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Saudi Arabia has no clear order of royal succession or promotion - at any level. The House of Saud is dominated by competing families each seeking to advance their power, wealth and patronage; and undercut rivals.
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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...
made popular Dec 24 2009
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...
made popular Dec 23 2009
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...
made popular Dec 18 2009
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...
made popular Nov 26 2009
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...
made popular Nov 24 2009
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...
made popular Nov 10 2009
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,...
made popular Nov 9 2009
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...
made popular Nov 7 2009
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...
made popular Nov 5 2009
Fighting between tribes and government troops. Tens of thousands more made refugee since last month. Thousands of civilians stuck in between. Over 200,000 refugees...
made popular Sep 14 2009
Reports from southern Yemen say at least three people were killed when police broke up an unauthorised demonstration in Aden.
Others were injured, and dozens of...
made popular May 22 2009
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