A Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government entered the war in 2015 and the Houthis have since been fighting what has become a long-running but now largely stalemated civil war in Yemen. However, when theIsrael-Hamas warerupted in the Gaza Strip a year ago,...
— Hamas in Gaza; — powerful Hezbollah, the dominant force in Lebanon; — smaller militias in Iraq and Syria; — Houthis in the poor Arabian peninsula country of Yemen, who are sometimes seen as the loose cannons of the alliance.
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. Yet the history of the Hout...
So, when I interviewed one of the group's inner circle, the cousin of the Houthi leader, Mohammed al Houthi, in Yemen this week, he was all smiles. "The whole world is with the Houthis," he told me from his base in the capital, Sanaa. "They ...
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America’s adversaries are probing for weaknesses believing that the internal turmoil makes the country distracted and vulnerable. A good example is the Iran-backed Houthis rebels in Yemen which have fired on US naval destroyers in the Red Sea. Those disruptions and strikes in Canada, US and ...
The undeclared missile war between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and the United States Navy has made one thing irrefutably clear: the tens of billions of dollars the service has poured into protecting its warships has paid off. The U.S. is allied with most countries in the Red Sea r...
The Yemeni Houthis are an existential threat to Saudi Arabia? The 2022 presidential election was stolen? The 2016 presidential election was stolen? Nicolas Cage is one of Hollywood’s greatest actors? These are not necessarily empirical hills on which I would want to die, though I do have opi...
Oil held gains after the US and UK made a fresh round of strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. GlobalbenchmarkBrent was steady around $80 a barrel after rallying almost 2% on Monday. Fears of escalation are growing as the Houthis have vowed to continue attacking vessels until...
Middle East tensions are ratcheting up after the US launched another round of strikes on Yemen’s Houthis overnight. TheAmericanmilitary targeted 14 Houthi missiles just before midnight Yemeni time. Hours later, Pakistan launched missiles against militants in Iran. Oil prices edged higher on Thursday...