Yemen News & Analysis

Trump will bring a long list of asks when he visits the Middle East for the first formal trip of his second term. But the Gulf states are not passive actors, and they will be making requests of their own.

President Trump has warned the Houthis – and their backers in Iran – of possible escalation if attacks on Red Sea shipping continue. But there’s a limit to what US airstrikes can hope to achieve.

US-led reprisals against the Houthis amid the ongoing Red Sea crisis have not diminished the group’s military capacity and regional weight. If anything, they have emerged stronger than before.

Hopes of a swift return to the low-rate environment of recent history are being dashed by the Red Sea shipping crisis.

While the geopolitical risks to trade flows are now abundantly clear, officials and executives are still sleeping on potential risks to the free flow of information.

The threat to maritime shipping represented by Red Sea Houthi attacks cannot be fully mitigated without a region-wide strategy aimed at the regime’s backers in Tehran.

A whole-of-region approach from Washington and its allies is the only remedy to a Middle East hurdling toward chaos.

Houthi attacks against global shipping in the Red Sea are exposing some key vulnerabilities in maritime trade and causing a re-think of anti-drone warfare.

Examining the economic costs and geopolitical stakes surrounding Houthi attacks against global shipping in the Red Sea.

Mysterious construction activity suggests that foreign patrons are establishing military facilities on Yemeni territory, whether their erstwhile allies like it or not.

And with it goes any hope of a return to relevance for the internationally-recognized government of President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi.

But amid the total humanitarian and strategic disaster of Riyadh’s war policy, it will still be hard to walk through it.

COVID-19 disrupted planting seasons around the world, and global food prices are starting to reflect it.

Is the Kingdom’s dollar peg in jeopardy?

A food crisis of biblical proportions is brewing in East Africa.