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Inside Yemen's Shadow War Arsenal

August 8, 2013, Gordon Lubold and Noah Shachtman

National Reconciliation in the Arab Spring Countries: Lessons from Bulgaria, Iraq, Morocco, and South Africa

June 19, 2013

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Finishing the Job: Security Sector Reform After the Arab Spring

May 28, 2013, Omar Ashour

Building New Democracies: Institutional Reform after the Arab Spring

May 22, 2013

A Lasting Peace? Yemen's Long Journey to National Reconciliation

February 11, 2013, Ibrahim Sharqieh

Improving the Quality of Basic Education for the Future Youth of Yemen Post Arab Spring

January 2013, Takako Yuki and Yuriko Kameyama

Is Yemen’s Power Struggle Over?

December 21, 2012, Ibrahim Sharqieh

U.S.-Yemeni Terror Obsession Will Not Solve Yemen's Woes

November 13, 2012, Ibrahim Sharqieh

Yemen and the Fight Against a Resurgent al Qaeda

November 13, 2012

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Why Yemen is the Scariest Challenge Facing Obama Abroad

November 9, 2012, Bruce Riedel

Resilient Royals: How Arab Monarchies Hang On

October 15, 2012, F. Gregory Gause, III and Sean L. Yom

Campaign 2012: Arab Awakening

September 25, 2012

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A Stubborn Terror

September 10, 2012, Bruce Riedel

The Yemeni Model Probably Won’t Fit Syria Now

August 21, 2012, Ibrahim Sharqieh

Let’s Admit It: The U.S. Is at War in Yemen, Too

June 14, 2012, Spencer Ackerman and Noah Shachtman

Yemen Can't Do It Alone

June 1, 2012, Ibrahim Sharqieh

Al Qaeda’s "Final Trap" in Yemen: Costly Demise Planned for U.S.

May 27, 2012, Bruce Riedel

The problem [of terrorist groups in Yemen] for the U.S. is this really is a race against time. We've been lucky because AQAP [Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] has gotten a bomb on a plane twice. ... This is a race to see if they can pull off a strike on the U.S. homeland or if we can take out AQAP's top leadership.

May 23, 2012, Bruce Riedel, US News

[I]n Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is growing, getting more powerful, recruiting more assets and taking advantage of the fact that Yemen is essentially the Humpty Dumpty of the Arabian Peninsula — it's falling apart, broken.

May 9, 2012, Bruce Riedel, CNN

Ibrahim al Asiri: al Qaeda's 'Genius' Bomb Maker

May 8, 2012, Bruce Riedel

Pakistan and the Terror Threat: One Year after the Death of Bin Laden

April 26, 2012

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Focus on Al Qaeda in Yemen Magnifies Chronic Instability

April 25, 2012, Ibrahim Sharqieh

Focus on Al Qaeda in Yemen Magnifies Chronic Instability

April 25, 2012

What Focusing on Drones and Detention Misses

April 20, 2012, Kevin Watkins and Rebecca Winthrop

From Protests to Politics, a New Way Forward for Yemen

March 16, 2012, Ibrahim Sharqieh