Yemen Civil War

A crater is pictured at Saudi Arabia's Abqaiq oil processing plant on September 20, 2019. - Saudi ... Arabia said on September 17 its oil output will return to normal by the end of September, seeking to soothe rattled energy markets after attacks on two i… Read More

Early this week, Netanyahu made a trip to Uganda, another stop in his world tour, preceded by last week’s visits to Washington and Moscow. And the de rigueur rabbit was pulled out of the hat in the form of a meeting with the president of Sudan, Abdel Fattah a…

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the world’s testing ground for the effectiveness of security assistance provided by global and regional powers. That security assistance has contributed to the intensity and frequency of proxy wars—such as those under way or recently wound down in Libya, Yemen, Syria,…

Washington (CNN)The United States conducted a strike recently targeting Qassim al-Rimi, the leader of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the terror group's franchise based in Yemen that has repeatedly expressed interest in conducting attacks targeting the Uni…

In 2017, when Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud passed the reigns of power to his son, millennial Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the thirst was evident. The Wall Street Journals editorial board declared the political sands are shifting, while New Yor…

This piece originally appeared on Informed Comment.  The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called on other capitals than Washington, D.C., to ensure a dignified life for human beings…

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose activism we honor today, took stands far beyond Selma and Montgomery, and called on other capitals than Washington, D.C., to ensure a dignified life for human beings. Dr. King was an early…

Few people at the beginning of the last decade had any idea what a powerful political machine platforms like Facebook and Twitter would shape up to be – including, it often seems, Facebook’s own CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The 2010s were the decade that online acti…

The last decade showed how social media could topple governments and make social change — and it's only getting crazier from here (FB, TWTR, GOOG)

The U.S. and Iran have a complicated history dating back decades. From the U.S. involvement in the shahs 1953 coup of Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh, to the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, to the U.S. killing of one of Irans top generals in January 2020, th…