Articles tagged with: Al-Qaeda
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
In 2008, the then fresh-faced US presidential hopeful Barack Obama promised to shut down the detention center that had become famous as a symbol of the presidency of George W. Bush: Guantanamo Bay. He described it as a “sad chapter in American history.”
Yet, five years on, and now into Obama’s second term, Guantanamo is still open for business and continues to hold many of those the US terms ‘enemy combatants’ without charge.
More than half of the 166 men still detained are Yemeni. ...
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
STANFORD, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years ago yesterday, the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was rocked by three near-simultaneous suicide bombings at housing compounds for expatriates. Over 30 people died and 160 were injured in what was, and remains, the deadliest terrorist attack in the kingdom’s history. The bombing came as a shock to most Saudis and robbed the country of its relative innocence as far as internal violence was concerned. After decades of calm, Saudi Arabia suddenly became the scene ...
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Thursday, 2 May, 2013
The counter-terrorism partnership between Yemen and the United States of America dates back to the very dawn of Washington's war against Al-Qaeda in 2001, when then-President Ali A...
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Tuesday, 30 Apr, 2013
Exactly a decade after the US invasion toppled Saddam Hussein, sectarian tensions are again threatening to turn back the clock in Iraq. The trigger this time was the storming o...
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Tuesday, 30 Apr, 2013
Turkey became a true multi-party democracy in 1950, and it has been holding free and fair elections ever since. Not counting the four years spent under military leadership followin...
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Friday, 26 Apr, 2013
It seems that US drone attacks in Yemen have resumed after a months–long halt. However, American drone attacks and their attendant “collateral damage” have become increasingl...
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Wednesday, 27 Mar, 2013
A number of new jihadi fronts for recruitment and combat have opened up as a result of the upheaval ensuing from the Arab Spring. From the Arabian Peninsula, through Syria and ...
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Tuesday, 26 Mar, 2013
CASABLANCA, Asharq Al-Awsat—Morocco has increased the security on its borders with Algeria and Mali in anticipation of jihadists fleeing northern Mali as a result of French a...
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Tuesday, 12 Feb, 2013
Since the March 2012 military coup that toppled former president Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali has been in the throes of its worst political crisis. The West African country, which o...
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Monday, 21 Jan, 2013
While Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki is in no position to refuse Tehran, his own power calculations have driven a continued relationship with Damascus, even twenty-one mo...
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