by Anil Powers | Nov 4, 2015 | Monitor
Key Reads Tropical Cyclone Dumping Year’s Worth of Rain on War-Torn Yemen in One Day Jethro Mullen / CNN Ravaged by months of war, Yemen has now been battered by the first tropical storm on record to make landfall in the impoverished Arab country. Turkey...
by Theodore MacDonald | Apr 23, 2013 | Monitor
Canada Foils ‘Al-Qaeda Linked’ Terror Attack on Train BBC News Two foreign men living in Canada have been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a passenger train with support from al-Qaeda elements in Iran. Terror Takes a Front Seat Glenn Thrush and Jennifer...
by William Chodkowski | Sep 26, 2012 | Monitor
Yemen president offers conditional dialogue with al Qaeda Andrew Hammond/Reuters Yemen’s president offered dialogue to Islamist militants including al Qaeda on Wednesday, but said they must agree first to put down weapons and reject support from abroad....
by Nicholas Cunningham | Aug 15, 2012 | Monitor
Wind turbine factory in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Photo credit: DOE Former CIA Director John Deutch published an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal on August 14, offering his thoughts on the shale gas revolution. Here on ASP’s Flashpoint blog, we’ve been...