WHO ARE THE HOUTHIS? Houthi rebels swept down from their northern stronghold in Yemen and seized the capital, Sanaa, in 2014, launching a grinding war. A Saudi-led coalition intervened in 2015 to try to restore Yemen’s exiled, internationally recognized government to power. Years...
The death of the group's founder, Hussein al Houthi, at the hands of the Yemeni military, sparked a civil war - the Houthi insurgency - in 2004. Who are the Houthis? The group, now led by his brother, Abdul-Malik al Houthi, also took part in the 2011 Yemeni revolutio...
HouthisMaribcivil warpeace initiativeUSUNOn March 26, 2021, the civil war in Yemen entered its seventh year. Despite the multiple attempts made by the United Nations and other regional and international parties to end this war and launch negotiations leading to a comprehensive political settlement...
The three armed factions we spoke to in the Iraqi capital are part of the multinational Axis of Resistance, an informal political and military coalition in the region led by Iran, which has gained massive momentumsince the 7 October Hamas attacks. It is the first time th...
in the Middle East. Despite the disadvantages in firepower and financial resources, the Houthis have managed to survive all of those conflicts and are arguably in their strongest position since the group was established three decades ago. Saudi Arabia in particular has been humiliated by the ...
The Iranian government has said that any retaliatory attack will also involve its proxy forces, which include Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen and militants in Iraq. Tensions between Israel and Iran’s proxies were already running high before the killing of Haniyeh, whic...
humans—rather, it’s programmed by data from online texts. But Muslim jokes do exist (here are some), so it’s not due to their absence on the Internet. Tentative hypothesis: the bot somehow knows that ALL jokes about Muslims could “potentially cause offense”. How it knows this is ...
delivered a chilling speech at the United Nations General Assembly. He warned –“There is no place in Iran that thelong armof Israel cannot reach. And that’s true of the entire Middle East. I have another message for this assembly and for the world outsi...
in Oman over the last week. A source close to the negotiations told CBS News they had been urged not to talk directly with the U.S. or Saudi delegations. Saudi Arabia, Iran's arch rival, has led the war against the Houthis in Yemen on behalf of the country's beleaguered government....
Its foes are no longer corrupt and incompetent Arab regimes, but rather an array of non-state actors – from Hezbollah to Hamas to Islamic Jihad to the Houthis to militias in Iraq and Syria – in addition to Iran itself. And because of US support for Is...