On Thursday, the Center for National Policy hosted a panel discussion entitled, "Death from Above: Drones and Targeted Killings." The panel featured Peter Bergen, Director of the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation, and Christopher Swift, Adjunct ...

A Yemeni court upheld the death sentence of Mubarak Hadi al-Shabwani, prompting members of al-Shabwan tribe to blow up power lines near the Yemeni capital. The attack led to the loss of electricity throughout Sana'a, reversing progress on improving the ...

On Tuesday (10/2), the Wilson Center hosted two panel discussion in their series entitled; "Women after the Arab Awakening." The first panel, "Today's View from the Ground", featured Dalia Ziada, Executive Director of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies ...

International donors pledged an additional $1.5 billion for Yemen's political and humanitarian programs on Thursday at the fourth annual Friends of Yemen conference, on top of the $6.4 billion pledged at a similar meeting last month. U.S. Deputy ...

At the U.N. General Assembly on September 26 Abd Rabbuh Mansur al-Hadi, President of the Republic of Yemen, and Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah, provided similar messages in their speeches.  Both addressed a recent provocative anti-Islamic film, criticizing ...

On September 25, President Barack Obama spoke at the U.N. General Assembly focusing heavily on foreign policy in the Middle East. His speech addressed recent violence directed at U.S. embassies, reiterated the administration’s support for democratic reform, encouraged ...

Following a week of attacks and protests in Sana'a, the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, told the Security Council that “the transition is on track, but there have been challenges – serious challenges in various areas, including in ...

On September 14, Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and Bob Corker (R-TN), both members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,  introduced S. 3551, a bill requiring investigations into a report on the September 11-12, 2012, attacks on ...

The U.S. dispatched an emergency team of Marines to help secure the U.S. Embassy in Sana'a over the weekend, despite a statement by the Yemeni parliament that rejected "any foreign forces in Yemen, be it small or big forces, ...

Thousands of Yemenis took to the streets on Tuesday in support of government transparency and the prosecution of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, just hours after a large explosion ripped through Sana'a. The march appeared to be the largest of its kind in ...

At an international donors conference in Riyadh, international donors pledged additional $2.4 billion in aid to Yemen, bringing the total to $6.4 billion promised this year. However, Yemen's Planning and International Cooperation Minister Mohammed al-Saadi said Yemen will ...

The BBC has published a brief overview of uprisings across the Middle East, from the incremental reform movement in Morocco, to the sectarian clashes in Bahrain. In Egypt, the BBC reports that protests were "driven by poverty, rising prices, ...

On August 30, Yemeni Minister of Legal Affairs Mohamed Mikhlafi announced the creation of an new election committee ahead of a round of elections which are slated to take place within the next two months. "The coming period ...

Yemen's national organization for defending rights and freedoms, HOOD, reported "about 207 complaints of detentions beyond the legal limits and recorded 163 extrajudicial arrests including 93 by the security authorities, mostly in the capital Sanaa, 37 by military units ...

Prominent Bahraini opposition activist, Maryam al-Khawaja, was denied entry into Egypt Sunday. Khawaja, daughter of human rights activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja who was  sentenced to life in prison for his in role in last year's uprising, has been an outspoken critic ...