April 9th, 20220On Thursday, Saudi-backed Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi ceded power to a council whose members form the core of an anti-Houthi alliance as Saudi Arabia looks to exit a costly war that has strained Washington's ties with Gulf allies.
Why does this move matter?
The war is a multifaceted one and Saudi Arabia has struggled to...
December 14th, 20180RIMBO, Sweden — Yemen’s warring parties agreed on Thursday to cease fighting for the Houthi-held port city of Hodeidah and withdraw their troops, the first significant breakthrough for U.N.-led peace efforts in five years of conflict.
At the close of a week of talks in Sweden, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said a...
March 2nd, 20180WASHINGTON - Three senators will attempt to use congressional authority to get the United States to pull out of Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.
Republican Mike Lee of Utah, Democrat Christopher S. Murphy of Connecticut, and independent Bernie Sanders of Vermont will attempt to use a provision in the 1973 War Powers Act, Reuters...
February 6th, 20180DUBAI — Yemeni Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman was suspended from a party allied with President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi after she accused the Saudi-led coalition that backs him in the country’s civil war of acting as occupiers.
Karman won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her role in Arab Spring protests that ousted authoritarian...
December 15th, 20170SANAA — Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck a military police camp in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people and wounding 90 more, including some prisoners, an official and witnesses said.
The strike is part of an air campaign by the Western-backed coalition on the Iran-allied Houthis that has escalated...
