When an airstrike hit near the Iranian embassy in Sanaa on Friday, the incident underscored a harsh political reality: Saudi Arabia and Iran are locked…
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The recent tit-for-tat clashes across the Middle East have made the first days of 2016 seem a lot like 1979. That was the year Ayatollah…
Over the past two decades, the United States has approached the Middle East through its own conceptual frameworks: dictatorships vs. democracy, secularism vs. religion, order…
Why is war a more common occurrence in some parts of Yemen than in others? Why do cities like Aden recover quickly from wars? And…
For cash-starved Yemen, accession to the GCC has been a highly prioritized goal. But the GCC’s members have been reluctant to allow Yemen in. Every…
On April 21, Saudi Arabia officially ended a military intervention in Yemen dubbed “Operation Decisive Storm.” Reacting to a rapid expansion of rebel Houthi militias…
With the outbreak of the most recent round of conflict after the 2011 uprisings, sectarian discourse in Yemen has grown increasingly heated. In a recent…
Human Rights Activist Farea Al-Muslimi Discusses the Wars Tearing Apart the Middle East State, in a Talk With Students at Columbia Law School New York,…
Don’t worry, there are no spoilers in this article (unless you haven’t seen “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope”). Terrorism is an extremely complicated…
Militants affiliating themselves with the terrorist group ISIS are taking advantage of a power vacuum in Yemen to establish an increasingly strong foothold there as…
