Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (Arabic: تنظيم القاعدة في جزيرة العرب, romanized: Tanẓīm al-Qā‘idah fī Jazīrat al-‘Arab, lit. 'Organization of the Base 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, seeking to establish an Islamic emirate throughout the Arabian Peninsula. AQAP is widely considered to be the most radical branch of al-Qaeda and is viewed by al-Qaeda's central command as its most loyal and important regional franchise. During the 2000s, AQAP of Saudi Arabia carried out several mass-casualty attacks against civilian populations in Saudi Arabia. After the failure of its bombing campaign and the dismantling of al-Qaeda cells in Saudi Arabia, several AQ operatives fled to Yemen in the late 2000s and established AQAP. The group took advantage of the 2011 Yemeni revolution to seize and establish several emirates in southern Yemen, including...

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