I have some unexpected free time this morning, so I thought it would be nice to return to the short-lived morning papers segment of Waq al-waq.US Secretary of Defense Robert […]

According to multiple stories Yemen arrested the Saudi national Hassan Husayn bin 'Alwan on Friday in Marib. All of these stories are claiming that 'Alwan is a "major financier" for […]

Thanks to all the readers who have been commenting as of late, it is nice to know that Waq al-waq isn't (solely) an echo chamber. Yemen features prominently, if invisibly, […]

Waq al-waq has a very narrow, if self-delineated, portfolio: Yemen. But sometimes Yemen has some strange links, as some of the Google searches that bring people to Waq al-waq indicate. […]

The US and UK aren't the only embassies shutting their doors in San'a - the French, Germans, Japanese and Spain have also closed.

Sometimes the news just seems a little off. A few days ago I was watching al-Arabiyya and caught the tail end of brief about a former Guantanamo detainee, Jabir Jabran […]

We seem to have fallen into a pattern here: Greg provides the judicious review of breaking events, and I am the bearded wierdo on the corner yelling "Doom! Doom!". If […]

For those of you, who like me, missed Hamid al-Ahmar on al-Jazeera yesterday, you are definitely going to want to find a transcript of the program, as al-Ahmar calls on […]

As I have skimmed through the Wikileaks documents coming out of San'a and Riyadh I have been asking myself a number of different questions here are three (I promise some […]

Saba and 26September are reporting that four soldiers have been killed in an ambush in Abyan. Tracking this as to culpability, but it seems that violence has been ratcheting up, […]

I thought it might be appropriate to kick-off this blog with a story focusing on a problem that will be with us for the forseeable future, far beyond the closing […]

Just days after al-Zawahiri's audiotape "From Kabul to Somalia" was released the fighting in the latter has picked up. The NY Times has coverage here, and Reuters has more coverage […]

I don't have much time this morning as I'm late for a meeting, but a press release from the Yemen Embassy as well as numerous stories (all coming from this […]

Al-Qaeda in Yemen Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 12:15 to 1:45 p.m. Location:Carnegie Endowment for International PeacePanel: Gregory D. Johnsen, Shari Villarosa, Christopher Boucek U.S. and Yemeni counterterrorism efforts dealt […]

It was a busy weekend - both in Yemen and for the Waq al-waq team - but despite our busy schedules we are going to try to bring you a […]

In case you didn't get a chance to watch Richard Fontaine on Washington Journal you can now see it on-line here.

This afternoon's installment on Sada al-Malahim will be a bit shorter than earlier versions, as there is much in the article that I will be publishing later in a different […]

According to this News Yemen piece as well as this from al-Tagheer, the AQ suspect arrested today in Hudaydah is 35-year-old Muhammad Abduh Salih al-Hudali from al-Raymah - the same […]

Comments like this drive me crazy: "So it is a Saudi-Iranian proxy war," he said. (The he being: Simon Henderson, director of Gulf and energy policy at the Washington Institute […]

Sorry for the delay in postings, but I have been busy with radio interviews this morning - if I can find a link I'll post it later.But the real news, […]