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April 20, 2015: People queue to fill containers with water amid an acute shortage of clean drinking water in Sana’a. Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters

Bloody Struggle among Comrades in Aden

by Mounir al-Manawri | Feb 1, 2017 | Middle East

Washington- CIA archive declassified documents on People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, previously known as South Yemen in the seventies and eighties of the past century. Any researcher specialized in Yemeni affairs will come to realize that this region was...

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Donald Trump reinstating the Global Gag Rule. Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

Trump Orders Strict Immigration Screening

by Mounir al-Manawri | Jan 29, 2017 | World

Washington – U.S. President Donald Trump chose the Pentagon to sign his executive order preventing immigrants from entering the U.S. soil for a period of time. As soon as the order was put into action on Friday night, it was applied in airports all over the world. The...

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Former Sudanese Prime Minister and head of the opposition Umma Party Sadeq al-Mahdi addresses residents displaced by the Merowe dam as they stage a sit-down protest against what they describe as injustice and oppression, inside the Umma Party Headquarters in Omdurman December 24, 2011. REUTERS/ Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

CIA: Sadeq al-Mahdi Policies Detached Sudan from the West

by Mounir al-Manawri | Jan 28, 2017 | Middle East

Washington- After ousting former Sudanese President Jaafar Nimeiri in April 1985, there was a 14-month period during which a military council was in charge of the country before handing over the authority to the government of Sadeq al-Mahdi. Two years later the CIA...

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In this Dec. 24, 1998, file photo, Muslim militant and Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden speaks to a selected group of reporters in the mountains of Helmand province in Afghanistan. (Rahimullah Yousafzai/AP)

CIA: Bin Laden Opposes Ousting Ali Abdullah Saleh

by Mounir al-Manawri | Jan 25, 2017 | World

Washington – An ISIS official sent al-Qaeda Leader Osama bin Laden a letter inciting him to take action as it was the perfect time for the organization to lay hand over Sana’a. Bin Laden perceived that establishing an Islamic state in Yemen is now supported by...

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The CIA sign is seen onstage before the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama to speak following a meeting with his National Security Council at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia April 13, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

CIA Expects Downfall of Syria after Hafez al-Assad

by Mounir al-Manawri | Jan 24, 2017 | World

Washington- CIA interest in the future of Syria began long time ago – the agency analysts expected stability to collapse once the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad is gone, which turned out to be true. Several reports and analyses were made on Syria, according to...