RABAT | Sun Nov 18, 2012 6:41pm EST (Reuters) – Moroccan police on Sunday broke up the first street protest against spending by King Mohammed, witnesses said. They said police with truncheons ended a rally outside parliament by a few dozen Moroccans, […]
By Andrew Hammond DOHA | Thu Nov 15, 2012 11:36pm IST (Reuters) – The Muslim Brotherhood has no intention of monopolising the revolt in Syria, the group’s deputy leader said, despite fears its close ties with Qatar and Turkey would help it […]
By Rania El Gamal and Andrew Hammond DOHA | Mon Nov 12, 2012 6:38pm EST (Reuters) – Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood finally swung behind a new opposition unity deal in Qatar, but some Syrians fear it will work in the new entity to […]
By Andrew Hammond ADEN | Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:05pm EDT (Reuters) – A U.S.-backed military onslaught may have driven Islamist militants from towns in Yemen they seized last year, but many have regrouped into “sleeper cells” threatening anew the areas they […]
By Andrew Hammond SANAA | Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:30am EDT (Reuters) – Yemen’s interim president has won U.S. praise for cooperating in a war on al Qaeda, but his recent public support for drone strikes that sometimes kill civilians could undermine […]
By Andrew Hammond JAAR, Yemen | Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:00pm IST (Reuters) – Yemenis who fled the fighting after al Qaeda militants occupied their home towns are now under pressure to go home, but many are hesitating for fear of the […]
By Andrew Hammond ADEN | Thu Oct 11, 2012 12:25pm EDT (Reuters) – Yemeni separatist leaders, exploiting a weakening of central authority and freer political atmosphere since a national uprising last year, have returned from exile to rally support for reviving the […]
By Andrew Hammond SANAA, Oct 3 (Reuters) – When riots erupted this month over an anti-Islam film made in California, Houthi rebels, long confined to remote corners of Yemen by then-President Ali Abdullah Saleh, covered the capital Sanaa in posters, banners and […]
By Andrew Hammond SANAA | Mon Oct 1, 2012 6:51am EDT (Reuters) – Seven months after he reluctantly handed over the presidency, Ali Abdullah Saleh’s continuing sway over Yemen is worrying Gulf neighbors and Western nations who fear that the political transition […]
By Andrew Hammond SANAA, Sept 30 | Sun Sep 30, 2012 2:21pm EDT (Reuters) – Nearly half of Yemenis go to bed hungry every night as political instability compounds a global food and fuel price surge, giving the Arabian Peninsula state the […]