The US has supported a Saudi-led military coalition that has inflicted profound and deadly damage on Yemen. A Senate vote could end what a human rights scholar says is US complicity in genocide.
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The Houthis belong to the Shiite branch of Islam. The Houthi insurgency began in the early 1990s, spurred in part by growing influence of different Sunni branches of Islam.
The Obama and Trump administrations have supported a military coalition that has inflicted profound and deadly damage on Yemen. A human rights scholar says the US is complicit in genocide.
Iron Dome rocket interceptors achieved international fame during Israel’s 2012 and 2014 Gaza conflicts. Research suggests the systems provided substantial protection in 2014, but not two years earlier.
Many Yemeni women are not victims of war or just escaping or hiding. In many and contrasting ways they are actively supporting it, and not only on humanitarian grounds.
Yemen now needs a new kind of politics where its people must be allowed to make their own future.
Qatar withdrawing its troops has reignited tensions between Eritrea and Djibouti which the UN and African Union are trying to mediate. This comes as Eritrea is also embroiled in the Yemen civil war.
The growing Arab military, political and religious influence is only the latest example of an external force taking hold in the Horn of Africa.
As one of the world’s messiest conflicts, the war in Yemen seems to defy any political resolution.
There’s a massive war going on at the tip of the Arabian peninsula – but you’d hardly know it.
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Associate Professor and Department Chair, Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations, American University School of International Service
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PhD Candidate at Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor of International Security, Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University
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Researcher, Department of War Studies, King's College London
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Associate Professor, School Of Politics & International Relations, University College Dublin
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Associate Professor, Operations Research, Brock University
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Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University
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Senior Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Research Assistant in Maritime Business and Administration, Ordu University
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Assistant Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain, University of Bradford
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Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East at RUSI; Associate Professor in Politics & International Relations; Deputy Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
