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Yemen - Page 4

January 13, 2024
Defence/Diplomacy

Why Biden Ordered the Attack on the Houthis

Since mid-November the Houthis have been launching attacks against shipping in the Red Sea.  The US sent a number of AEGIS destroyers to help protect international shipping, performing the dual role of intercepting Houthi

Defence/Geopolitics

Return of the Somali Pirates: Armed Clans Revive a Forgotten Maritime Threat

A new wave of maritime hijackings in waters off Somalia and Yemen is reviving fears of a return to large-scale piracy in the Horn of Africa, a region that once symbolised one of the world’s most dangerous shipping corridors. Reporting

May 11, 2026

Watch Those Houthis – They Are Pretty Tough

Columns

The first time I went to remote Yemen, this wild, mountainous nation was just creeping into the 7th Century AD. That was 45 years ago.

The Houthi Attacks on Ships and Freedom of Navigation

Columns

Inter arma enim silent leges ~ Attributed to Cicero In English interpretation, the above phrase signifies that amid times of war, legal principles lose

Israeli Arrow Downs Houthi Ballistic Missile

November 1, 2023
Defence

The Israeli Arrow air defense system intercepted a heavy Houthi missile aimed at Israel’s Red Sea port city of Eilat. Israel has not said if the intercept was by Arrow 2 or Arrow

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Climate Change Is Intensifying Humanitarian Crisis in War-Affected Yemen

June 21, 2023
News/Yemen

Important progress has been made in ending violence in Yemen for the first time since 2015 when the Saudi Arabia-led coalition invaded the country. However, the eight years of war have created the “world’s

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Yemen’s Conflict in the Wake of the Beijing-Brokered Tehran-Riyadh Diplomacy: A Forecast

March 15, 2023
China/Iran

Iran and Saudi Arabia, after years of enmity, agreed last week to restore diplomatic ties after talks facilitated by China, a significant development widely welcomed worldwide. Experts have said that the Beijing-brokered

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