This past Tuesday, President Barack Obama delivered his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Though he tried to sound optimistic,…
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* Government opens up new front on bank as conflict stalls * Bank guarantees food imports for country nearing famine * New rival bank in…
RIYADH: Six months after Saudi Arabia said its war in Yemen was winding down, air strikes are again pounding rebels and rockets flying across the…
The whitewashed dome of a Sufi shrine in the Yemeni city of Taiz gleamed for centuries until a band of hardline Sunni Islamist gunmen blew…
Peace talks to end Yemen’s war haven’t officially failed, but they’re not going terribly well either. After months of stagnation in UN-sponsored indirect negotiations in…
By: Farea Al-Muslimi and Adam Baron Executive Summary The current armed conflict in Yemen began, essentially, as a domestic struggle for power between political and…
n 2011, tribesmen and fighters left their guns at home to join peaceful protests against the then president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. Today, Yemen’s writers, poets…
Yemen’s warring sides agreed to try a ceasefire in April. It’s holding. They’re negotiating. And while no one describes Yemen today as peaceful, an influential American diplomat looks…
The al-Qaeda franchise that tried three times to stage attacks on US soil admitted that it has retreated from a key port city in southern…
