Tag: Yemen

These costly U.S. attacks failed to achieve their goals, but were conducted in order to inflict a blow against Yemen, for daring to challenge the Israelis.

America is still driving global policy.

The Houthis won’t let their Gulf neighbors’ cooperation with Washington go unanswered.

The deaths of three U.S. soldiers in Jordan this weekend will prompt retaliation. But what then?

The White House decision to relist the rebels as a specially designated global terrorist group and call the move a “pliable form of economic pressure” looked frankly ridiculous.

The strikes carried out by the U.S. in response to the Red Sea attacks by the Houthis did not deter the Yemeni militiamen.

Houthi Red Sea operations are designed to put pressure on the U.S. and Western powers to secure a ceasefire in Gaza.

[T]he U.S. ... has little chance of success. It is impossible to defeat Houthis with air strikes.

In Yemen, Washington seriously tried to put those it considered out of line in their place for the first time and did so in its traditional style, clumsily.

Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia in itself is a good thing. It is always best to communicate directly.

[T]errorist attack launched by the Houthis on the UAE is another clear indication of the enormous security challenges faced by the Persian Gulf.