He described ambitious plans to mobilize Yemeni tribes against the Houthis and their Iranian backers in Yemen, a war that has dragged on longer than the Saudis hoped. Whenever MbS is interviewed ...

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July 12, 2010: Hard times for Yemen. There is a fraying, five month old, ceasefire with rebel Shia tribes in the north. Then there are separatist groups in the south, and their increasingly violent ...

The Houthi rebels' actions in the Red Sea off Yemen have had a global impact, cutting transit through one of the world’s most ...

The government, though, is left frustrated with a phenomenon it can do little about, fearful of the tribes’ power and unable or unwilling to address their longstanding grievances. In Yemen, a poor ...

Iran is sending more weapons to the Houthis following the collapse of its other proxy groups across the Middle East, a ...

Bani Hashish tribes mobilize to declare readiness to confront any Zionist-American escalation against Yemen ...

Syria’s ousting of the Assad regime increases the opportunities for Houthi forces in Yemen to take advantage of regional ...

Abductions are also a method of numerous tribes pressuring the country’s weak government into funding roads and other infrastructural projects, according to an October report in the Yemen Times.

July 29, 2024: Off the Yemen Red Sea Coast, the Yemen Houthi rebel group continues to attack passing ships headed north to the Suez Canal. Using various weapons supplied by Iran, the Houthis have ...

They quickly agreed to mobilize their tribes, and to seal the agreement they ... Foreign Minister Hassan Macky also left Yemen, showing up nearly a week early for an Arab foreign ministers ...

Nihm tribes mobilize to declare readiness to confront any Zionist-American escalation against Yemen ...