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Today’s papers are full of news of the continuing conflict in the North. In English Heather Murdock has this curious offering from the Global Post in which she kills off […]

Earlier this month I wrote about the possibility of a replay of 2001-2002 and the US targeting al-Qaeda operatives with drones. The news that the US “assisted” with this week’s […]

The big Sa’dah post that I have been promising is on the way – I promise. But in the meantime, while Iran is calling for a political solution and while […]

This is what happens in a war – conflicting reports based on hearsay and rumors and no one really knows what is happening.Lets review three security incidents from today.1. First, […]

With everyone talking about Ibrahim Asiri and a number of reporters asking what I knew about him, I thought it would be useful if I put together a little biographic […]

Waq al-waq’s multi-media team has recently been busy preparing a new series of what could most accurately be called “sporadic conversations on Yemen,” but we have instead elected to call […]

I go out of town for a while only to return having learned two things. First, never, ever go to the driving range in sandals and second, our excessively shy […]

I’ve been holding off linking to this article under the mistaken impression that I would have time to give it a close read, but as the days have gone by […]

Still little discussion on the forums about the sentences handed down to the Tarim Cell today, although one post mistakenly claims that all 16 were sentenced to death. In the […]

A couple of weeks ago, I was part of a panel on Yemen hosted by the National Council on US-Arab Relations.The video for that event is now on-line and available.

The Yemen Embassy in DC has posted a video of the Dec. 17 raid on an al-Qaeda safehouse in Arhab to You Tube.The video is fascinating – just over 7 […]

Presumably there is more news than me finally being able to transfer al-Wahayshi’s latest speech on to my i-pod so that I can listen to his creaking voice as I […]

Abdillah Haydar al-Shay’a has published the text of his interview from a few weeks back with Anwar al-Awlaki on al-Jazeera.Update: It is difficult to square al-Awlaki’s description of this e-mail […]

The new issue of the Arab Reform Bulletin is out, and it has an article on the delaying of the elections in Yemen. Marine Poirier gives an overview of the […]

That Bloomberg article Greg mentions below is, indeed, something else. They had me at “Shi’ite Muslim rebellion”. They also mentioned 4 armed men being arrested outside the US Embassy. The […]

A number of my favorite commentators on Yemen have been speaking and writing on Yemen lately and here is an assortment of their varied views:First up is Daniel Varisco of […]

Saudi Arabia has finally revealed the names of the two individuals killed in the shootout in Jizan. (I am seeing this spelled two different ways in Arabic one with an […]

In recent days there has been a series – does three equal a spate? – of articles on the attempted assassination of Muhammad bin Nayif, which I have written about […]

Waq al-waq is proud to link to Jarret Brachman’s blog on all things Jihadi. Jarret was kind enough to let me sit beside him at a conference last year back […]

Yemen and fears of secession is the topic of the “Big Question” over at World Policy Journal’s blog. I helped a bit with the project – not in putting it […]

It should come as little surprise to readers of this blog, despite the fact that I attempted to fly under the radar, that I have been in Yemen for the […]

Instead of talking about how Reuters came late to the party let’s embrace the fact that they came at all. (Anyone with the reference?)

The New York Times has just posted a story on Yemen and the difficulties of closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay.Those who read this blog know how I feel about […]

This is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing from an aid worker, Saddam al-Abdeeni, in Sa’dah.

Al-Sahwa and other Yemeni newspapers are reporting clashes between Yemeni security forces and al-Qaeda suspects in Hudaydah. (One warning note: over the next several days we will inevitably see a […]

I ran into this brief article that mentions that Monday night, flights between Australia and Indonesia were disrupted by an ash plume from an unknown volcano (well, unknown to the […]

After spending some tumultuous time together at the infamous “Yellow House” in Arles, Vincent van Gogh, no stranger to psychiatric help, thought that fellow artist and former roommate Paul Gauguin […]

The most common form of domestic terrorism in the U.S. is violent attacks on abortion clinics. Between 1973 and 2003, over 300 abortion providers were the target of acts of […]

Now that AGU is behind us and that I’ve waded through a lot of grading (over the weekend: 4 sets of labs and one each of papers and homework), I […]

Part of being a postmodern conservative is being open to the truth of the distinctively personal LOGOS of Christianity, to the possibility that the Christian understanding of being a person is […]