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The recent nuclear agreement with Iran will likely have far-reaching effects on conflicts across the Middle East, particularly the war in Yemen. On July…
As Yemen’s civil war continues, extremist groups are thriving in the chaos. In mid-June, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) announced the assassination of…
There has been no official Muslim Brotherhood entity in Yemen, despite the establishment of a Brotherhood branch in the country five decades ago; however, it…
This month, Yemen’s exiled president, Abdrabu Mansur Hadi, received a letter indicating that his choice for ambassador to the United States, Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak,…
As violence continues in Yemen, old regional and geographical fault lines are opening up again, undermining Yemen’s unity without offering any realistic alternative to the…
Since late March, a Saudi Arabia-led military coalition has been bombing Yemen extensively in an attempt to push back the Houthis, an insurgent Shia group,…
Farea al-Muslimi is a Yemeni activist turned journalist and now a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center. In 2013, Foreign Policy named him…
On April 21, the foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) issued an official position on the war in Yemen in a statement blaming the…
Two military aircraft took off on March 25 from Sanaa’s al-Daylami air base, which is under Houthi control, to launch an attack on the Yemeni president’s…
