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The May 6 cease-fire between the United States and the Houthi militia in Yemen has had a consolidating effect on the balance ...

In one night, three bombs weighing 30,000 pounds each may have done what decades of diplomacy, sanctions, and conflict could ...

My first question in the aftermath of Sunday morning’s strike on Iran is: Does President Donald Trump understand whose side ...

The Houthis are mindful of maintaining their alliance with Iran while avoiding military overextension that threatens their ...

Born in 2009 from the merger of al-Qaeda’s Yemeni and Saudi factions, AQAP is completely distinct from Yemen’s Houthi rebel group, which controls most of the country and agreed to a ceasefire with the ...

Saudi Arabia has been deeply sceptical of the US bombing campaign against the Houthis since it began under the Biden administration in 2024. Yemen descended into civil war in 2014 when the Iran ...

Saudi soldiers stand guard behind a sandbag barricade at the border with Yemen in Jazan, Saudi Arabia, on April 20, 2015. (Hasan Jamali/AP) By Missy Ryan, Sarah Dadouch, John Hudson.

The smugglers asked us for 500 Saudi riyals [$133] but I don’t have contacts back home in Ethiopia or in Saudi Arabia or Yemen [to help me pay]. So, they [the smugglers] beat me again.

Saudi Arabia’s efforts to set up a long-term ceasefire between warring Yemeni factions are influencing warmer ties between Washington and Riyadh, which nosedived after President Biden promised ...

Saudi Arabia exits war in Yemen After months of labored negotiations, a peace deal between Riyadh and the Houthi rebels, who have been in conflict since 2015, is expected to be announced soon. By ...