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Yemeni policemen stand guard as workers rebuild the central prison’s outer wall on February 14, 2014 in the capital Sanaa. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)
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A car is burning at the site of a suicide car bombing at the defence ministry in the Yemeni capital Sana’a on December 5, 2013. (AFP)
Debate: Yemen does constitute a GCC security concern
Yemen has long been and will continue to be a security concern for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The international community, led by the GCC, intervened to prevent possible state collapse in 2011. GCC governments played a crucial role in negotiating the...Caption:
A Yemeni security officer stands guard during the first hearing on August 26, 2013 in the case of the June 2011 bombing of the Yemeni presidential palace outside the state security court in Sanaa. (AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS)
Debate: Yemen does not constitute a GCC security concern
Yemen has never been a concern to the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), and has never represented a threat to them. However, the presence of a very poor country which controls the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, and which has a dense population that shares...Caption:
Soldiers gesture along a road leading to the Defense Ministry compound as smoke rises after an attack, in Sana’a December 5, 2013 (REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi)
Yemeni Interior Ministry rejects Al-Qaeda apology
Sana’a and Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Interior Ministry in Yemen has said it has rejected Al-Qaeda’s apology for the December 5 attack on the Defense Ministry complex in the capital Sana’a, which killed 56 people. Interior Ministry Spokesman, Brig-Gen Mohamed...Caption:
Yemeni security forces stand guard outside the Saudi German Hospital where a Japanese diplomat is treated after he was stabbed in a morning attack on December 15, 2013, in the capital Sanaa (AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED HUWAIS)