The United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against the Al-Qaeda terror network in Yemen, accoding to The New York Times newspaper. A year ago,...

The secretive U.S. air strike against suspected al-Qaida in Yemen last week is the latest in what has been a fast-growing campaign to better equip and fund Yemeni...

With Yemen apparently on the verge of becoming the world’s next failed state and a regional base for al-Qaeda, a series of U.S.-assisted air and ground assaults...

For years now, Yemen - which only reunited as a country roughly 20 years ago - has been in the heat of civil strife. Northern tribes - Houtis - citing neglect by the...

Yemen today claimed to have killed 34 members of al-Qaida and captured 17 others in security operations in a country in which a growing jihadi presence is ringing alarm...

In case you did not figure it out, my title is ironic. The Saudi army is, of course, cause for hilarity. Saudi Arabia has no means of efficient self-defense and relies...

For Yemenis, the mild narcotic qat is as much a part of life as an after-dinner drink in the West and, as with brandies, connoisseurs want the best varieties. But the...

For years just an obscure fight raging in remote desert mountains, Yemen’s war with Shiite rebels has been dragged up to a new level, inflaming the rivalry...

In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the...

“It will soon be the end of the jambia,” bemoans Khaled al-Saikal, an antiques dealer in the souk of the Old City in Sanaa whose windows are brimming with...

Yemen has repeated its accusation that Iran is funding Houthi rebel fighters in their war against government forces in the north of the country. General Yahya Salih,...

Yemen’s President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, flew into the Gulf of Aden on Nov. 7 to celebrate the first exports of liquefied natural gas from a sprawling $4.5 billion...

Saudi Arabia is experiencing a patriotic high. Saudi media is beeming with pride. Saudi Arabia’s armed forced are courageously fighting against Yemeni Hawthi...

Rebels in northern Yemen have said they shot down a Yemeni fighter jet that was attacking their strongholds on Sunday. The government in Sanaa has denied the claim,...

While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen’s central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government’s...

Yemen’s civil war spilled into neighbouring Saudi Arabia for the first time yesterday when Shia gunmen shot dead a Saudi security officer in a cross-border...

There are not many Jews left in Yemen. In fact, there are not many Jews in any Muslim-dominated country. Despite the fact that they pre-date Muslims in the Middle...

A number of displaced Yemenis have been killed during a fight between the army and rebels at a camps run by the UN refugee agency, the agency has said. The UNHCR...

A lot is made in the American press about Arab worries (really the worries of illegitimate and authoritarian Arab regimes, no more and no less) of a nuclear Iran. In...

It was sometime after 2 a.m. when gunfire and mortars startled Oqaba Mohammed out of sleep. She thanked God she was alive and quickly gathered her four children,...