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The decision to bomb the Houthis was likely the administration’s least bad path. Read More...
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Britannia once ruled the waves. As the Houthis threaten global shipping, U.K. naval power is reprising its old role. Read More...
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Over the past three days, more
than 50 suspected members of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula have been killed
in a spate of mysterious attacks in Yemen. But what really happened? That very
much depends on the news story you read. The Guardian attributed...
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Yemen has sentenced eight sailors for smuggling arms to local
rebels. The crew of the Jihan sailors received sentences ranging from one to six years in prison; the alleged mastermind of the operation, tried in absentia, received ten. No one in the Jihan...
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Saudi Arabia has long relied on foreign workers to fill millions of low-paying construction, clerical and service jobs, in many cases illicitly. But as the government cracks down on illegal workers, tens of thousands of Filipino and Indonesian migrants...
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Earlier this month, as the United States rushed to shutter embassies in response to a terrorist threat, New Zealand's prime minister made a remarkable but largely overlooked assertion. According to John Key, there are al Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula...
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Even the spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington, D.C. is having a hard time believing a plot by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
that the Yemeni government says it foiled. Several news agencies -- including the BBC , the New
York Times , and...
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As new details have emerged about the terrorist threat that forced the closure of 19 U.S. diplomatic posts and the evacuation of American and British personnel from Yemen, officials have repeatedly raised alarms about how remarkably specific this particular...
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Think fast: Is al Qaeda defeated? Is it stronger than ever? Or
is it both? Not sure? You're in good company. Terrorism analysts can't
decide either, and the threat of an attack by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which has shuttered U.S. and...
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News broke yesterday afternoon that, after a nearly
three-year-long imprisonment, Yemeni journalist Abdulelah Haider Shaye had been
released by the Yemeni government. Shaye's work drew international attention in
2009 when he reported on a U.S. airstrike...
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Said al-Shihri, the second-in-command of al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), has reportedly been killed. But unlike previous (and premature) reports of his death -- and there have been many -- this time the news came straight from the source, in...
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Barack Obama's counterterrorism speech on Thursday has drawn mixed
reviews here in the United States (here at FP , Rosa
Brooks gave the address an A-, while Emile
Simpson found it to be a "conceptual car crash") -- and reactions have been...
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Yemen's transitional government is signaling that it may
release Abdulelah Haider Shaye, a Yemeni journalist who was arrested
in August 2010 and who U.S. intelligence
officials believe supported al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Shaye was sentenced...
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Samir Naji al-Hasan Moqbel has been held at Guantánamo Bay
for more than 11 years. For the past two months, he has been on a hunger
strike, which he described in the editorial pages of the New York Times today: I could have been home years ago -- no one...
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Said al-Shihri just won't stay dead. Each time the deputy
emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has reportedly been killed, he has popped
up again several months later with a new piece of propaganda. He did so after supposedly
being killed in...