For a little more than three years, Yemen has been locked in a seemingly intractable civil war that has killed nearly 10,000 people and pushed millions to the brink of starvation. The conflict has its roots in the Arab Spring of 2011, when an uprising forced the country’s long-time authoritarian president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to hand over power to his… Read more »
BASRA/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) – Basra airport was attacked with rockets on Saturday after another night of protests against Iraq’s political elite, during which demonstrators set fire to the Iranian consulate and briefly took oilfield workers hostage. Iraq’s second city has been rocked by five days of demonstrations, in which government buildings have been ransacked and set alight by protesters angry… Read more »
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Despite the collapse of Islamic State last year and a widespread international perception that Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is winning the war, there have been major new escalations around the country. Seven years in, Syria’s conflict has killed hundreds of thousands, driven millions from their homes, disturbed the regional balance of power and dragged in foreign nations… Read more »
Yemen has recently threatened that they would end co-operation with the UN investigators. A rebel spokesman accused the Saudi led coalition of not providing air transport. According to the UN Yemen is the worst humanitarian crisis to date. The coalition’s seemingly indiscriminate bombing practices is drawing fire from the UN. The Yemeni government (which is part of the coalition) claims… Read more »
Washington gives the green light to Syria and her allies to attack the Idlib province. We are giving up a position of power within the deep middle east. In my opinion we shouldn’t have gotten involved in the first place. However we are already involved with this situation. So we should try to help defuse the situation before the offensive… Read more »