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A suspected al-Qaeda militant waiting at the state security court of appeals in Sanaa in March, 2013. Many young men in Yemen get swept up in security crackdowns and become radicalized in jail.

Sitting down to tea in Yemen with the mother of al-Qaeda militants

Conflict & Justice

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula operates out of Yemen. And that’s where BBC reporter Shaimaa Khalil found a mother whose three sons had joined al-Qaeda and now has a lonely life without her sons or a community.