Al Qaeda’s offshoot in Yemen exhorted followers over the weekend to take on the U.S. in response to a raid by American commandos that killed senior figures in the group, while the militants launched fresh attacks on territory held by the internationally recognized government. Qasim al-Raymi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, compared his group to extremists fighting American forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and...

Source: Wall Street Journal February 05, 2017 13:21 UTC