Sorry for the delay in postings, but I have been busy with radio interviews this morning – if I can find a link I’ll post it later.But the real news, […]
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Waq al-waq should have much more this afternoon on the executions of the 9 hostages (the Yemeni Embassy in the US is only confirming three dead) in the North. At […]
Yemen is saying that it is open season on al-Qaeda in the country, claiming that it will fight them wherever it finds them and warning Yemenis against helping them or […]
CNN and other news outlets are reporting on the possibilities of Yemenis being turned over to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation before they are returned to Yemen. I have been hearing […]
Munir al-Mawiri sums up this quite nicely in his article for Mareb Press today in which Waq al-waq shares top billing with Sada al-Malahim. He is referring to the fact […]
Intrepid Yemeni journalist, Arafat Madabish, scored an impressive coup for al-Sharq al-Awsat (he also runs the al-Tagheer website) by getting an interview with ‘Abd al-Malik al-Huthi. The interview is fairly […]
There have been a number of news reports today, suggesting Yemeni war planes have carried out strikes against suspected al-Qaeda positions in in Bani Dhabayn territory just outside of San’a. […]
One of Waq al-waq’s favorite Yemeni reporters, Mohammed al-Qadhi, has a new article out for the National on the Huthi conflict. My comments in the report shouldn’t be much of […]
Williman Maclean has this report in Reuters, which continues to pour cold water on the NY Times’ article suggesting al-Qaeda is relocating for the summer. The article cites Thomas Hegghammer, […]
Following a long day of meetings and talks, I found the new AQAP video on the forums as I was awaiting my train at Union Station (despite the decidedly unfriendly […]
File this in the better late than never category: the US government is finally publicly acknowledging the Huthi conflict.The Huthis will focus on paragraph one:“The United States is increasingly concerned […]
For those with an interest I did a Bloggingheads segment with Mark Goldberg here.
So, the new Thomas Pynchon novel came out today. I am not that far into it, but have been re-reading a lot of Pynchon the last few weeks as a […]
Waq al-waq topped 5,000 visitors yesterday, which is a new high for us, welcome to all you newcomers.For those that don’t know, I run a periodic (that is, whenever the […]
Congratulations are in order to a good friend – who wishes to remain nameless – who successfully defended his/her dissertation this morning, and will surely play an important if behind-the-scenes […]
The news from Yemen is a bit thin today because a) newspapers keep getting banned and b) I’m still struggling to maneuver through al-Ghad and al-Hayat’s new formatting, both of […]
Waq al-waq expects better from the New York Times, we really do. This article from the NY Times’ Steven Erlanger includes this section: “Although Mr. Wuhayshi is still widely believed […]
According to reports in al-Sahwa and al-Tagheer, soldiers from the 312th brigade have besieged the villages in al-Zuwar, which is located in the Surwah district of Marib in an effort […]
The New America Foundation is about to have a discussion on Yemen, which can be streamed live here. Barak Barfi will be presenting his paper, it seems, and then there […]
Three people whose work I respect: Brian, Aaron and Clint have all come down – with some variations – on the side of using drones in Yemen to target and […]
Three new articles on Yemen (in English) that you should read.1. Bernard Haykel in the National2. Fawaz Gerges for CNN3. Michael Knights for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Greg is traveling this weekend and I am in a cabin in Wisconsin. So we’re going to try another open thread below. Readers, feel free to comment, hypothesize, argue, ask […]
Remember last year, when everyone was complaining about high oil prices? Remember how McCain mocked Obama for suggesting that people keep their tires inflated? That was fun, right? Then gas […]
Although there are clearly more important things going on in Yemen today, and like everyone else we here are also riveted by what is happening in Iran, I am going […]
Back in October news reports surfaced that Fahd al-Quso had been killed in Pakistan. I had my doubts then and said so here and here. Today, we have photographic evidence […]
President Salih is out of the country today, but while he is gone the JMP is publicly questioning his speech from Saturday, suggesting that there are more secessionists in San’a […]
If anyone has some free time and can make it this sounds like an interesting, if predictable, lecture.
I came close to making it through the weekend without blogging, but the new statement from AQAP forced my hand.The statement denies that anyone was killed in the strike on […]
One of the questions I am often asked is what if any links al-Qaeda as it is headquartered in Yemen has with al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia. Certainly, Sada al-Malahim has […]