Yemen

NEWSBY POLITICS TODAY Yemen is on boil after the assassination of the ousted leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, along with many supporters, by Houthi rebels near estranged nation’s capital, Sana, on Monday.  Yemen is on boil after the assassination of the ousted leader Ali Abdullah Saleh, along with many supporters, by Houthi rebels near estranged nation’s capital, Sana, on Monday. The assassination is expected to trigger country-wide escalation in violence, with millions of Saleh’s supporters expected to vie for revenge. Houthis patrol around after clashes between Houthis and Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's supporters in Sanaa, Yemen on December 5, 2017. Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed on Monday by Houthi militiamen. Anadolu Agency Ye...

FINANCEBY VEYSEL KURT The assassination of Ali Abdullah Saleh has driven the Saudi-Iran proxy war on to a different level, and there is no doubt that the Riyadh administration will intensify military operations in Yemen.  The proxy wars that began in the Middle East have had dramatic impacts on many countries. With the involvement of global actors such as the United States and Russia, the ongoing struggle for power in the region paved the way for chaos. As these wars are fought in a third country through proxies, very unlike conventional wars, conflicts inevitably transform into a civil war. In this respect, conflicts in the Middle East share similarities – the situation of Iraq following the 2003 invasion and the status of Syria, Yemen and Libya after the 2011 riots are al...

INTERVIEWBY NIHAN DURAN A Houthi supporter holds a weapon as he attends a rally against the United States over its decision to designate the Houthi rebels movement as a foreign terrorist organization. Photo by Hani Al-Ansi, Picture Alliance via Getty Images Yemen is witnessing one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century with a civil war that has been going on for the past seven years. Alongside multiple local and regional actors at play, there are new diplomatic initiatives such as the U.S. special envoy introduced by the Biden administration, whose efficacy in bringing the conflicts to an end is yet to be proven. Nihan Duran of Politics Today interviewed Maysaa Shuja al-Deen, a Yemeni researcher and non-resident fellow at the Sana’a Center for S...