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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yemen has renamed Iran Boulevard, a street in its country, to Neda Soltan Street, named after the young female protestor who was shot and killed in June on videotape that quickly spread around the world. Her name has since become a rallying cry for Iranian opposition activists of all kinds and human rights advocates around the world. Yemen isn’t exactly a model for human rights, but they deserve...
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Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard already touched on this, but this article’s importance needs to be reemphasized: Iran is actively trying to stir up internal discontent in Saudi Arabia. This follows the dispatching of naval forces including mini-submarines in the Gulf of Aden ostensibly to fight Somali piracy. This is a MAJOR escalation and as Rich said, indicates this war is Iran’s main concern right now. A street...
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Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Amnesty International PUBLIC STATEMENT 27 November 2009 Index: MDE 31/017/2009 Yemen: Government should announce commitment to tackle ‘widespread’ torture Amnesty International today urged the Yemeni government to publicly announce its commitment to implementing the recommendations issued last week by the UN Committee against Torture, following its regrettable failure earlier this month...
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Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
As the holiday of Eid al-Adha approaches, our thoughts are with tens of thousands of displaced people in northern [...]
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Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saudi Arabia claims it has captured a strategic mountain on its side of the border with Yemen in its campaign against Shia Houthi fighters.2009/11/29
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | yesterday
The rebels, called Houthis, are followers of the Zaidi sect of Shiite Islam, and the Saudis believe both that they have ties to Shiite-dominated Iran and have Al Qaeda members within their ranks.
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington Post: ... Yemen's handling of former Guantanamo detainees and accused extremists in its own jails has raised fears that sending detainees back to this nation, the poorest in the Arab world, might only create more militants determined to attack America. Disputes over the fates of 97 Yemeni detainees, roughly 40 percent of the current prison population at Guantanamo, are a key reason President...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yemeni Omar Barsawad shares with us information on the Yemeni capital San'aa. “Be it in Sana'a Old City or the mud bricked houses of Hadhramout, Yemen's architecture remains very much traditional and unique. And is still being preserved in most parts of the country,” he notes.
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News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.N. says children made to fight on both sides of conflict between the Yemeni government and rebels. Children are being recruited in the battle between the Yemeni army and local rebels in the north of the country, a United Nations expert has said. The United Nations' expert on child soldiers has begun an investigation into the use of underage combatants by both sides of the conflict in northern Yemen....
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
From The Washington Post: ADEN, YEMEN -- Two years ago, Mohsin al-Askari was released from his prison cell at Guantanamo Bay, but he has found neither freedom nor a new life in his homeland. Potential employers are afraid to hire him. At 28, he depends on his father for financial support, charities for medical care. With each rejection, his frustration grows, as does the temptation to return to his...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
An engineer abducted by armed tribesmen in Yemen returned to Japan Friday night following his release and was met by his family. Tekeo Mashimo, 63, told reporters at Tokyo's Haneda airport he was "moved" and "glad" to see his wife, Kyoko, upon arrival at the airport.
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
ADEN, YEMEN -- Two years ago, Mohsin al-Askari was released from his prison cell at Guantanamo Bay, but he has found neither freedom nor a new life in his homeland. Potential employers are afraid to hire him. At 28, he depends on his father for financial support, charities for medical care.
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Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) deplores the plight of children in northern Yemen where Yemeni and Saudi forces attack Shia al-Houthi fighters' villages. 2009/11/28
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Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Armed southern activists ended on Friday their protest which had closed down a main highway in Yemen in a resurgence of separatist unrest against the government.2009/11/28
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