Source / Courtesy: NY Times By JOHN M. OWEN IV EGYPT’S final round of parliamentary elections won’t end until next week, but the outcome is becoming clear. The Muslim Brotherhood will most likely win half the lower house of Parliament, and more extreme Islamists will occupy a quarter. Secular parties […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS DAMMAM: Saudi Arabia has promised to donate fuel to Yemen with a view to helping the neighboring country tide over severe economic crisis and rising fuel shortage. The decision to help Yemen was first taken by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah […]
WASHINGTON — US officials suspect that Yemen fed them false intelligence for a 2010 strike against Al Qaeda suspects that killed a local leader locked in a dispute with the president’s family, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The disclosure of such an incident would complicate relations between the two […]
By REUTERS ARABNEWS DUBAI: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh flew to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to sign a deal brokered by Gulf states that would ease him from office, Yemeni […]
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon After an extended stay in the United States that allowed me to speak with Middle East specialists and interested citizens in many cities, I sense a new theme that broadly defines American attitudes to developments in the Middle East: perplexity. Of course, […]
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon At rare moments in life, history takes a sharp turn for the better, and sometimes you can see and feel this happening in front of your eyes. This past week was just such a moment for the Arab world, as three different […]
Sana’a: Hundreds of Yemeni women have set fire to a pile of traditional female veils to protest the government’s brutal crackdown against the country’s popular uprising. Read more
Source: International Crises Group Ten months of popular protest spiked by periodic outbursts of violence have done little to clarify Yemen’s political future. Persistent street protests so far have failed to oust President Ali Abdullah Saleh or bring about genuine institutional reform. The country is more deeply divided between pro- […]
Doha: Yemen’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakul Karman said the UN must act “immediately and decisively” to halt a deadly government crackdown on protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign. Tawakul urged the United Nations “to take immediate and decisive action to stop the massacres and hold the […]
ANTHONY SHADID and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK CAIRO — By force of this year’s Arab revolts and revolutions, activists marching under the banner of Islam are on the verge of a reckoning decades in the making: the prospect of achieving decisive power across the region has unleashed an unprecedented debate over […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS SANAA: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) urged Ali Abdullah Saleh to sign a power transfer plan “immediately” as forces loyal to the Yemeni president attacked pro-opposition troops with mortar shells and heavy gunfire Saturday and rooftop snipers picked off unarmed protesters fleeing in panic. The streets of […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star For those many honest people around the world perplexed by the variations and inconsistencies in so many aspects of the current citizen revolts across the Arab world, historical analogies may be a good starting point to understand the full dimensions and implications of […]
Jordan Times Turkey’s role and attempts at solving some major regional conflicts have increased, and the fact that Istanbul recently played host to two conferences on Libya and Syria is proof of the fact that the country is acknowledged as a linchpin by the nations in the area. The international […]
By SAEED AL-BATATI | ARAB NEWS SANAA: Yemen’s main opposition, the Joint Meeting Parties, has embarked on consultations to form a unilateral transitional council to replace the current government, a move that was strongly denounced by the government that warned of repercussions. Mohammed Al-Mutwikil, a senior opposition figure, told Arab […]
By MOHAMMED GHOBARI AND MOHAMMED MUKHASHAF | REUTERS SANAA/ADEN: Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh appeared on television on Thursday for the first time since an assassination attempt a month ago and said he was ready to share power within the constitution’s framework. Saleh, who is being treated in a Riyadh […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS ASTANA, Kazakhstan: The secretary-general of the renamed Organization of Islamic Cooperation has called for a decade of action on political reforms and peaceful resolutions for Palestine, Libya and Syria. “The Muslim world is confronted with some serious developments with direct impact on its stability, […]
By Peter Apps Reuters LONDON – From the streets of Cairo and Madrid to online forums and social media sites, “leaderless” protests are on the rise. But the very qualities that led to their short-term success may condemn them to failure in the long run. Activists in Egypt, Tunisia and […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon My pleasure at speaking this week in Ottawa at a gathering at the International Development Research Center of Canada was compounded by the very thoughtful questions and comments that members of the audience offered. The audience raised new questions in my mind […]
Osama bin Laden‘s youngest wife is expected to leave Pakistan for her homeland, Yemen, within days. Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, 29, has been held by security services since US special forces killed Bin Laden, whom she married in 1999. Sadah was wounded in the operation and detained by Pakistani authorities in the compound […]
By AHMED AL-HAJ | AP SANAA, Yemen: The head of Yemen’s most powerful tribal confederation warned Tuesday that Yemen could plunge into civil war if President Ali Abdullah Saleh is allowed to return home. Saleh is currently in Saudi Arabia, where he is receiving treatment for serious injuries from a […]