An interesting analysis at Carnegie focuses on security services reform in Palestine, Lebanon and Yemen. A good conclusion requires an apt intial assessment, such as: Use of military recruitment to co-opt tribesmen and of appointments to reward...

What a bloody day. Border guards kill qat smuggler HARADH, Nov. 04 (Saba) – A Yemeni qat smuggler has been shot dead by Saudi border guards while trying to smuggle qat leaves, which is banned in Saudi Arabia, across the Yemeni-Saudi border, Interior...

Update: Arab News: JAZAN: A Saudi border guard was killed and 11 others were injured when armed infiltrators from across the Yemeni border fired on Saudi border guards. The incident took place at Dukhan Mountain close to the Khald border post in...

The funny thing is Lawzi is insisting there is a free press in Yemen. The media is understood by some as a tool for use by political powers, not as a mechanism of transparency against them. RSF: Convictions and bans pile up against journalists...

Yemen has released hoards of jihaddists in order to use them as informers for the state, or so they say at every mass release or high profile terrorist who walks free. And there have been many. The Yemeni government insists always that they know...