Archive: yemen
29th August 2010
With mediation from Qatar, the Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government have signed an agreement aimed at consolidating the ceasefire announced last February. Reuters reports:
"Among the main points of the agreement, rebels were required to return stolen Yemeni military weapons to their Qatari… Read more
25th August 2010
Thousands of Yemenis – possibly as many as 80,000, according to al-Jazeera – are reported to to have fled their homes in Lawdar (or Loder) as the authorities conduct a massive house-to-house search ostensibly aimed at rooting out al-Qaeda militants.
Details are sketchy because the city, in the… Read more
25th August 2010
Amnesty International says it is "extremely likely" that Saudi Arabia used British-supplied Tornado warplanes to bomb northern Yemenat the height of the Houthi conflict last year.
Saudi forces came to the aid of the Yemeni military against the rebels in November and operations continued until a… Read more
23rd August 2010
After spending two months among the jihadists in southern Yemen, Iraqi-born journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad presents the first of two reports for the Guardian. Choice quote:
At Faisal's house, I asked him what he thought of the government's attempt to crack down on al-Qaida.
"Don't believe the… Read more
22nd August 2010
If you've never sampled the delights of freshly-caught Yemeni salmon, don't worry. Neither has anyone else. Yemen has no permanent rivers and, consequently, no salmon.
'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' is the title of a comic/satirical novelby Paul Torday which won a couple of awards and was serialised… Read more
21st August 2010
In the latest fighting in southern Yemen, a dozen or more soldiers and several civilians were killed during a battle near the marketplace in Lawdar, Abyan province, yesterday.
The ruling party's website blames "terrorist elements from al-Qaeda and some outlaw elements cooperating with them". In… Read more
17th August 2010
The assassinations of intelligence officers in southern Yemen continued yesterday with the shooting of Abdulkarim al-Dalei in Zinjibar. It was the seventh such attack in just over two months (see below), and there is clearly a pattern here: individual officers are being picked off – often by gunmen… Read more
15th August 2010
A Yemeni intelligence officer, Colonel Ali Abdul Kareem al-Ban, was shot dead outside his home in Lahej late on Friday. Reuters quotesan unnamed official as saying that al-Qaeda is suspected.
However, AFP implies that he may have been targeted by southern secessionists. It points out that the… Read more
6th August 2010
The targeting of members of the security forces (here, here andhere) continues in southern Yemen. Yesterday, three more wereshot dead in Zinjibar near the intelligence headquarters by masked men riding a motorcycle.
In what may be an unrelated incident, a soldier blew himself up in front of the… Read more
3rd August 2010
Following last week's report that the Houthi rebels had captured200 Yemeni soldiers and a subsequent official denial (of sorts), the picture is clearing.
On Saturday, the Supreme Security Committee admitted that the rebels had "kidnapped" 228 soldiers and tribesmen (including Sheikh Sagheer Bin… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
