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Nasser Arrabyee, a good friend, is attending the Sundance Film Festival for the film "The Oath" about Yemen's Guantanamo Bay detainees, as this post on his blog and this article […]
Both Marib Press and News Yemen as well as a number of wire reports are reporting that Yemen has arrested Muhammad Ahmad al-Haniq, the individual from Arhab it has been […]
The Yemeni government's official daily, al-Thawra, is reporting that the five people were killed in yesterday's ambush. (Sorry it is a PDF so no link - but it is on […]
The future does not look bright.
For those with an internet connection and an interest, Minister of Information, Hassan al-Lawzi is on al-Jazeera at the moment. One of his statements stood out: "Yemen is suffering from […]
"The international community has very little understanding of this crisis,' OCHA Director Rashid Khalikov told the U.S. broadcaster after a four-day visit to Yemen."The Sa'dah war doesn't seem to be […]
I downloaded the new AQAP audio tape on Sunday, but I have yet to have a chance to either listen to it or to read the transcript that was also […]
One of the things I have noticed over the past few years is that when it comes to the big three pan-Arab dailies - al-Sharq al-Awsat, al-Hayat, al-Quds al-Arabi - […]
Another explosion in Abyan kills two more and wounds at least ten.Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports on differences among the Huthi leadership on who can be a leader and who can't, but […]
In today's version of the daily papers - late, as usual- I attempt to comment on all three of Yemen's security crises.Al-QaedaFirst, up is the al-Qaeda threat and the finances […]
Self-promotion post. New piece up in the ARB on the existential crisis- in both senses- that Yemen is facing. I don't think I explained it as well as I would […]
One of the difficulties of following or writing about Yemen is that alarmism tends to become a series of "oh, and also", which lessenes its impact. Right now it looks […]
The BBC and other news outlets are reporting that Qasim al-Raymi has been killed in an air strike today. If true - and this is not the first time that […]
The papers, at least in my cursory read this morning, are fairly quiet, although there is this interesting brief from UPI Arabic that ran in al-Quds al-Arabi. The piece revolves […]
The third time is the charm. 26th of September and a number of other newspapers are now reporting that Sunday's suicide bomber has been identified as Abd al-Rahman Mahdi Ali […]
Well, below, I promised a reader that I would write an absurdly long post on what has been keeping Yemen together. In the comment section though, Greg decided to undermine […]
Both Brian at Always Judged Guilty and Clint at Selected Wisdom have weighed in with their opinions on the suspected debate over whether or not to use drone strikes in […]
Unfortunately, I don't have time to blog about this, because I would really like to. Instead, it will have to be a link dump. First there is the audio tape […]
Read Khalid al-Hammadi's excellent piece on some Yemeni military officers being sentenced to death for collaborating with the Huthis. This seems to come out of the incredibly poor job of […]
Thanks to the many readers who have written in with the news that the new issue of Sada al-Malahim is out. Unfortunately, I am still busy with a couple of […]