 al Qaida fighters in the past two days in an offensive against militant hideouts in the country’s south, the interior ministry said.

Yemeni government forces regained control of a strategic gateway in the south today after intense three-day shelling of al Qaida hideouts in the area that left 43 militants dead, military and medical officials said.

The death toll among Yemeni government troops attacked by al-Qaida militants at the weekend has risen to 185, military officials said today.

Doctors say at least eight protesters have been killed by Yemeni security forces.

Yemeni government troops have shelled residential areas in the restive southern city of Taiz for a fourth straight day, killing three people on Friday, residents said.

Clashes between Yemeni government troops and a renegade army unit killed at least 20 people, including three civilians, in the capital Sanaa, officials said.

ANWAR al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, using his fluent English and internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks in the United States, was killed yesterday in the mountains of Yemen, US and Yemeni officials said.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure in al-Qaida’s most active branch, has been killed in the mountains of Yemen.

Tribesmen shot down a Yemeni government warplane which was bombing their positions north of the capital Sanaa today, military officials said.

THE US is building a ring of secret drone bases in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of an aggressive campaign against al-Qaida affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

YEMENI government forces opened fire with anti-aircraft guns and automatic weapons on tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital demanding the overthrow of their long-time ruler, killing at least 26 and wounding dozens, medical officials and witnesses said.

YEMENI President Ali Abdullah Saleh refused to sign a transition of power deal yesterday, saying it would push the country toward civil war.

Yemeni government snipers have killed at least 31 people as they fired on a crowd of thousands of anti-government demonstrators.

The Yemeni government escalated its efforts to stop mass protests calling for the president’s ousting, with soldiers firing rubber bullets and tear gas at students camped at a university in the capital in a raid that left at least 98 people wounded, officials said.

A team of US investigators was heading to Yemen today to help search for suspects in the cargo bomb plot.

Amnesty International said today it has evidence that points to US involvement in air strikes on suspected al-Qaida hideouts in Yemen late last year, and criticised Washington for allegedly using cluster munitions and not taking precautions to avoid civilian casualties.

An al-Qaida affiliated group has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that targeted the British ambassador in Yemen, a US-based terrorist tracking organisation said today.

The threat to the UK from international terrorism has been raised from substantial to severe – meaning an attack is “highly likely”.

A GROUP of prominent Muslim clerics warned yesterday they will call for jihad, or holy war, if the US sends troops to fight al-Qaida in Yemen.

The US embassy in Yemen has reopened after a two-day closure prompted by a terrorist threat, officials said today.

Two suspected al-Qaida terrorists were killed in clashes outside the Yemeni capital San’a today as the US and British embassies remained closed for a second day by terror threats.

Shepherds found the mutilated bodies of two German nurses and a South Korean teacher who were kidnapped while picnicking in an area of Yemen known as a hideout for al-Qaida.

A detainee at Guantanamo Bay has died of an apparent suicide, US military officials said.

A MOTORCYCLE bomb exploded amid a crowd of worshippers leaving a mosque after Friday prayers in northern Yemen, killing at least 18 people and wounding about 45, government officials said.

Mourners packed the home of a Yemeni who died at the American prison in Guantanamo Bay as his family dismissed US claims that he committed suicide and accused prison authorities of murdering him.

PRESIDENT Bush’s administration was left with egg on its face last night after a debacle when a cargo of North Korean missiles was seized at gun point then allowed to sail to the original destination.

THE US Embassy in Yemen was closed for security reasons yesterday and protection of the building was increased after revelations that a US Hellfire missile fired from a CIA plane killed a senior member of the al-Qaida terror network.

YEMEN and France launched a probe yesterday into a blast which gutted a French-flagged tanker in the Gulf of Aden amid speculation by the owners and French diplomats that the vessel was targeted by terrorists.