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Unlike Israel’s Netanyahu, Saudi Arabia now says it supports Iran Nuclear Deal

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Saudi-owned, pan-Arab London daily al-Sharq al-Awsat (the Middle East) reported on the meeting Friday between King Salman of Saudi Arabia and President…

War-Torn Yemen faces Disease Outbreaks w/out Humanitarian Corridor

By Kanya D'Almeida | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - An outbreak of dengue fever in Yemen’s most populated governorate has prompted urgent calls from the World Health…

Saudi-led war in Yemen provokes Humanitarian Crisis, 1.2 mn. displaced

By Kitty Stapp | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Doctors Without Borders . . . is warning that the violence in Yemen “has radically increased” since March,…

How Iran Deal Could Change the Middle East

By Benjamin Tua | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - Washington's rapprochement with Iran has opened the door for major realignments from Israel to Afghanistan. Similar to the dissolution of Yugoslavia…

Yemen: Saudi & Coalition guilty of War Crimes for Bombing Civilians: HRW

Human Rights Watch | - - (Sanaa) – Saudi-led coalition airstrikes that killed at least 65 civilians, including 10 children, and wounded dozens in the Yemeni port city of Mokha on July…

Yemen: As Aden Falls to pro-Saudi forces, Focus now on Taiz

Natasha Ghoneim | (Aljazeera English Video report) "Houthi fighters in Yemen have fired artillery shells into the port city of Aden.The latest casualty count in the shelling is more than 40 dead…

Iran’s Khamenei Praises Nuclear Deal, but slams US Foreign Policy

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's clerical Leader, appeared to be attempting to mollify hard liners on Friday in his Friday prayers addresses. On the…

Yemen Is Starving, and We’re Partly to Blame

By Chris Toensing | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - 80 percent of people in the Arab world's poorest country are in danger of starving to death under a U.S.-backed blockade…

Yemen: Caught between Saudis & Houthis, Children Pay Price of War

By Belkis Wille | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - The deliberate targeting of schools has become a flashpoint in the war between Yemen's rebels and a Saudi-led coalition. Hisham Yahya,…

ISIL and the Middle East Generational Shift (with Juan Cole)

Elliot Hill | (The LipTV Video) | - - "With ISIS rampaging through Syria and Iraq, and a generational shift in politics and religion happening across the Middle East, we dissect some…

Yemen: Saudi Airstrikes kill 58, including dozens of Women and Children

RT | (Video report) -- "Saudi-led coalition warplanes are continuing to pound Houthi targets in Yemen despite the rebels agreeing to UN-backed peace talks. The strikes have killed 58 people across the…

Yemen conflict fans food insecurity

By Peter Salisbury and Louise Redvers | (IRIN) - AMMAN / DUBAI (IRIN) - The conflict in Yemen is worsening the country's food insecurity, according to a new report, which predicts that…

Richest Countries Bomb among World’s Poorest: Yemen already a Forgotten War

VICE News | (Video) | - "For more than six weeks, nine countries led by Saudi Arabia have been carrying out airstrikes on Yemen, the Arab world's poorest nation. Whole neighborhoods have…

Are the Houthis in Yemen really Iranian “Proxies”? What does that even Mean?

By Ari Heistein | (Informed Comment) -- A 2014 al-Monitor headline declared “Yemen’s Houthis Proxy, not Ally for Iran” but then neglected to explain the difference. It is certainly unlikely that the…

Yemen: Fierce fighting in Lead-up to Saudi Ceasefire, Children at risk of Starvation

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - Heavy fighting continued in Yemen on Monday and Tuesday, despite the agreement reached between Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia that a five-day ceasefire would…

Now Yemen’s Houthi Rebels are forcing Children Into Battle

Human Rights Watch | - (Beirut) – The Houthi armed group in Yemen has intensified its recruitment, training, and deployment of children in violation of international law. Since September 2014, when the…

Saudi Arabia as the Incredible Hulk: King Salman snubs Obama’s Gulf Summit

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) -- Watching Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia nowadays, is like Kremlin-watching in the old days of the Cold War. It is not as if most…

Fatal Triangle: Saudi, Iran, US Tensions spike over continued Yemen Airstrikes

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - The attention span of US television news is so short that it is difficult for it to cover ongoing wars in which there isn't…

Beyond the Headlines: The New Arabs (Juan Cole Interview)

Jack Segal | International Affairs Forum (Traverse City) | - "For three decades, Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan has sought to put the…

115 Children Killed: Saudi Arabia’s War on Yemen by the Numbers

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Since the beginning of the Saudi air campaign against the Houthi movement in Yemen on March 26 until April 22, these are the UN statistics…