The agent is of Arabic origin but holds a British passport, according to Mustafa Alani, director of security studies at the Gulf Research Center. Alani was briefed on the operation by Saudi counterterrorism officials. The agent, whom another ...

Some of those refugees are here, in Idaho. It’s a sunny, spring afternoon, but the light is dim inside Qusay Alani’s east Boise apartment.  He settles into an armchair to tell the story of his family’s long journey from Iraq to the U.S ...

The account is based in part on a detailed briefing on al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula that Saudi counter-terrorism officials provided late last year to Mustafa Alani, the director of security and defense studies at the Gulf Research Center.

The first sign of trouble arose about 9:30 a.m. during the second period, when reading teacher Jodi Rosoff, complained of feeling itchy, said Alani Skyers, 15, a freshman who was in the class and later treated and released from the hospital.

London (CNN) - The man who foiled a Yemen-based al-Qaeda "underwear bomb" plot was a British man of Arabic origin, according to Mustafa Alani, director of security studies at the Gulf Research Center. The agent had Saudi roots, lived for a long time in the ...

Mustafa Alani, a military analyst It did not take long for Saudi Arabia to react. In March, it led 1,500 Gulf troops into Bahrain to "help secure government installations". It was the first time the soldiers from the GCC nations had intervened ...

Alani Skyers, 15, was in a first-period reading class when her teacher, Ms. Rosoff, said she felt "itchy." Ten minutes later, several of Alani's classmates started feeling the same. Rosoff called security and a second teacher in the school ...

"Al-Qa'ida is under huge pressure and losing ground in the south," said Mustafa Alani, a regional security analyst with the Gulf Research Centre. "They've taken a big hit and lost hundreds of their fighters and it was expected that they would carry out ...

"All the sides are moving with extreme caution," said Mustafa Alani, a regional affairs analyst at the Gulf Research Center based in Geneva. "It seems no one wants to give too much or say too much at this stage. But also no one wants to be ...