Ginny Hill has written a couple of articles over the past few days on Yemen and Guantanamo and al-Qaeda and failed states. The first is at Open Democracy and provides […]
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After threatening several times, I have finally added a “Yemeni reading list” in the post below and I will create a permanent link on the side. The list is based […]
Despite the recent truce between the government and the Huthis in the north, things are far from settled.Today, the Huthis announced that they were vacating 20 positions around the city […]
Issue 13 of Sada al-Malahim is out today, and while I won’t take the time to go through the whole journal (many other things to do), one thing did stand […]
Even though there are a couple of things I am eager to blog about (and disagree with), particularly regarding some of the recommendations put out by the Center for Strategic […]
Well one talk down and one to go – although tomorrow’s is on the 1994 civil war. But while I was busy dissecting the Siege of San’a others had more […]
After weeks of anticipation, at least in the nerdy circles that I run in, the ICG report on Sa’dah is finally out. I haven’t read the whole report yet – […]
A few days ago I mentioned that the current situation in Yemen is much more complicated than the traditional north/south dichotomy. Now, President Salih in a meeting with people from […]
Foreign Policy has published a wonderful series of photos of Yemen by Sandy Choi – check them out.
I am not sure what impact this will have on Yemen. I feel that so much has happened since his abduction/arrest that it is difficult to gauge what role he […]
On February 19 we posted on Nasir al-Wahayshi’s speech here. At the time one of the things that most intrigued me – besides a specific term, I have already blogged […]
I have seen the Huthis accused with any number of things, but the charge of black magic is a new one.
Well, I guess the south of Yemen isn’t really considered Dixie, but I also hate coming up with titles, so we’re going to stick with it. Over at the BBC […]
Over the weekend I read one of the best – in English – articles on Sa’dah that I have seen in a long time and one of the worst.First, the […]
Christopher Davidson:“For the international community there’s enormous significance as well as is the case with most domestic struggles in the Middle East, there’s something of a proxy war between Iraq […]
Mareb Press publishes what claims to be the most accurate list of Yemenis in US prisons both Guantanamo and Bagram. The list is available here. I have written previously about […]
For those of you interested in more on the confessions of Muhammad al-‘Awfi, and judging from my in-box there are a number of you, should all check out this transcript […]
Given all the news stories about Yemen being published – some very good and others not so good – I thought it would be helpful to give a brief run […]
There is a tendency when talking about al-Qaeda to over-exaggerate the threat and hastily abandon nuance in an attempt to make headlines, I’m sure I am as guilty of this […]
There has been a great deal of confusion over what exactly is going in Yemen, and whether or not the country is releasing AQ suspects. On the surface, this looks […]
There are two new articles out on Yemen both asking roughly the same question: Is Yemen the next Afghanistan. The first by Diane Tucker of the Huffington Post relies mostly […]
Clashes broke out in Aden today ahead of the May 22 anniversary. News Yemen has coverage here and Mareb Press takes up the issue here, claiming that around 25 people […]
Bad timing with schedules today, as we are both, for various reasons, going to be away from computers, at least sporadically. With that in mind, we invite our readers to […]
It is late on a Friday and things are getting a bit wild, as the AFP attempts to put a new spin on an old cliche, writing: “The authorities in […]
These are heady times, for sure. We would like to welcome to the ranks of suddenly-confident pontificators one Mr. Oliver North, writing in a column for Fox News. Col. North […]
Both Brian and I have taken a couple of steps back over the past couple of days (for different reasons) but also to contemplate potential changes to Waq al-waq and […]
We are ignoring numerous things here this week – the goings on in Radfan, the escalation with the al-Huthis in the North, the strange news regarding Tariq al-Fadhli – but […]
As most of our readers know, the long-expected sixth Sa’dah war has been going on for the past few weeks. I was in Yemen when it started and spent some […]
I caught the tail end of a report on al-Jazeera this morning about the happenings in the south – it did not look good. News Yemen is reporting at least […]
UPI is out with a new article that makes the unfounded and ridiculous claim that Saudi Arabia is fighting the Huthis because it is worried about al-Qaeda. The level of […]