Yemen

The US embassy compound in Tunis and the German embassy in Khartoum are set alight as violence erupts over an anti-Islam film that has offended many Muslims. At least five protesters are dead.

As mob attacks on US embassies spread from Libya to Yemen and Egypt, doubt is cast on the origins and motives behind the anti-Muslim film said to have triggered the violence, Channel 4 News reports.

Hundreds of protesters storm the US embassy in Yemen chanting “death to America” and burning the American flag as protests against an anti-Islamic film spread across the Middle East and South Asia.

Internet access remains a luxury good in most countries with connections costing almost half of average monthly incomes, according to a global study launched by the web’s inventor Tim Berners-Lee.

The Yemeni army commander leading the fight against militants in the south of the country has been killed in a suicide attack, according to officials.

The US president says he is worried Yemen is drawing foreign terrorists who once may have gone to Pakistan’s border, after a suicide bomber killed more than 90 soldiers in Sanaa.

More than 90 people were killed and 222 injured when a suicide bomber attacked soldiers practising for a military parade in Sanaa, the Yemen capital.

Channel 4 News looks at the al-Qaeda group in the Arabian Peninsula linked to explosives found on two cargo planes, and Public Enemy No 1 for the UK intelligence services, Anwar al-Awlaki.

US officials say the discovery of a plot involving an improved “underwear bomb” shows militants are determined to build bombs that can pass through airport security.

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.

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Forces loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh fire in the air to stop tens of thousands of protesters, who are demanding he face trial, approaching his compound.

The first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize wants Britain to freeze President Saleh’s assets, and tells Channel 4 News she was laughed at for protesting – until the Tunisian revolution.

The man accused of trying to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day 2009 by detonating a bomb in his underpants pleads guilty to all charges against him.

As a US drone strike in Yemen kills cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a leading al-Qaeda figure, Channel 4 News assesses his influence on terror attacks in the UK and abroad.