Yemen

Campaigners from Amnesty International carrying a batch of five giant dummy missiles to Downing Street in London, to highlight the UK governmentâs refusal to halt exports of UK-manufactured arms to Saudi Arabia, despite the clear risk that they could be used to commit war crimes in Yemen.

Order from Chaos

It’s time to stop US arms sales to Saudi Arabia

Thursday, February 4, 2021

The al-Shaab mosque, previously named after the slain former Yemeni President, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is pictured in Sanaa, Yemen March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Order from Chaos

A pragmatic view on Yemen’s Houthis

Monday, January 11, 2021

Honor guards carry coffins of Houthi fighters killed in recent fighting against forces of the internationally-recognized government, during a funeral in Sanaa, Yemen November 25, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Yemen

How labeling Yemen’s Houthis as terrorists would harm civilians

Gregory D. Johnsen

Monday, November 30, 2020

Houthi fighters man a machine gun mounted on a military truck as they parade during a gathering of Houthi loyalists on the outskirts of Sanaa, Yemen July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Order from Chaos

The mistake of designating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization

Gregory D. Johnsen

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Reports

UN envoy Martin Griffiths leaves after a news conference on Yemen talks at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland September 8, 2018. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Middle East & North Africa

A renewed call for indigenous-led conflict resolution in the Arab states

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

People climb flag poles flying Yemen's national flag during a ceremony marking Yemen's Reunification Day, in Sanaa, May 22 ,2016. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi - S1BETFMQVRAB

Yemen

Reclaiming Yemen: The role of the Yemeni professional diaspora

Noha Aboueldahab

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Saudi Deputy Crown Prince and Defence Minister Mohammed bin Salman during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Pavel Golovkin/Pool - RC19885B9FF0

Middle East & North Africa

The new geopolitics of the Middle East: America’s role in a changing region

Jeffrey Feltman, Samantha Gross, Martin Indyk, Kemal Kirişci, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, Natan Sachs, Amanda Sloat, Angela Stent, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Bruce Jones

January 2019

Smoke rising from clashes is seen through a military vehicle during a battle with Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, March 6, 2017.

Middle East & North Africa

The Middle East 2017

Kenneth M Pollack

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

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Report

The Middle East in transition

Kenneth M Pollack, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and General Lloyd J. Austin, III

Friday, August 14, 2015

Blog Posts

A girl walks near her house destroyed in an air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Faj Attan village, Sanaa, Yemen December 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed al-Sayaghi

Future Development

Yemen’s children: A crisis within a crisis

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Children look at wreckage of a vehicle oil and tires store hit by Saudi-led air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen July 2, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Order from Chaos

Ending the Yemen war is both a strategic and humanitarian imperative

John R. Allen and Bruce Riedel

Monday, November 16, 2020

Security men wearing protective masks stand on a street during a 24-hour curfew amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Order from Chaos

Yemen’s disaster becomes “cataclysmic”

Monday, July 6, 2020

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Events

Webinar: COVID-19: Implications for peace and security in the Middle East

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The changing geopolitics of the Red Sea: Gulf rivalries and global competition

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AST

What is happening in Yemen?

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM AST

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sit down to a working lunch with their delegations at the White House in Washington.

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Why the Senate went against Trump on Yemen

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) arrives to talk to the media following the Republicans weekly policy luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., December 12, 2017.

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How a new resolution will affect U.S. troops in Yemen

Molly E. Reynolds and Scott R. Anderson

Friday, March 9, 2018

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Jihadist terrorism, Islamic State, and the war in Yemen

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Friday, August 7, 2015

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More on Yemen

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during family photo session with other leaders and attendees at the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Saudi Arabia’s current state of affairs

Friday, September 11, 2020

On June 23, 2020, Bruce Riedel participated in a panel discussion on the newly published book, “Global, Regional, and Local Dynamics in the Yemen Crisis,” for which he contributed a chapter.

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Soldiers from the Saudi-led coalition secure a street pavement in Yemen's southern port city of Aden September 27, 2015. As Gulf-backed forces assemble in Marib province east of Sanaa ahead of a widely expected thrust towards the Houthi-held capital, the fate of Aden and its hinterland may offer a glimpse at whether some form of central government can be resurrected. To match Insight YEMEN-SECURITY/ADEN REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Governments are busy tackling COVID-19. So why are so many still doing arms deals?

Noha Aboueldahab

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Security men wearing protective masks stand on a street during a 24-hour curfew amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Sanaa, Yemen May 6, 2020. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/File Photo

Yemen and COVID-19: The pandemic exacts its devastating toll

Monday, June 15, 2020

TABUK, SAUDI ARABIA- Police and military carry out health checks on drivers as a preventive measure against the coronavirus in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia on April 14, 2020. King Salman of Saudi Arabia extended the curfew throughout the country until new notice due to the spread of the new Covid-19 coronavirus, as reported on Sunday (12) by the Interior Ministry. Saudi Arabia placed its capital Riyadh and other major cities under a 24-hour curfew, blocking much of the population from stopping the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus.

As a global economic crisis wreaks havoc on Saudi Arabia, the kingdom should reduce military spending

Wednesday, May 27, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Southern Yemeni separatist security members patrol a street during a campaign to seize unlicensed motorcycles in Aden, Yemen December 10, 2019. REUTERS/Fawaz Salman/File Photo

Following the separatist takeover of Yemen’s Aden, no end is in sight

Tuesday, April 28, 2020