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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes that a U.S. strike in Syria has killed Mohsin al-Fadhli, the leader of a group of al Qaeda militants known as Khorasan, a U.S. official told Reuters on Wednesday.

The Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has stated that his country has been loosing 20 million dollars per month because of the recent attack against the French oil container. An attack which was said to be carried out by al-Qaida organization. The Yemeni President renewed his call on the Yemeni youths members of this organization to leave the organization In a speech broadcast on the occasion of Eid al-Fiter (holiday) on Thursday, the Yemeni president said that "the state's general treasury has lost a sum of USD 20 million monthly." He added these lost money would have been used to...

US investigators now believe that a blast that crippled a French supertanker off the coast of Yemen this week was terrorism, reversing an initial assessment that the explosion could have been an accident, two senior US officials said Thursday. The officials, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said they were revising their position based on preliminary reports from US, French and Yemeni investigators who are now on the stricken vessel looking into the blast. "There are now lots of indications that it was caused by some bad people, terrorists," one official said, stressing, however that the probe had not...