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
Attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unraveled a key global trade route, forcing vessels into longer and more costly journeys around Africa.
Yemen’s Houthis use arms taken from Yemeni government forces stockpiles, said Mohammad Basha, a U.S.-based Yemen analyst who specializes in Houthi military affairs. “When the Houthis seized control of Sanaa in 2014, they got thousands of missiles and rockets,” he said, including Soviet-e...
As a response to the heightened number of attacks by Yemen’s Houthis in the Red Sea, numerous shipping companies are rerouting their ships to the Cape of Good Hope on Africa’s southern tip. The trip adds around 3,000 nautical miles and days (if not, weeks) to the sailing times of ...
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The current policy of Italy and many other EU countries including Germany of letting asylum seekers hang out freely in their cities and travel freely wherever they want and do whatever they want even if it includes hanging out in the cities in the middle of the night is an irresponsible ...
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Yemen has perhaps received less attention from the West than Syria because its people struggle to flee – many Yemenis are too poor to pay the people smugglers who can get them out, and they do not have the proximity to Europe that the Syrians have. ...
Riyadh has long played a part in stabilizing the region, a role that is needed as much as ever. Iraq is battling ISIS militants, who already control much of the country and are threatening to take the rest. The Sunni-led government in neighboring Yemen is out, with uncertainty of what co...