Ali Abdullah Saleh was released from hospital yesterday. He was there for over 2 months, following the bombing of Sanaa, his official residence. He will not be returning there but will stay in Riyadh. It is intended that this will be a temporary stop for him, as he continues his recuperation. Saleh has had a…
Category Archives: Yemen
Car Bomb in Yemen Kills British Citizen
According to witnesses in Yemen’s southernmost port city of Aden, a car exploded after a man entered the car and turned on the motor. A person passing by the area was also badly injured in the explosion. The explosion occurred in an area known as Moalla, not far from a hotel which is the headquarters…
Yemen in Turmoil After President Injured
Yemini President Saleh Injured On June 3rd the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh was seriously injured in what appears to have been a bombing on the presidential palace. The following day Saleh, aged 69, was evacuated from the capital of Yemen, Sanaa, and transported to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. He apparently suffered critical…
World Bank Takes Optimistic View towards Mideast Upheaval
Long Term Positive Prospects The World Bank released a report on Tuesday saying that despite the short-term downward movement of Middle Eastern and Northern African economies, in the long run the world can expect to see positive movement in that region. The report is the World Bank’s regional economic update for May 2011 for the…
Drones Miss Awlaki in First Missile Strike in Yemen in A Year
Just days after the US successful raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Pakistan resulting in his death, US drones attempted to kill the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Awlaki Born in USA: Turns to al Qaeda US officials stated that the missile strike was unsuccessful, and Awlaki is still alive. Awlaki is…
Gaddafi Succeeds in Fight for Sirte
Reversing gains made by rebels in the past several weeks after NATO forces gave air support to Libyan rebels; Gaddafi’s loyalist forces took Sirte, Gaddafi’s hometown, in their continuing advance east, blocking the way of the rebels’ westward push. Rebels were forced back to Bin Jawad, a town which they had taken on Monday, and…
South Yemen Not Happy With Unification
Discussions these days in the qat saloons of southern Yemen focus on the discontent people feel with what they see as the failed attempt at unification of what used to be two distinct countries, Yemen and South Yemen. Taking the lead from other protesters across the Middle East, dissenters in southern Yemen have taken to…
ICRC Coordinating Food Aid in Northern Yemen
The governor of the northern Yemen province of Sa’adah met with the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) this week to discuss the available options for increasing the amount of food aid to the area. Governor Taha Hajjer met on Tuesday with Klaus Spreyermann to explore the ways in which provisions…
Obama Intervenes to Keep Yemeni Journalist Jailed
Jailed Yemeni journalist Abdul-Elah Haidar Shaye was granted a pardon by President Ali Abdullah Saleh even before the recent anti-government demonstrations broke out in Yemen last week, but he had not yet been released. As part of concessions President Saleh made to the protestors was included the agreement to finally release Haidar Shaye. However this…
Stick and Carrot Should Be Tried in Middle East
As violence continues to escalate in the Middle East analysts in the United States are wondering what the best approach to achieving security in the region might be. In wake of the rocket attack of a convoy of British embassy personnel which took place in the Yemeni capital of San’a recently the United States is…
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Independent Middle East News
- Ankara Fears Increased Kurdish Resistance February 18, 2012by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh According to an intelligence report released Friday, Turkey’s military fears Kurdish resistance will increase in 2012, following months of the Turkish Arned Forces (TSK) brutally suppressing Kurdish rebels and their supporters. According to the report, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) announced it will start conducting raids from the a […]
- Kurds Mark 13 Years Since Öcalan’s Capture February 16, 2012by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh People throughout Turkish-occupied northern Kurdistan marked 13 years since the imprisonment of Abdullah Öcalan, founding leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The anniversary was observed Wednesday with protests and business closures. Some PKK sympathizers in the Kurdish city of Hakkari were also reported to have thrown […]
- Turkish Jets Pound Kurdish Region February 12, 2012by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh Turkish warplanes have bombed several targets in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq, Ankara’s military revealed Sunday.In the second cross-border airstrike in just over a week, the jets hit caves and other suspected rebel shelters in the Zap and Hakurk regions in an operation that began late Saturday, an army […]
- Turkey Kills 13 Kurds in Overnight Clashes February 9, 2012by Mahmoud Abu Ghosh Turkish forces killed 13 Kurdish rebels in occupied northern Kurdistan overnight, marking an escalation in violence at a time when winter weather generally limits clashes. Resistance fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked some 10 different Turkish military targets at roughly 2:30am in Hakkari province, Turkish sources […]
- Egypt Defies US Demands February 8, 2012by Naama Ben-Yaakov Cairo announced Wednesday that it would not be swayed by American threats to cut off the aid Egypt receives from the United States when investigating foreign-funded organizations promoting Western interests, a case that has prompted Washington to warn that US military support worth an annual $1.3 billion may be in jeopardy. The US wants [ […]
- Ankara Fears Increased Kurdish Resistance February 18, 2012