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As Yemen's National Dialogue approaches -- an ambitious
effort to reconcile the country's many tribal, political, and sectarian
factions as part of its transition from Ali Abdullah Saleh's 33-year rule --
Human Rights Watch has pushed a new...
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Yemen's tribal practice of kidnapping to extort concessions
by the government in Sanaa and ransom payments from abroad has two faces. At
one extreme is the romanticized version of rural tribesmen taking hostages and,
in accordance with Yemeni tribal...
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It was a year ago yesterday that Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi was
formally made president of Yemen in a national referendum. He succeeded the
three-decade rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh, who finally yielded to international
pressure to step down amid a popular...
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Said al-Shihri is dead again, maybe this
time for good. As the deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, he is
the highest ranking official in AQAP to be killed since the organization
emerged in January 2009. He's had some near misses since...
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More than a year after President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed
to step down -- and almost two years after protests against his dictatorship
flooded the streets of Sanaa -- Yemen's political crisis continues. Saleh was
formally ousted in February in a...
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MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Speaking at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C. this afternoon,
President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi of Yemen expressed unwavering support
for the controversial CIA drone...
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Sa'id al-Shihri, the deputy emir of al Qaeda in the Arabian
Peninsula (AQAP), was killed today in the Yemeni province of Hadramawt according to the Yemeni Ministry of Defense. The report was met with skepticism by some
Yemen experts. al-Shihri has...
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Yemen's defense ministry today claimed its forces killed a senior al Qaeda leader, Ayedh al Shabwani, in southern
Yemen on Tuesday. In a statement on its website, the ministry said the man was
killed during intense fighting in the largely lawless...
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There are mixed reports about the health
of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh -- recovering in Saudi Arabia from an
attack on his palace earlier this month -- and whether he's planning on
returning home to his embattled country anytime soon. Reuters...
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Yemeni prisons have been
criticized as overcrowded and under-monitored radicalization factories where
the government sometimes stuffs people it doesn't know what to do with -- at
times without trial. And every few years, a spectacular mass escape...
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It's been a tough couple of weeks for al Qaeda. Since the successful Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the terror network has suffered additional losses that analysts say are taking a heavy toll on the group. Ilyas Kashmiri, al Qaeda's...
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A Bahraini security court sentenced 20-year-old student Ayat al-Qurmezi to one year in prison yesterday. The young woman,
infamous for her February recitation of an anti-government poem in Pearl
Square, has been found guilty of speaking out against the...