Later in the day, the Houthis said the strikes killed five of their forces and wounded six. Here’s a look at the Houthis and their increasing attacks, and why the U.S. believes it is more acceptable to bomb some Iranian-linked targets than others. WHO ARE THE HOUTHIS? H...
Who are the Houthis? The Houthis - officially known as "Supporters of God" or "Ansar Allah" in Arabic - are a group of Shia Islamists based in western Yemen. Image:Members of Houthi military forces in September 2022. Pic: Houthi Military Media Formed in the 1990s, the gr...
On 26 March 2015, the Saudi intervention in Yemen began following the ouster of the pro-Saudi president of Yemen, Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. The Houthi Shia Muslim force ousted Hadi due to opposition to many of the conditions in Yemen. In addition to overthrowing Hadi, the Houthis took ...
"I think the first thing Hamas wanted to do was remind the Israelis that they are there, and that they are a force to be reckoned with — a security force and a political force to be reckoned with," said Weiner, of Stanford University. Cook, at the Council on Foreign Relations, told ...
"The Houthis will not accept disarmament and that is one of the most controversial points standing as a roadblock to any peace deal," Al-Jabr added. Fuad Alsalahi, a political sociology professor at Sanaa University, said a key reason the peace talks are unproductive is that all sides don...
The government does not control the intelligence communities. This reality is the core of the great awakening that reconciles every facet… The conflict in Ukraine exists because western intelligence services are controlling it. The reality is this “war” is not the Russian government -vs- the ...
Accordingly, the Houthis forces now in control of substantial parts of the country are not some kind of advanced guard sent in by Tehran. They are indigenous partisans who share a confessional tie with Iran, but who have actually been armed, if inadvertently, by Washington. ...
Saudi officials blasted his remarks as "offensive" and biased toward the Houthis. Since 2015, a Saudi-led coalition has been fighting the Houthis, who a year earlier took control of the capital, Sanaa, and northern parts of Yemen.
I saw kids who were affected by this war, who had been injured by it, who had been traumatized by it ... I can list hospital after hospital. And so that's really what makes me want to go back, is realizing that these people in the Gaza Strip are under a tremendous amount of ...
Or at least so many of us thought. The reason to question this assumption, and why we can be sure the Chinese are gleefully going to double down on their campaign against us, is because of the stories leaking out of Ottawa to the effect that officials at the very highest level of gov...