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.
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 Iranian-backed group had defied a warning to stop targeting ships in the Red Sea - and tensions escalated earlier this month after a British warship, in an operation with US forces, shot down seven drones launched by Houthis torepel the largest drone and missile attack to ...
— 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.
“This will shake the confidence of Hezbollah’s Iran-backed allies across the Arab world, from the Houthis in Yemen to the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq, as well as Iran itself, sparking a tectonic shift in Iran’s network of influence in the Middle East,” she a...
The ongoing conflict in Yemen, which began in 2014 after the Houthis took over the capital, Sanaa, has led to one of the worst humanitarian crises globally. The Saudi-led military coalition intervened on March 26, 2015, with the objective of reinstating the government.■...
The girl’s mother urged president Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi and the governor of Dhamar to bring back her other two daughters who are in the custody of her ex-husband. “He is a killer. I demand he be severely tortured before executing him,” she said. ...
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As they grow more politically active, women are increasingly targeted by the Houthi rebels who rule northern Yemen. Hundreds of women have vanished into secret prisons where they are tortured and sometimes raped, former detainees and other activists say. The Houthis deny the claims, but six ...