History of Yemen: Minaeans, Himyarite Kingdom, Aksumite Empire, Sassanid Empire, Islamic history of Yemen, Modern history of Yemen, Mutawakkilite ... 1994 civil war in Yemen, North Yemeni rial
Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well well well if i ever thote the first few days were gonna be uneventful and relaxed i was wrong the flight to manchester was absolutely fine but the hour delay meant that we had 2 run for the plane in heathrow from terminal 5 to 3 the otherside of the airport. if that wasnt bad enuf the security lady also an asian woman didnt check bill or ross but made me take my belt and shoes off po
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | yesterday
A meeting between the Yemeni president and a US delegation led by John McCain instigated the new round of fighting in northern Yemen, a report says. At the time of the meeting, back in August, it was announced that the former US presidential candidate was meeting with Ali Abdullah Saleh to discuss the possibility of recruiting al-Qaeda forces for the Yemeni army, the Al-Minbar website reported. According...
Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | yesterday
God bless them and give them strength. I don’t know how they do it for 22 weeks in a row, but when its your friend, its hard to turn away. That much I know. The Twenty-Fourth Sit-In to Demand the Release of Alayyam Newspaper and Journalist Mohamed Almaqaleh and journalists Alsaglade and Rashid On [...]
Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | yesterday
281 machine guns could spell trouble, Mumbai style. The cache is linked to the 44 arrested educated Saudis who were thought to be financing the weapons purchases. Saudi Gazette RIYADH/DUBAI – New details have emerged concerning the discovery of the weapons stash at an “istiraha” rest house near Riyadh and the arrest of 44 suspected [...]
Armies of Liberation (Free subscription) | yesterday
I think it was Dhalie but Im going back through all the things I need to post, so it may take a bit to get to it. Also truck captured and burned in Dhalie. Things are much more violent since al Fahdli and al Beidh joined the movement. I hope rational leaders [...]
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Governments far beyond Yemen's borders should also be alarmed at the deteriorating security in a country that has long been a breeding ground for the religious extremists of al-Qaeda, writes Roula Khalaf
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yemeni government troops fighting rebels in the country's north have killed a rebel leader, officials say.
Dave's World (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was Political Officer in Jidda in the late '70s in the US Embassy and was accustomed to receiving long missives from the US Amb to Yemen, Tom Scotes, who would dash off three half-dozen page analyses of the Yemeni political situation [which I also covered from a Pol/Mil slant] every week, or so it seemed. Finally, Amb Tom Pickering from Jordan arrived in Jidda with three black Chevy Suburbans armed...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A bitter local conflict threatens to spread across the region MUHAMMAD REDWAN and his family were being hammered from all sides. In early August, rebels from Yemen’s Houthi clan took over his village in the rugged mountains of the Malahid district, near the border with Saudi Arabia. First they harassed him, telling him not to listen on his television to music that “contradicted the values...
Jihad Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you have been paying attention - and even if you have not - by now you know that something is going on in Yemen. You have heard about the "Houthis" - that is, a group of Shi'a, who have named themselves after a leader of one of their tribes,...
Solomonia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ryan Mauro: Iranians and Saudis Fight a Proxy War in Yemen...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
by Ryan Mauro Iran is now waging a proxy war against Saudi Arabia and Yemen by supporting a radical sect of Zaydi Shiites described as the Houthis, after the founder of their movement. The Iranians aren’t merely trying to destabilize Arab countries that are aligned too closely to the U.S.; they are trying to create a Shiite empire extending from Iran through southern Iraq to Syria — where...
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Sana’a, Yemen – Two people, believed to be of Houthi rebels, have been arrested in connection with plans to assassinate a Jewish Rabbi in Yemen, the News Yemen reported on Thursday. The website quoting sources which asked not to be identified said the two came to the Tourist City in Sana’a early this week claiming their [...]
The Jawa Report (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I'm speechless. These kids are IN the UN camp, and there's not enough food or medicine apparently to save them. Imagine the thousands of families sheltering outside the camps without any support whatsoever. They must be starving to death rapidly....
People Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yemen is to release an Egyptian fishing vessel along with its crew from captivity and another 11 imprisoned men of Egyptian nationals in the coming days, the Yemeni Interior Ministry said on Thursday. The Egyptian fishing vessel with its crew has been held for nearly two months in captivity by the Yemeni Coast-guard in al-Hudaidah port on the Red Sea over what authorities say illegally entering into...
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