Yemen: Aden’s changing alliances erupt into four-year conflict’s newest front
Tue 1 Oct 2019 Every soldier in the Yemeni city of Aden is on edge. The main checkpoint on the coastal road has two large holes in […]
The Ottomans were once humiliated by Yemeni rebels – today, the Houthis have done the same to Saudi Arabia
If the Ottomans had to reform their army, what is to be done with the Saudi military? Mohammad bin Salman thinks he can reform his kingdom’s economy. But his soldiers […]
War and Pestilence: The Ongoing Fragmentation of Yemen
There are hopes that a cease-fire could end the fighting in Yemen’s civil war. But a visit to the front near Hodeida shows that even if the violence stops, it […]
Yemen: All bets are off
Dec 17,2018 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The ceasefire that was brokered in Stockholm between the legitimate Yemeni forces and the Houthi rebels in Hodeida Port city is officially scheduled to […]
UN plan for Yemen
Dec 08,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi has rejected yet again the latest peace proposal presented by the UN special envoy to end the war with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, arguing that accepting it will lead to a “dangerous precedent” that legitimises armed uprisings against […]
Attack kills governor of Yemen’s Aden
Source: Aljazeera The governor of Yemen’s port city of Aden, Major-General Jaafar Mohammed Saad, has been killed in an attack along with six of his bodyguards. Unknown assailants reportedly fired a […]