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I have just finished a first reading of the three statements AQAP posted to jihadi forums earlier today. The one that is getting the most attention - not surprisingly - […]
I often miss things on Yemen here at Waq al-waq, and two of the articles I have missed in recent days have been by academics who study Yemen. (Full disclosure: […]
I am traveling the next couple of days, and blogging will likely be sporadic until I return to Princeton on Wednesday just in time for a talk.In the meantime here […]
Hamid al-Ahmar has been named the "most prominent political personality of 2009" in a poll conducted by Yemen Today. This should surprise no one besides a few in the US […]
While protesters were clashing with security forces and militias in the south, the fighting continued in the north between Huthi supporters and government forces all the while President Salih is […]
Tomorrow the new issue of Foreign Policy hits the newsstands. Inside the issue I have a small(ish) article on Yemen. The article was solicited months ago as part of a […]
The fall-out from al-Fadhli's announcement continues. (I have a very interesting assessment in my in-box from a Yemen, which I'm hoping to post once I get his/her permission - along […]
For those with any interest, I did a couple of radio spots this morning, although if you are reading this you have probably heard it all before.First on the Takeaway […]
For those of you who have been closely following the reports out of Yemen lately it appears as though either A.) the al-Haniq family of Arhab is the most dangerous […]
The government has launched a massive campaign against the Huthis. Heavy fighting is reported, in the latest round of this debilitating, years-long struggle, in which neither side seems capable of […]
Just in time for my post on AQAP's financing, the GAO has released a new report on al-Qaeda financing in Saudi Arabia. (Full disclosure: I participated in an interview for […]
It has been just under a month since I made the decision to drastically reduce my posts - one a month, or so - and while I'm still trying to […]
Laurent Bonnefoy, a bright young French scholar, has a new article out on the Varieties of Islamism in Yemen.I respect Laurent's opinion, but I don't agree with everything he says […]
Abdulahi is promising more information on his January interview with Nasir al-Wahayshi on his blog. Along with everyone else I'm excited and waiting. Also of interest our two new Yemeni […]
Neither Greg nor I are energy experts- even The Prize, as gripping as it was, was more or less Finnegan's Wake for me. And zinc mines are nowhere near as […]
One of the more frustrating things about watching and reading the coverage of Yemen over the past month has been the insistence - some of it by people who really […]
For the past few years one of the more intriguing questions about Yemen has been: what is Muhammad bin Nayyif (Saudi Arabia's deputy Minister of the Interior) thinking about his […]
Here at Waq al-waq we like to pride ourselves on our gravitas and serious attention to detail and historical fact - except of course when we are talking about swords […]
Yemen, or at least the newspapers in Yemen, are fairly quiet this morning.Trey pointed out that the Ministry of the Interior has put together a list of terrorist that combines […]
I have had some more conversations today about the truce that al-Ghad reported, and at least some government sources are pouring cold water on the report. This is the first […]