US Drone Kills Top al-Qaida Militant in Yemen

The Yemen branch of al-Qaida says one of its top commanders, Harith al-Nadhari, was killed in a U.S. air strike in the country's south. Nadhari and three other militants were killed while travelling in a car last week in the southern province of Shabwa, al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said in a statement posted on Twitter. The January 31 airstrike was the second U.S. drone strike in recent days.  The United States is the only country known to be operating drones in...

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