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My contributor copies to the forthcoming issue of The American Interest just came in the mail, and for those of you hoping to get your hands on a copy of […]
Lolita C. Baldor, who does excellent work for the AP, has this story on the Treasury Department freezing the assets of certain individuals who are either "involved in piracy off […]
Now that I have returned to the Princeton and given all the news that has been coming out of Yemen - or perhaps more accurately, been coming out about Yemen […]
US Senator John Kerry has an op-ed in The National today on the way forward for Yemen.He makes a number of very good points. The most important of which, in […]
As most of the wires are reporting, AQAP has put up a statement, #29, taking credit for the parcel bomb plot as well as for bringing down a UPS plane […]
For those with an interest - or possibly just want to critique me like I do to others - you can tune into CNN later this evening (say a little […]
My own offerings on the Huthi conflict - or at least what I believe the war is all about - are now up in a piece over at the National.
One thing your buddies at Waq al-Waq like to do is talk about the broad scope of Yemen, including its economy. I'm sure you've all heard that it is: not […]
Some in Yemen are worried about the potential influence of Saudi Arabia and the kingdom's religious thought on Yemen, following a meeting Sunday in San'a between Islamists from both countries. […]
I've said this before, but sometimes things bear repeating. Plus, I don't always have new ideas. But I think an incident from today in Shabwa illustrates the difficulties of assigning […]
A little over seven years ago, an unmanned US drone killed the head of al-Qaeda in Yemen, Abu 'Ali al-Harithi, and with his death it effectively destroyed al-Qaeda in the […]
It is another rainy Saturday and Nebraska has yet to kick-off, so I suppose we have time to at least temporarily resurrect our morning papers section of the blog.By all […]
There is a new AQAP audiotape, The Crusader Attack on Yemen, out today from one of the group's religious figures, 'Adil al-'Abab. Al-'Abab, who also goes by the kunya Abu […]
Waq al-waq wishes all of our readers the best during the month of Ramadan. (A bit late, but we won't let that stop us.)
Muhammad al-Qadhi has this article in the National, which discusses the latest clashes between al-Huthi supporters and the potential for a sixth round of all out war between the two […]
You have got to admire a journalist who does not mess around with burying a cliche, but just goes ahead and leads with it. I disagree with a handful of […]
The more I read this piece from the NY Times on al-Qaeda moving from Pakistan to Yemen and Somalia the less convinced I am. There seems to be a great […]
Thanks to the beauty of wireless internet (it is called WiFi, yes?) and Philadelphia, which has become one of my favorite cities over the past few months, I have a […]
There is too much and it is too late for an actual post, but the week ahead at Waq al-waq will feature:1. Commentary on AQAP's statement on the Huthi attacks […]
Western papers are leading with the news that Yemeni forces have killed two al-Qaeda suspects. Not so fast, says Mareb Press, which actually names the two individuals killed - Nur […]