What’s behind the Houthis’ repeated attacks in south Yemen?
The truce seems far in the rearview as the primary focus of the rebels’ ire today appears to be unpaid public salaries.
The truce seems far in the rearview as the primary focus of the rebels’ ire today appears to be unpaid public salaries.
Houthi rebels are emerging ‘winners’ — flexing their power and leverage — while the Saudis remain mired in a conflict they can’t get out of.
Recent Houthi celebrations are a bit tone deaf — the people here need food and salaries — and the ceasefire is expiring in just over a week.
In a new book, Helen Lackner argues that this perception has led to skewed aid along military lines —not the kind the country really needs.
The path to a long-standing peace runs through a complete end to foreign military involvement.
Both sides have up held parts of the bargain but the reprieve in violence is fragile. Washington cannot ignore its own role moving forward.
With a War Powers Resolution looming in Congress to end the US role, the Saudi-led coalition may be seeing the writing on the wall.
It’s been seven years, but the Biden administration seems less likely than ever to follow through with its pledge to help end the war.
Washington is desperate for more OPEC oil production and our ‘friends’ know it. Some might call this extortion.
Democrats have been reluctant to challenge Biden on this issue but the situation is getting worse and time is running out.
For a president who pledged to start reducing the U.S. footprint in the Middle East, he sure is doing his best to stay hooked.
One year after promising to help end the war, Biden seems to be out of fresh ideas and going back to old playbooks.
If he thinks supporting the Kingdom’s efforts to take territory will help achieve a ceasefire, he’s likely in for a surprise.
Sens. Sanders and Markey and Rep. Khanna want to cut off all aid to Saudi Arabia. But will their efforts survive NDAA vote?
Nine months into the Biden administration and its Yemen peace initiative, the momentum toward peace seems to have stalled.
But Saudi Arabia and its helpmates can help speed up the inevitable and finally end this war.
This means even those who support them, including the US, are responsible for war crimes.
Far from withdrawing from the war in Yemen, the Emirates is pursuing a hard-line and establishing itself as a military power for the long haul.
Members of Congress are pressing President Biden to put the squeeze on Riyadh, and to use weapons sales as leverage.
We cannot accept at face value that the US and Saudi Arabia are committed to peace when their actions demonstrate the opposite.
The Saudi “Operation Decisive Storm” was anything but, and now the only way they can end this is through diplomacy.