Tribesmen use captives to pressure Yemen
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When a French hostage mentioned to Yemeni kidnappers this week that he needed his blood pressure medication, they retrieved it for him.
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ISLAMABAD - Fourteen tribal leaders trying to help Pakistani forces organise the surrender of Al Qaeda-linked militants in a remote region near the Afghan border have been killed, a military spokesman said Wednesday.
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Al Qaeda in Yemen vowed to free its prisoners from the country's jails and retaliate for the killing of militants by the government.
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Hundreds of tribesmen gathered Tuesday near the area where suspected al-Qaida-linked militants are holding two Chinese engineers and demanding safe passage to their reputed leader, a former U.S. prisoner from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials and residents said.
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Militants piled more pressure on  Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a  Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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Some of the Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in Darfur are now unleashing their firepower against each other in a battle that is displacing tens of thousands.
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Women and children were being used as human shields by militants besieged in a mosque in Islamabad, the Pakistan government said on Thursday as security forces ratcheted up pressure on hundreds inside to surrender.
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Tribal leaders in a remote area of Pakistan are trying to negotiate the release of two Chinese hostages. The engineers were abducted on Saturday along with two Pakistanis in South Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan.
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In Yemen, a theological contest cools Al Qaeda hotbed.
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Militants piled more pressure on Washington&#39;s military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing a Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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Militants piled more pressure on Washington's military allies in Iraq on Thursday, seizing an Iraqi-Polish woman and holding a Japanese man under threat of death.
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NABUSIMAKE, Colombia -- Caught in the crossfire of a conflict not of their making, Colombia's indigenous tribes say they are fighting the greatest threat to their survival since Spanish colonizers reached their shores 500 years ago.
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The UNHCR starts a campaign to dissuade migrants from making the perilous journey from Somalia to Yemen.
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Yemeni security forces battled Islamic fundamentalists Thursday during raids in search of suspects in a suicide bombing that killed seven Spanish tourists, a security official said.
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Yemen is pioneering a novel approach for dealing with convicted al-Qaida operatives: Let them roam free as long as they promise to be law-abiding.
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Yemeni tribesmen released four French   tourists on Monday who they had held hostage for more than two   weeks, government officials said.
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Commanders are arming groups that have promised to fight militants who have been their allies in the past.