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More accusations and counter-accusations over the deaths of two soldiers in Sa’dah. Could this be the beginning of the sixth war? Here at Waq al-waq, we have been warning for […]
The problems in the south continue, as the government decided to storm the offices of al-Ayyam, which have been under siege for the past several days. The AFP is reporting […]
AQAP has a new video out, and just in time. This is the video that was teased in issue 8 of Sada al-Malahim along with the audio message from ‘Adil […]
One of the old men of Yemeni tribal politics – which, I guess, is really the same as saying Yemeni politics – Shaykh Sinan Abu Lahum, he of the 4-volume […]
For those who missed it or who don’t read the comments section of Waq al-waq, yesterday the Yemeni government – through its official daily, al-Thawra – published a blacklist of […]
The news is still coming in about today’s ambush in Yemen, which left at least three security officials dead with some reports claiming 7 dead.Both Mareb Press and News Yemen […]
News Yemen is now reporting that al-Watani editor, ‘Abd al-Raqib al-Hadayani, has been released although more than 40 people are still in custody after today’s events in al-Dhala’. Naba News, […]
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations will hold a hearing on Yemen this week – Yemen: Confronting al–Qaeda, Preventing State Failure – of which I will be a part. I […]
Every so often – say once or twice every few months – it really does seem, at least from the outside, as if Yemen is falling apart, and, gasp, could […]
Studying and thinking about groups like al-Qaeda can be an intellectually dangerous undertaking. Like most areas of study, the information one is dealing with is often heavily biased. Additionally, there […]
The following comes from Greg Miller’s article in the Washington Post on the second issue of Inspire:“The publication notes with evident pride that AQAP, as the group is known, has […]
Today’s papers are full of fears of what tomorrow’s anniversary (Brian lives in an alternate universe one day ahead of the rest of us – like some little-remembered sitcom I […]
The government seems to be keeping up a punishing offensive (or defensive, depending on how you want to look at it). My theory, or, if I want to be like […]
Faysal Mukrim of al-Hayat has an article covering the opening of the trial of the 16 al-Qaeda suspects. The article is fairly good, and it gives the names of all […]
In what is almost surely a sign of things to come, at least in my opinion, there is a thread up on one of the jihadi forums that discusses a […]
We still don’t know a lot about the two package bombs from Yemen that were discovered the other day. Although I’m pretty certain that the next time I go to […]
I heard some very interesting and very big news from the Sa’dah front last night, which I’m waiting to see reported in the local press to confirm what I heard […]
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Simon Henderson has this piece on the Huthi conflict.He suggests that the reason for the renewed conflict in August was that fighters of […]
Waq al-waq does not usually break protocol and comment on issues outside of Yemen, but this is an exception. On Friday my younger brother was awarded the Navy and Marine […]
For those interested in a bit more background on AQAP and the recent raids I have done a couple of radio interviews that may be illuminating.The first was with Glenn […]
Thomas over at Jihadica has a lot more on the term ruwaybidha, including one of the traditions from which some version of the term stems,also politely correcting my original transliteration. […]
Al-Sharq al-Awsat leads the way with an article about AQAP’s statement. One thing that few people seem to be picking up on is the difference in names between AQAP’s statement […]
Yemen has upped the reward and expanded the search to two other governorates, but there is still no word on the remaining six hostages. This absence of information is leading […]
Last year on the eve of September 11 the al-Ikhlas forum was taken off-line. I have yet to see a good explanation for its absence although I have heard plenty […]
My technical incompetence has forced me to re-post the announcement on the Losing Bet. For those in Washington and interested you can watch a trailer here. (Click on the announcement […]
I made the mistake of listening to bin Laden’s newest tape, which comes with English sub-titles and both an Arabic text and an English translation, before my coffee this morning. […]
This article (English) reminds me of the problems that certain academics (who shan’t be named here) had attempting to explain how something like the September 11 attacks could have happened […]
Well, your buddy Brian here at Waq al-Waq never really expected to link to an article from Marxism.com, but it seems everyone wants to get into the Yemen game right […]
In the experiment in vanity that is Waq al-waq, I have added a post, which has its own permanent link on the sidebar of a list of non-academic articles. So […]