SANAA (Reuters) – Yemen’s foreign minister said on Wednesday that Sanaa could protect its regional waters and would take threats seriously after al Qaeda’s Yemen-based wing called for a blockade of the Red Sea and a regional jihad.

Gulf Arab Yemen, whose neighbour Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest oil exporter, also vowed to keep up strikes on al Qaeda. Western powers fear Yemen could become a failed state in which the global militant group could thrive.

via Reuters