May 30, 2012

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Officials: U.S. Building Secret Drone Bases In Africa, Arabian Peninsula

The Washington Post | Craig Whitlock and Greg Miller | Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Hunter Killer Drones, Yemen, Seychelles, Ethiopia, Counterterrorism, Pakistan, Horn of Africa, Africa, Drone Strikes, Somalia, Drones, Arabian Peninsula, Al Qaeda, World News

The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Pen...

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Yemen Forces Open Fire, Kill More Than 20 Demonstrators

AP | AHMED AL-HAJ and BEN HUBBARD | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Zinjibar, Yemen, Middle East Protests, Radical Islamists, Sanaa, Taiz, Arabian Peninsula, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Al Qaeda, World News

SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni forces opened fire on a protest camp and killed more than 20 demonstrators Monday in the southern city of Taiz while gover...

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Al Qaeda Bomb Plans Published On Web Site: Editors Boast About $4,200 Cost Of Attack

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Operation Hemorrhage, Terror Cost, Cost of Bomb, Al Qaeda, Bomb Plans, Saudi Arabia, Terrorism, Al-Qaida, Airline Bombings, Plane Bombs, Petn, Arabian Peninsula, Fed Ex, World News

WASHINGTON — Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula is promising more small-scale attacks like its attempts to bomb two U.S.-bound cargo planes, which it...

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Midwest Girl Living in a Mid East World

Anne Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ex-Pat, Gulf States, Middle East, Northwestern University, Sheikha Mozah, Qatar, Arabian Peninsula, Dubai, Travel News

Despite the fact I find the desert area outside of the beautiful seaside Corniche and cosmopolitan downtown rather dreary, I am having a love affair with Qatar.

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Al Qaeda Plans For Israel War

The Daily Beast | Bruce Riedel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yemen, Israel, Al Qaeda, Terrorists@Y:World, Terrorism, Arabian Peninsula, Israel War, World News

The terror group's arm in Yemen is ordering jihadists across the region to ready themselves for a war "by the Jews against Iran" that will spread acro...

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Yemeni Government Plans to Short-Circuit Broadcast/Online Media: Activists

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

According to Yemeni sources, the government is strong-arming parliament to ram through the legislation to avoid any debate of the matter by journalists' unions, media representatives and civil society groups.

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Iran: Airlines Must Say 'Persian Gulf' Or Face Airspace Ban

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Persian Gulf, Kish Air, Iran Airlines, Press TV, Hamid Behbahani, Iran Airspace, Arabian Peninsula, Arabic Gulf, World News

Airlines must use the term 'Persian Gulf' rather than 'Arabian Gulf' to describe the body of water separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula, or face...

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Al-Qaida In The Arabian Peninsula Claims Responsibility For Attempted Airliner Attack

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaida Yemen, Yemen, Al Qaida, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Northwest Flight Attack, Al Qaida Arabian Peninsula, Northwest Flight 253, Christmas Day Terrorist Attack, Arabian Peninsula, Al Qaeda, World News

HONOLULU — President Barack Obama on Monday vowed to use "every element of our national power" to keep Americans safe and said the failed Christ...

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Al-Qaida In The Arabian Peninsula Expands Operations

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Qaida Yemen, Yemen, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaida, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Arabian Peninsula, World News

CAIRO — Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which claimed responsibility for the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner bound for Detroit, is led by...

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Arabia Felix 103: Despite Crippling Travails, Yemen Draws Eager Tourists

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aramco World, Ali Abdallah Saleh, Al Qaeda, El Greco, Kidnappings, Al Saleh Mosque, Poverty, Terrorism, Dar El Hajar, Yemen Today, Sana?A, War, Houthi, Romans, Yemen, Al Beik Shibani, Separatists, Arab World, Arabian Peninsula, Koran, Janbiyya, King Solomon, Illiteracy, Arabia Felix, G. Lankester Harding, Toledo, Queen of Sheba, Bait Baws, Sana'A, World News

The inhospitable terrain, weather and occasional kidnapping of foreigners may keep the faint-hearted at bay, but itinerant archeologists, scholars and adventure seekers still flock to Arabia Felix.

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Arabia Felix 101: Yemen in the Grips of Unrest

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ali Abdallah Saleh, Al Qaeda, An-Nahar, Zaidi, Khaled Misha?Al, Guantanamo, Lebanon, Iraq, U.S., Hezbollah, Salah Al Shanfara, The Losing Bet, Arabian Peninsula, Shafee Saif, United Arab Emirates, Chatham House, Yemen Times, Saudi Arabia, Al Manar, Najib Ghalab, Ramadan, Al Hayat, Carsten Niebuhr, Nasser Al Waheeshi (Abu Baseer), Palestinian, Sana?A, Yemen, Jihadi, Hamas, Qat, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Osama Bin Laden, Al Hirak Al Jounoubi (Southern Movement), Abu Bakr Al Qurbi, Al Yaman Al Saeed, Ginny Hill, Kuwait, Arab, Asharq Al-Awsat, Arabia Felix, Afghanistan, Hassan Nasrallah, Sa?Ada Province, Sunni, 21st Century, Danish, Moslem, Houthis, Orientalist, Hadramawt, Wahabi, Israel, Sana'A, World News

Yemen has mounted a tight security plan for the holy Moslem month of Ramadan starting this week in a bid to thwart any new terrorist attacks, the Yemen Times reported.

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Arab Women Beginning To Crack The Glass Ceiling

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

Noor Al-Fayez is the new deputy minister for women's education in Saudi Arabia, a country where women are still not allowed to drive a car.

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