List of Yemen articles
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469028774crop Saudi Arabia’s American-Backed War in Yemen Went Really Badly Today
Despite Saudi airstrikes, the Houthis continue their advance. Meanwhile, al Qaeda is gaining territory.
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469028392_4-9 The Arab NATO
The new 40,000-strong Arab League “response force” is all about countering Iran. Get ready for tense times and strange bedfellows in the Middle East.
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A picture taken with a mobile phone early on May 24, 2014 shows Al-Qaeda militants posing with Al-Qaeda flags in front of a museum in Seiyun, second Yemeni city of Hadramawt province, after launching a massive pre-dawn assault that killed at least 15 soldiers and police. The assault in Hadramawt, a jihadist stronghold that has seen large-scale attacks on the army in the past, came as troops pressed a month-old ground offensive against Al-Qaeda in Abyan and Shabwa provinces to the west. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Will al Qaeda Be the Great Winner of Yemen’s Collapse?
Big gains and great challenges await the world's most dangerous al Qaeda affiliate.
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Shiite Houthi crisis in Yemen The Middle East’s Franz Ferdinand Moment
Why the Islamic State's claimed attack in Yemen could spark an Arab World War.
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FL_FightForYemen1 New Documentary Goes Inside Yemen’s Houthi Rebel Movement
Journalist Safa Al Ahmad provides an intimate portrait of a misunderstood and hugely important rebel group.
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m-11322 Misunderstanding wars in Yemen, Vietnam, and Yemen once again
There’s an moment in the 2003 documentary The Fog of War in which former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara lays out what he got wrong in Vietnam. “We saw Vietnam as an element of the Cold War,” he says. “Not what they [the Vietnamese] saw it as: a civil war.” I thought of that the other day as I listened to Adam Baron, a visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, talking about the Saudi intervention in Yemen.
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yemen Egypt’s Vietnam
Lessons from the last time Cairo waded into war in Yemen.
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462413992_yemen1 Make No Mistake — the United States Is at War in Yemen
The White House just doesn’t want to admit it.
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467637600_rothkopf1cover Operation Charlie Foxtrot
The entire Middle East is at war right now, and the Obama administration's strategic incoherence is aiding and abetting the chaos.
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YEMEN-CONFLICT-HUTHI Playing Both Sides of the Fence
Sectarian war is spreading in the Middle East, and Washington finds itself fighting with Sunnis in one country and with Shiites in another.
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saudi1crop Saudi Arabia’s Big Gamble
With a new king and a young, untested defense minister, Riyadh has plunged headlong into war in Yemen. At stake is nothing less than the kingdom's position of leadership in the Arab world.
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HOUTHIS Yemen Strife Reminds Oil Markets That Mayhem Matters
Military action by Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states in Yemen spooked oil traders, a reminder that a world in flames can still rattle energy markets.
