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This commentary discusses the operational strategies and destabilizing presence of al-Qaeda in Yemen. The authors comment on changes in the organization’s strategy, emphasizing its efforts to gain popular support and its responses to the Yemeni army’s advances - alternating between classical anti-regime terrorism, guerrilla tactics and revolt. They also highlight the fact that the Yemeni extension of al-Qaeda is the most active and most dangerous one of its affiliates and argue that even though the US and Yemeni forces have ousted the organization from most of the areas it had seized, this does not mean the battle is over.