It’s exceptionally rare for Russia and the US to agree on just about anything at all nowadays, which makes it all the more remarkable that they’re on the exact same page in condemning the Houthi’s missile strike on Saudi Arabia. The War on Yemen has been going on for over […]
Editors note: The following is an interview Andrew Korybko conduced with Summer Ahmed, a US based spokeswoman for the Southern Transitional Council which is pressing for the restoration of South Yemen based on its pre-1990 borders. AK: Please briefly tell our audience about the origins of the Southern Transitional Council […]
2017 and 2018 have provided some surprising missed opportunities for peace in Yemen. First there was former President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s botched outreach to Riyadh and Abu Dhabi in an attempt to foment a Sana’a lead peace process. This ultimately led to Saleh’s assassination at the hands of his Houthi […]
Russia has vetoed a western backed UN Security Resolution seeking to condemn Iran over downright bizarre allegations that it has supplied Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) Movement with modern missile systems. Forgetting the fact that no one has presented any meaningful evidence regarding the claims, as Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said at […]
Hours ago, two car bombs exploded in Aden, near the headquarters of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council. Early reports indicate that there have been multiple civilian fatalities. Daesh has just issued a claim of responsibility through its propaganda networks. Beyond being ‘just another tragedy’ in a country that has had far […]
This month has seen the consolidation of power in the de-facto “South Yemen” capital of Aden, by the Southern Transitional Council (STC), a party which seeks to restore the statehood of South Yemen based on its pre-1990 borders. Street clashes in Aden by the STC aligned Southern Resistance Movement’s fighters, […]
Yesterday evening, the official Twitter account of Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, the leader of Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement (aka the Houthis), issued a call for a resumption of national dialogue in preparation for new Yemen wide elections. نحن مع العودة لطاولة الحواروتشكيل لجنة مصالحةوطنيه والاحتكام لصندوق الانتخابات لانتخاب رئيس وبرلمان يمثل كل […]