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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 […]
Headline! Shi'ites Warn Of New War In YemenLede! "The Iranian-sponsored Shi'ite revolt could again erupt inYemen."If you follow Yemen, you probably know there are a few things wrong here. If […]
Thanks to the good people at the Carnegie Endowment, Tuesday's event is now on-line for any and all who weren't able to make it but still might have an interest. […]
One can sometimes get the impression - not from reading this blog, of course - that all Islamists are violent, even if they aren't all al-Qaeda. For those, I would […]
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 […]