Few things are more damaging and futile than a war without clear goals or clear enemies. This is one reason why the war in Yemen…
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Barack Obama’s final State of the Union marked the beginning of the end of his time in the White House and stands as an epitaph…
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…
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…
