The Yemeni Civil War is a devastating conflict in Yemen that began in 2014 when the capital, Sanaa, already destabilized by the Arab Spring uprising that began in 2011, was overtaken by Houthi rebel forces.
Disruption in global shipping from Houthi attacksCommercial ships avoiding Houthi attacks on the Red Sea require nine additional days and thousands of additional miles to their route.(more) When Houthi rebels—a Zaydī Shiʿi movement in Yemen militantly opposed to Saudi influence and U.S. milita...
Part of the money that was planned to be invested in infrastructure have been directed to the education. Teachers are paid to make positive propaganda to the government. Things like prevention of AIDS are taught in school, too. Medicine:The other part of the money that was planned to go to...
Located on the northern coast of the Bab-el-Mandeb, Yemen has been embroiled in a complex civil war since 2015. The conflict involves various factions, including the internationally recognized government backed by a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels supported by Iran. The instability in Yemen...
and theHouthi movement, which disrupted global shipping by attacking ships in theRed Sea. At the end of the year Israel faced tremendous international pressure to ease its offensive, and in February a rift emerged between Israel and theUnited States, Israel’s most important source of internationa...
Hostages taken on October 7, 2023Portraits of some of the hostages taken during the October 7, 2023, attacks, displayed on a wall during a rally in Tel Aviv calling for their release.(more) More than 240 others were taken into the Gaza Strip as hostages. Many of them were taken from ...
A wave of attacks on Israelis in early 2022 led the IDF to conduct frequent raids in the West Bank, especially in the northern West Bank cities ofJenin,Nablus, andTulkarm, in an effort to root out militants. The confrontations between Palestinians and the IDF led to the deadliest year in...