The military intelligence chief for Yemen's Hadramawt province, Col. Ahmed Abdulrazzaq, was shot and killed April 27 by suspected Islamist militants on a motorbike, a security official said, Reuters reported.

A U.S. drone strike killed two suspected members of al Qaeda in Yemen's Marib province on April 21, a security official said, Reuters reported.

A U.S. unmanned aerial vehicle strike in southern Yemen on April 17 killed an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader, identified as Hamid al-Radmi, and four other militants, an unnamed Yemeni government official said, Reuters reported.

At least three Yemeni army personnel were injured April 4 when mortar shells fired by suspected al Qaeda militants hit a military site in the eastern suburbs of Abyan, in the country's south, Xinhua reported, citing a government official.

Yemeni President Abd Rabboh Mansour Hadi rejected an al Qaeda offer for a two-month truce, a senior security official said, AP reported March 4.

Secessionist gunmen attacked a jail in Yemen's southern city of Aden in an attempt to free pro-Southern Movement inmates, wounding at least two policemen, a government official said, Xinhua reported Feb. 17.

U.N. monitors are reporting that Islamist militants in Somalia are receiving arms from distribution networks linked to Yemen and Iran, diplomats said, Reuters reported Feb. 11.

Yemeni forces intercepted a ship Jan. 23 carrying a cache of surface-to-air missiles suspected of being smuggled from Iran to Yemeni insurgents, unnamed U.S. officials said Jan. 28, Reuters reported.