San’a is denying that it has any intention of starting a new round of fighting with al-Huthi supporters, according to al-Jazeera. Meanwhile, al-Sahwa is reporting new clashes today.Trey weighs in […]
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Letta Tayler of Human Rights Watch has this article at Salon. My favorite part is Murad Zafir’s quote. Murad is an old friend, and if you know him, then you […]
Khaled al-Hammadi of al-Quds al-Arabi has this excellent report from Aden today on what he describes the increasing tensions in the south. He opens the article by quoting some of […]
News Yemen has a very interesting piece on the make-up of the tribal mediation committee that freed the Japanese engineer and his Yemeni kidnapper as well as a few insights […]
Spent the weekend in beautiful Cambridge, WI (population: 1101, on the nose). A lovely little town, but not one where the news comes readily. So a touch of catching up: […]
I don’t even know where to begin with this piece, so I really won’t. Also I have better things to do with my time, but still check this out:“Awash in […]
Despite appearances we have not gone AWOL here at Waq al-waq – we’ve just gotten busy. Article deadlines and preparations for a couple of public talks later this week means […]
In an article on the dilemma of the Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo, which I co-wrote with Christopher Boucek back in November 2008 for the CTC Sentinel, we argued that there […]
For those with a satellite or residences abroad, assuming of course, that you have any interest, I will be on al-Hurra this afternoon from 4 – 5 pm along with […]
For those who read the recent interview with al-Wahayshi, I would recommend you take a look at Abdulela Sha’a’s blog– it adds a bit more detail. It seems as though […]
Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the end of the 1994 Civil War(Suggested gift: Crystal). There have been a few bombings of oil pipelines the last couple days- successful and […]
Today’s big news from Yemen, as usual, happened in Arabic. Ḥasan Muḥammad Manā’, who is quickly becoming my favorite governor to read, has an interview in today’s al-Sharq al-Awsat. How […]
I have little confidence in Mareb Press‘ sourcing for reports of the arrest of ‘Abd al-Malik al-Huthi. There seems to be much smoke and little fire.
Just as an FYI to our vast readership, in the interest of fairness Waq al-Waq would like to invite anyone we disagree with or critcize by name to please email […]
Reliefnet has a report out on Internally Displaced Peoples in Yemen stemming from the al-Huthi conflict in the north. I haven’t had time to read the full-report, but even the […]
Most people will probably find the confirmation that another former Guantanamo detainee, Yusif al-Shihri, has rejoined al-Qaeda the most interesting part of this story, but for me the most fascinating […]
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point has just released a special issue devoted to AQAP, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The issue reprints a number of articles that both Brian […]
July 7th marks the end of the 1994 civil war, as the day that Aden fell to northern troops. The aftermath is, of course, not remembered fondly in the south […]
In a sign of just how sensitive it is to what I will call Islamist criticisms, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula wasted little time in responding to what it called […]
I don’t usually do this and this is not an attempt to embarrass anyone, but since I continue to get e-mails asking about my participation in the Wilton Park Conference […]
Lost in the news of all the AQAP terrorism talk has been news of the Huthi conflict. Recent rumors – when aren’t there any about the Huthi conflict – have […]
I went to a very nice party last night at the Reuters building in New York for aspiring young foreign correspondents. Besides the nice view from Times Square, I was […]
There was much I missed in my two-day absence from blogging (although I greatly enjoyed the time off), only some of which I will recap here.First, for those of you […]
Posting will likely be light throughout the rest of this week and throughout the weekend as the Waq al-waq team celebrates Thanksgiving with friends and family and watches Nebraska beat […]
Leading the way over the weekend is news on the al-Huthi front. We speculated last week on the possibilities of renewed clashes in the wake of the postponed elections and […]
Well, in my recent monastic-like silence I’ve ignored commenting on a number of things going on in Yemen over the past few days. But it is raining outside and a […]
I have added a new site to the “sites of interest” tag on the side. This site is devoted to Jarallah ‘Umar, the YSP politician who was assassinated in December […]
Posting at Waq al-waq will be greatly reduced over the next two weeks as I take time off to celebrate Christmas and spend with my own family and another one […]
There is still no word, at least that I have heard on the two major mysteries of the past year in Sa’dah.1. What exactly happened to the remaining six kidnapping […]
Al-Tagheer is reporting that Faysal bin Shamlan has died today in Aden the result of a chronic disease.Shamlan, as many of you know, was the JMP’s candidate for president in […]