In the latest issue of Sada al-Malahim, the Internet magazine of the Al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen, urged its followers to use small bombs “in airports in the western crusade countries that participated in the war against Muslims: or on their planes, or in their residential complexes or their subways.”

As you know, I’ve been [...]

Today, my story on Yemen’s many escalating problems publishes in the World Policy Journal. It’s an intimate look into the barrage of issues that plague the nation that perhaps the biggest imports last year were refugee’s and extremists.
Yemen may not yet be front-page news, but it’s a being watched intensely these days in capitals worldwide. [...]

Some of my coverage of Yemen is in today’s BBC Middle East News. Click here to see it.

I’m spending my last evening in Yemen on the roof of my hotel overlooking the ancient city of Tiaz, enjoying the salty breeze from the Red Sea, and listening to the call to prayer as it is echoes across the city. Sitting here, as twilight approaches and bathes the city in a gorgeous warm light, [...]

“This is the first food I’ve eaten in four days,” Habiba Mohammad Hassan, a 17 year old Somali tells me as we wedged ourselves into the back of a truck with over 40 other refugees and opens a packet of high energy biscuits. Hassan, and 150 others, just spent the last two days crossing the [...]

I arrived in Yemen yesterday with  contradictory mental ideas of the country. It’s the place where Noah’s Ark was launched and Osama bin Landen’s father was born. It is a country where Westerners are kidnapped by tribesmen but rarely harmed, where suicide bombers struck the USS Cole, where young women dance and chew qat with [...]