Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an unforgiving corner of Arabia. The Last Refuge charts the rise, fall, and resurrection of al-Qaeda in Yemen over the last thirty years, detailing how a [...]

On 23 February 2006, twenty-three men escaped from a political prison to a mosque in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen. Two years later, they were joined by a dozen men released from Guantanamo Bay. These are the core of the new al-Qaeda, which is regrouping in the far reaches of Yemen and eager to wage [...]