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Militiamen loyal to President Hadi drive tanks outside the Special Security Forces base in Aden on March 19, 2015.
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Opinion: The Battle for Yemen’s Future

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | May 7, 2015 | Opinion

The Yemeni crisis involves several parties, but it can be summed up as being a conflict between forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Houthi rebels on one hand, and Yemen’s legitimate government on the other, backed by the Saudi-led...

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Smoke billows as supporters of exiled Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi continue to clash with Houthi rebels in the Khor Maksar neighborhood of Aden, on May 3, 2015. (AFP/Saleh Al-Obeid)

Yemen: Hadi’s government urges allies to intervene as Houthis enter Aden

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 7, 2015 | Middle East

Aden, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s government-in-exile on Wednesday called on Arab and international allies to intervene immediately in the war-torn state after the Houthi movement captured one of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s last strongholds, killing and injuring...

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File photo of the MV Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, the world’s biggest container ship, arriving at the harbour of Rotterdam August 16, 2013. (Reuters)

Iran says Maersk ship released, has left its territorial waters: ISNA

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 7, 2015 | Middle East

Ankara, Reuters—Iran has released a Marshall-Islands flagged container ship and its crew which were seized last month in one of the world’s major oil shipping lanes, the Students News Agency ISNA quoted a foreign ministry official as saying on Thursday. The...

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epa04736406 British Prime Minister and Conservative leader David Cameron (C-R) looks at ‘Fathers For Justice’ protesters as he exits a polling station after voting with his wife Samantha (C-L), at the village of Spelsbury in Oxfordshire, Britain, 07 May 2015. (EPA/Andy Rain)

Britain’s dead-heat election “down to the wire” on polling day

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 7, 2015 | World

London, Reuters—Britons went to vote on Thursday in the tightest election for decades; one that could cause government gridlock, push the world’s fifth-largest economy closer to leaving the European Union and stoke a second attempt by Scotland to break away....