Yemen: Assessing the Threat
One of the first things you notice wandering around anywhere in Yemen is the kids. They are everywhere.
On May 3, as the United Nations marked World Press Freedom day, Reporters Without Borders released a list of the world’s worst “predators of press freedom.”
Yemen is the most gorgeous place you'll probably never visit.
After a 13-year-old girl's death, the conservative Islamists are retrenching -- with some bizarre, yet somehow effective, arguments.
A failed suicide attack on the British ambassador's convoy Monday morning shattered windows, terrified passersby and left debris and broken glass scattered on the sidewalks of the capital.
So there I was, lying on my back in a bikini on a deserted white-sand beach in Yemen, squinting into the shimmering turquoise sea to the west, wondering if I could make out Somalia from here.
Last week, it was reported that the CIA may attempt to capture or kill Anwar Al-Awlaki, the Yemen-based American cleric with ties to al-Qaeda.
Some say that's bad news.
The southern parts of Yemen were part of the independent, pro-Soviet nation of South Yemen until 1994.
SANAA, Yemen — On the streets of Sanaa, an angry crowd gathers around a gas delivery truck.
Sharif Mobley, a 26-year-old New Jersey man suspected of being an al-Qaida member, reportedly shot his way out of a Yemeni hospital Sunday and into American headlines.
Perhaps it was the spandex shorts.
It's a little surreal being in Yemen on International Women's Day. This place is not exactly a feminist's paradise.
Sheikh Abdu Alrib al-Naqib, a gray-haired separatist leader from Yemen's rural south, sat on his couch in this ramshackle port city, waving two American flags and humming an approximate version of
In the rural villages around southern Yemen, the signs that a separatist movement is growing are unmistakable.
I recently traveled with the French Red Cross to a rural region of Yemen to see the water distribution projects they are helping to build there (see the audio slide show above.)
SANA'A, Yemen — Mohammad Said Ali spends the money he makes repairing electronics during the day on his family's dinner at night.
President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who once described ruling Yemen as dancing on the heads of snakes, has stayed in power for three decades through a clever mix of money, tribal ploys and government corru
Reporting from Cairo and Sana'a, Yemen
The terrorist who's dead is still alive.
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Paul Stephens is a freelance reporter, photographer and video-journalist. His slideshows and photographs have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Global Post, The Christian Science...
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Haley Sweetland Edwards is a former staff reporter for the Seattle Times. Her freelance reporting has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times online, Global...