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Rebel conflict heightens humanitarian crisis in Yemen

MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- From his tent made of blankets, Ali al-Majeshri stared at the tarpaulin tents in the refugee camp across the road. Five days before, he and his family had arrived at this wretched patch in a failing nation, driven here by a civil war ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  UNICEF

Cleric says he was confidant to Hasan

SAN’A, Yemen - In his first interview with a journalist since the Fort Hood rampage, Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi said that he neither ordered nor pressured Major Nidal Malik Hasan to harm Americans, but that he considered himself a confidant ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, Boston Globe,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Nidal Malik Hasan,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Washington Post Company,  Al-Qaeda

Cleric: a confidant to Hasan

The cleric said he thought he played a role in transforming Hasan into a devout Muslim eight years ago, when Hasan listened to his lectures at the Dar al-Hijra mosque in Northern Virginia. Aulaqi said that Hasan "trusted him," and that the two ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, The Washington Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Al-Qaeda,  Washington Post Company

Africans hoping for refuge in Israel take perilous path

CAIRO - Sadiq Sahour slowly recounted a story he has carefully kept hidden from his daughter. It began in an unforgiving desert in Sudan, where he and his wife, Hadja, escaped militiamen who razed their ancestral village. It resumed in Egypt, where ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, Boston Globe,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Human Rights Watch

Yemen's fight with rebels a regional concern

MAZRAQ, YEMEN -- Along the jagged, oatmeal-colored mountains of northern Yemen, civil war has transformed the windswept landscape into a canvas of human misery, bolstering al-Qaeda's efforts to create a haven in the Middle East's poorest nation. It is a ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, The Washington Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda

Yemen denounces Iranian 'interference' in its internal affairs

SANAA, YEMEN -- The Yemeni government on Wednesday lashed out against what it described as Iranian "interference" in its affairs, escalating tensions in a civil conflict pitting Yemen's army against Shiite rebels that has drawn in Saudi Arabia ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, The Washington Post,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Manouchehr Mottaki

Civil War wounds are far from healed

For years, Galadi has sought to give his grandfather, a bullfighter and anarchist, a proper burial. But he is believed to be in the same grave as Spain's most acclaimed 20th century poet, Federico García Lorca, whose family has long opposed opening the ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, The Washington Post,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Francisco Franco,  Francisco Gonzalez

Africans seeking refuge in Israel face perils of Egyptian crossing

CAIRO -- Sadiq Sahour slowly recounted a story he has carefully kept hidden from his daughter. It began in an unforgiving desert in Sudan, where he and his wife, Hadja, escaped militiamen who razed their ancestral village. It resumed in Egypt , where ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, The Washington Post,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Hamas,  Human Rights Watch

At Saudi campus, expanded freedoms

THUWAL, Saudi Arabia - On this gleaming high-tech campus edged by the Red Sea, May Qurashi crossed a barrier the other day. She played a game on PlayStation with some male fellow students. Her best friend, Sarah al-Aqeel, is also reaching for the ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, Boston Globe,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: King Abdullah

Egyptian Pro-Reform Activists Say U.S. Commitment Is Waning

MAHALLAH AL-KOBRA, Egypt -- Four months after President Obama delivered an address from Cairo in which he voiced American commitment to human rights and the rule of law, concern is mounting among Egypt's pro-reform activists that the United States is ...

From SUDARSAN RAGHAVAN, The Washington Post,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Hosni Mubarak,  Hamas,  Hezbollah

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