The race to Mukalla: The war to eliminate al-Qaeda

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In 2015-2016, the war raged in the Middle East against terrorist groups seeking to establish new states under their control, most notably the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). But this book is not about the parts of the war known to the Western public—namely, the destruction of Syrian and Iraqi cities like Mosul and Raqqa—but rather, it recounts for the first time, through participants in the operation, documented details of the parallel, largely unknown effort undertaken by the Gulf Arab states in cooperation with Yemeni forces to prevent extremists from seizing the “cradle of the Arabs,” the oil-rich Marib, and to expel terrorists from the magnificent, resource-rich coastal city of Mukalla, known as the “Pearl of the Arabian Sea.”