Micah Zenko writes that a military strike on Yemen in response to the attempted attack on flight 253 would be a bad short-term solution.

Washington must increase aid to Yemen to help deter forces like the al-Qaeda affiliate linked to a plot to destroy a U.S. airliner, says Christopher Boucek.

Three local power struggles--the Houthi revolt in the north, the southern secessionist movement, and the pervasive threat of al-Qaeda--put Yemen's central government on "the brink of collapse".

In this Carnegie Paper report, Christopher Boucek outlines the looming economic, political, and security challenges in Yemen and offers recommendations on how to tackle the forces limiting the central government's territorial control.

Lawrence Wright tells a story of how FBI agent Ali Soufan may have prevented the 9/11 attacks if the it wasn't for the lack of cooperation between the FBI and CIA.

This is the last of three articles that follow a U.S.-funded program to encourage democracy from its inception to its conclusion, and is based on a year of reporting in Washington and Yemen. It was done with the cooperation of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, which gave the Washington Post full access to the program without knowing how it, or any stories about it, would turn out.

This is the second of three articles that follow a U.S.-funded program to encourage democracy from its inception to its conclusion, and is based on a year of reporting in Washington and Yemen. It was done with the cooperation of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, which gave the Washington Post full access to the program without knowing how it, or any stories about it, would turn out.

This is the first of three articles that follow a U.S.-funded program to encourage democracy from its inception to its conclusion, and is based on a year of reporting in Washington and Yemen. It was done with the cooperation of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, which gave the Washington Post full access to the program without knowing how it, or any stories about it, would turn out.