Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, is a Salafi-jihadist militant organization which seeks to overthrow the Yemeni and Saudi governments. The group is based and primarily active in Yemen, whil
AQAP guards outside of a building, 2012
AQAP fighters in Yemen, 2014
Yemeni AQAP militants with a flag
The coast of Mukalla
The Yemeni civil war is an ongoing multilateral civil war that began in late 2014 mainly between the Rashad al-Alimi-led Presidential Leadership Council and the Mahdi al-Mashat-led Supreme Political C
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
…the group returned to an insurgent campaign rather than holding territory. AQAP would again capitalize on political turmoil in the country when the Yemeni civil war broke out in 2014. AQAP would reach its territorial peak in 2015, with the group seizing much of southern Hadhramaut governorate, including its capital…
A pro-Saleh protest in Sanaa against the Saudi-led intervention, March 2016
Protest against the war in Yemen on 14 August 2020
Destroyed house in the south of Sanaa, 13 June 2015
Code Pink anti-war activists protest U.S. Senators supporting Saudi-U.S. arms deals, December 2017