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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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
There have been a number of articles about Yemen in recent days. (Waq al-waq even put in an appearance on the pages of the Washington Post.) Most have been nonsense, […]
Three articles in three major publications- yes, TNR is still a major publication, at least in my heart, and people do in fact read the Huffington Post. And then, of […]
According to some headlines this morning, anyway. The US and Yemen are reviewing possible attacks in what is described as retaliation for the attempted Christmas bombing. While this is probably […]