Yemeni forces planning ground offensive against the Houthis
Anti-Houthi “Yemeni militias are planning a ground offensive against the Houthis,” according to Yemeni and US officials cited by the Wall Street Journal. The plans follow over a month...
Aden
Why is Iran’s FM talking about ‘advanced centrifuges’?
Iran views the nuclear program as more than the sum of its parts.
Op-eds
The Houthi missile attack is Iran’s latest move
It’s worth thinking of the attack in light of Iran’s overall war against Israel in the region using its proxies rather than seeing it in a purely Houthi-centric context.
Op-eds
Three Killed by Houthis in Gulf of Aden
Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen killed three sailors on March 6 after a missile launched by the group hit a cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden. According to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM),...
Flash Briefs
CENTCOM: Houthis Carry Out Multiple Attacks on Red Sea Shipping
The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen carried out multiple attacks on shipping in or near the Southern Red Sea in recent days, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on January 18. Most...
Flash Briefs
Why is President Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia important now?
US President Barack Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia this week for meetings with King Salman and other leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council appears first and foremost to be about reassuranc...
Op-eds
Call it genocide
In the Yemeni port city of Aden earlier this month, Islamists attacked a Catholic home for the indigent elderly. The militants, believed to be soldiers of the Islamic State, shot the security gua...
Op-eds
Pariah State: Examining Sudan’s Support for Terrorism
***This article originally appeared in "State Sponsorship of Terrorism", a publication of IHS Defense, Risk and Security Consulting, in June 2012. Reproduced with permission © IHS (Global...
Op-eds
AQAP Overruns Yemeni Army Bases, Kills 32 Soldiers
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula attacked two Yemeni military bases in a contested area of southern Yemen today, killing 32 troops and capturing several more after overrunning the outposts....
Op-eds
Egyptian Jihadist Killed in Recent US Predator Strike in Yemen
An Egyptian jihadist who fought alongside al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its political front, Ansar al Sharia, was killed in a recent US drone strike in the southern Yemeni province of Sha...
Op-eds
AQAP Commander Thought Killed in US Drone Strike
A senior al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula leader who trained at a camp in Afghanistan more than a decade ago was killed in a recent airstrike in southern Yemen. The airstrike is one of two thoug...
Op-eds
AQAP Fighters Seize Control of Yemeni Town, Swear Allegiance to Zawahiri
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has taken control of yet another major town in Yemen. The AQAP fighters are led by the brother-in-law of Anwar al Awlaki, and they have sworn allegiance to Ayman...
Op-eds
AQAP Seizes Another Town in Southern Yemen
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has taken control of yet another town in southern Yemen. The town of Al Koud fell to the terror group on Monday after heavy fighting over the weekend. "...
Op-eds
AQAP Denies Emir Nasir al Wuhayshi Killed in US Airstrike
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has officially denied rumors that their emir, Nasir al Wuhayshi, was killed during fighting in southern Yemen last summer. The denial was published in "...
Op-eds
Are We Safer?
Yes, George W. Bush has made America more secure since 9/11.
Op-eds
Obama’s America Is September 10th America
This is June 2008. That means it marks the ten-year anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s indictment. He was first charged by my old office, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Sou...
Op-eds
The Slaughter That Muslims Could Not Ignore
Like all fundamentalists, Osama bin Laden was attuned to the past. When his speeches weren't about the economic decline of America, they recalled Islam's classical age, especially the r...
Op-eds
AQAP Operative Fahd al Quso Denies Reports of His Death
A top leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen who was rumored to have been killed in a US Predator airstrike in Pakistan has spoken to the media to quash the reports of his death. F...
Op-eds
Is Yemen the New Pakistan?
Is Yemen the new Pakistan, which was the new Afghanistan, which was the new Saudi Arabia, which was the new Egypt for jihadists seeking to strike the West? The recent attempted cargo-plane bombin...
Op-eds
Islam: Unmentionable in D.C.
The recent suicide bombing against Pashtun tribal elders in Mohmand, a region not far from Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, made my mind return to conv...