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The head of the criminal investigation unit in Marib was kidnapped yesterday, and is reportedly being held in exchange for the release of tribal prisoners.Al-Sharq al-Awsat is reporting on the […]
There is not much in the way of analysis in this piece by Mareb Press, but I do completely disagree with the headline. I think al-Wahayshi's statement was, in fact, […]
Now that it is confirmed that al-'Awfi is back in Saudi Arabia's custody, everyone has a chance to speculate on exactly how he came in from the cold and what […]
A YSP leader and his son were killed in Amran. The details are a little sketchy but it seems as though the two came under gunfire and were killed. Husayn […]
I have been promising for a while to post about Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battles), but it turns out I'm actually over-worked and under-paid - on a related note […]
Yesterday the NEFA announced that it had "obtained" an AQAP statement - I'm not sure obtained is the right word here, as they didn't find it in some Yemeni safehouse […]
Greg mentioned this below, and promised not to be snarky about it, which is admirable, but in the end unsustainable. Not when there is an editorial such as this, which […]
The forums are still silent as to an AQAP statement (or any other one for that matter) on the kidnappings and executions. However, judging from the 1,069 people (at last […]
Brian and I are both in the process of posting skeleton bios and e-mail addresses to our profiles. Over the coming days - hopefully not weeks - we will also […]
I finally carved out some time today to read over the transcript of Muhammad 'Abd al-Rahman Sulayman al-Rashad's recent audio tape. This is the second anti-Shi'a screed from AQAP in […]
From time to time I hear rumors, most of them I ignore but every so often - apparently - I blog about them. One thing that I've been hearing lately […]
Writing in the Yemen Observer, Nasser Arrabyee- to whose blog we have linked here, and to which you should go every day- has a brief article about the drug trade […]
As Ibn Silliqi noted in the comments this morning another video has been released from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. This one is entitled, "The Descendants of Muhammad ibn Maslamah." […]
Well Thanksgiving didn't last long. The video of a Yemeni security official, Bassam Sulayman Tarbush, that I mentioned yesterday has now - as a few commentators have pointed out - […]
Here is the link to my appearance this morning on the Takeaway, featuring what I can only imagine was brilliant 6:30 am analysis. One note: I told the producers that […]
One of the things I regret here at Waq al-waq is how little time we spend writing about anything besides what is going wrong in Yemen - really what I'm […]
In Waq al-waq's continued attempt to bring you a better, sleeker blog I have added a new section entitled aptly: "Sites of Interest." The first entry is the website of […]
Two new You Tube videos supposedly show the Saudi Air Force carrying out bombing runs. Part one is here and part two is here. For me the big question is […]
Al-Hayat is reporting that two al-Qaeda members have been killed in Sa'dah. This is a new and confusing twist to an ongoing story. Both men are Saudis and on the […]
Faysal Mukrim of al-Hayat has a decent overview of a number of recent events in Yemen. He mentions the transfer of al-'Awfi, al-Wahayshi's recent audio tape and he says that […]