Yemen Briefing: Who Are the Houthis, and What Do They Want?On Friday, the Shiite Houthi movement declared control overYemen, weeks after it had seized the...Murphy, Dan
The attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have rerouted trade that normally flows through the corridor.
The U.S. and U.K. missile launch on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen was the culmination of weeks of warnings for the group to cease their attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea.
Many Yemenis loathe the Houthis, who have been accused of myriad abuses, but the cause of the Palestinians also crosses factional divides in the country. Iryani said that even members of Yemeni forces fighting the Houthis had supported the attacks against Israel. “Everyone [in Yemen] was ch...
On Monday night, theUS and UK carried out joint attacks on Houthi military targets in Yemen for a second time. The strikes targeted a Houthi underground storage site and locations associated with the Houthis' missile and air surveillance capabilities, a joint statement from the UK...
Declaring their war against the Houthis of Yemen last week, Saudi Arabia has presented the conflict as a sort of noble intervention, aiming to displace an Iranian proxy from power in favor of the internationally accepted, if not legitimately elected, President Hadi. ...
Israeli official said, whereby Tehran helped establish a panoply of allied militias and terror groups around Israel equipped with vast rocket and missile arsenals, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen, or various Shiite proxies in Syria and...
The rebels, armed by Iran, seized most of Yemen’s north and its capital, Sanaa, a decade ago, pushing the country's internationally recognized government into exile. A Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government entered the war in 2015 and the Houthis have si...
While the time and scope of Iran’s response remain unclear – whether it will act alone or in co-ordination with regional militias such as Hizbullah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen – the disconnect between the escalating rhetoric and the nonchalance about preparing the public...
Iran's proxy groups in the Middle East There are approximately 40 militant groups backed by Iran in the region, Baraa Shiban, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a British defense and security think-tank, told CBS News. That includes the Houthis in Yemen and Hezbollah...