Yemen

The speed of Western retaliation over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised eyebrows among Yemenis who have endured a relentless bombing campaign and deadly air, land, and sea blockade for [...]

The UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) has declared the de-facto independence of southern Yemen, accusing the Saudi-backed Yemeni government, led by President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, [...]

This article was written in June 2018. Recently US marines have occupied the Yemeni territory, Socotra Island, ostensibly to “support UAE forces”. The same UAE forces responsible for at least 27 [...]

Following on from Yemen War Report – October 2, 2019: Houthis Deliver Devastating Blow To Saudi Arabia  the Saudi-led coalition has halted its airstrikes on Houthi-held areas in Yemen as a part [...]

The Houthi advance on the Yemeni-Saudi border became a second major blow to Saudi Arabia in September. After almost 5 years of the Saudi invasion of Yemen, the Kingdom found itself in a no win [...]

In Yemen, tensions between the government and separatists had simmered since the 2017 formation of the Southern Transitional Council, a body calling for southern Yemen’s secession from the north. [...]

VIDEO Push Back: The Trump administration is sending US troops to Saudi Arabia as it continues to threaten Iran. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell, says the US-Saudi [...]

VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT Antony Lowenstein speaks with Marc Steiner about the fog around the UAE & Saudis in Yemen, how it is connected to the chaos in Libya, the drone attack, and wider chaos [...]

Saudi Arabia and the alliance of other autocratic Arab States that have been bombing Yemen since 2015 push the line all the time that Yemenis are “too ignorant” to manage that sort of [...]

The drone strikes carried out by Yemen’s Houthis on Saudi oil facilities in Buqayq and Khurais is increasing tension throughout the Middle East and around the world, disrupting around half of [...]