A peace deal in Yemen’s main port city “could be dead within weeks”, British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said during a visit to the country. The Yemeni government and the rebel Houthi movement have yet to implement a UN-brokered plan to pull out and redeploy forces around Hudaydah. The port is the principal lifeline for two-thirds of Yemen’s population,… Read more »
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Recently the President of the United States, Donald Trump, said that american troops should stay on military base in Iraq so the US could “keep an eye on Iran”. A lot of people spoke out against Trump, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani being one of them. Al-Sistani is Iraq’s major shia leader. He mentions that Iraq wants to have good foreign… Read more »