by Salman Al-dossary | Apr 3, 2015 | Opinion
Yemen’s ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh used to claim boastfully that ruling Yemen is “like dancing on the heads of snakes.” He bragged about being skilled at playing this game and unilaterally ruling Yemen for decades. This was the equation that an “elected”...
by Salman Al-dossary | Feb 9, 2015 | Opinion
The Houthi movement succeeded in misleading the entire Yemeni political establishment for about 141 days. They misled outgoing president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi (who is currently still under house arrest). They misled the UN assistant secretary-general and special...
by Arafat Madabish | Jan 25, 2015 | Middle East
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Several Yemeni provinces have cut off ties with the capital Sana’a, now under the virtual control of the Houthi movement, as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to Yemen’s streets to protest the group’s control over large parts of the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 21, 2015 | Middle East
Sana’a, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemen’s Houthi fighters took up guard at President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s home on Wednesday but said they had not toppled him, after two days of fighting that have put the Shi’ite group in all but total control...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 20, 2015 | Middle East
Sana’a, AP—Yemen’s powerful Shiite Houthi rebels shelled the residence of the country’s embattled president Tuesday and simultaneously swept into the presidential palace in the capital, Sana’a, as a top military commander warned that a...
