U.S. and British governments have withdrawn diplomatic staff from Yemen and urged people to go out amid worries about security threats.It follows the sudden closure of 20 U.S. embassies and consulates on Sunday.
This was prompted by a conversation intercepted between two al-Qaeda figures, including senior leader on Ayman Al-Zawahiri, U.S. media said.
The Pentagon says the U.S. Air Force was flying in workers from the capital Sanaa early Tuesday.
Global travel alert said. "The U.S. State Department warns U.S. citizens of the high security threat level in Yemen due to terrorist activities and civil unrest.
"The call for U.S. citizens to defer travel to Yemen and the United States as a citizen living in Yemen to leave immediately.".
It added that "security threat level in Yemen is very high".
It comes hours after a drone strike killed four militants, Al-Qaeda suspects in the country overnight, a senior U.S. official confirmed the BBC.
In a separate incident tribes say they have shot down a military helicopter, killing at least six Yemeni soldiers.
BBC Abdullah Ghorab in Sanaa, Yemen's capital says security measures have been experiencing unprecedented with hundreds of armored vehicles deployed.
Our correspondent, said the sources, security has been identified as intelligence, Yemen has discovered that dozens of members of al-Qaeda arrived in Sanaa a few days ago in the. arrangements for the implementation of a large plot.
The source of the plot described is dangerous and it is recommended to include bombs and suicide attacks aimed at Western diplomatic missions and military headquarters of Yemen.
Sources in the Air Force, Yemen has told the BBC that the Yemeni war planes made regular flights to monitor the movement of the cells believed to be al Qaeda in the region of Shaouan and Thahban in Sanaa.
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