Yemen’s decade of division

Since the start of the decade, Yemeni society has gone through partisan splits that have devolved into sectarian divisions.

Yemen

Are UN Security Council anti-al-Qaeda terror statutes properly enforced?

The UN Security Council has established a regime for a travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo against the al-Qaeda network since 1999, but new circumstances bring about serious doubts if such a regime is still functioning.

Yemen

Al-Qaeda benefits from unsettled Yemen politics

Yemen’s Gulf Initiative, which gave President Ali Abdullah Saleh and many of his officers immunity in exchange for stepping down, has been followed by a rise in extremism.

Yemen

Yemeni women marginalized even in death

Yemeni officials have prevented the body of a woman killed during the Dec. 5 attack against a Defense Ministry hospital in Sanaa from being buried in the official martyrs’ cemetery.

Yemen

Yemen-Saudi love story highlights political tensions

The recent story of a Yemeni man and a Saudi woman who fell in love and fled to Yemen highlights long-standing political and social tensions between their two neighboring states.

Saudi Arabia

Yemeni tribal checkpoints take travelers off guard

In the past two years, checkpoints set up by gangs and tribes have become widespread in Yemen.

Yemen

Yemen wastes time

Yemen's National Dialogue is hindered by a lack of accountability and effective time management.

Yemen

Yemeni national dialogue needs jump-start

Innovation and fresh thinking are required to pull Yemen out of its current national impasse.

Yemen

Yemen’s harrowing transition

External influences are threatening to further weaken an already fragile transition in Yemen.

Yemen

Yemeni political, religious movements divided over nation's future

As the National Dialogue Conference works to resolve disputes in Yemen and pave the way for a democratic government, disputes among religious groups as well as with secularists continue.

Yemen

Re-emergence of the Yemeni left

Once a central fixture of Yemen’s political scene, the country’s leftist movement has been absent from the scene for the past two decades, but may be making a comeback.

Yemen

Tribal mediations undermine Yemen state institutions

Given the tribal nature of Yemeni society, disputes are often resolved via state-sponsored “mediation committees,” which undermine the state and rule of law.

Yemen