by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 16, 2014 | Middle East
Sana’a, Reuters/Asharq Al-Awsat—Houthi fighters prevented Yemen’s new army chief from entering the defense ministry on Tuesday in a fresh show of power, a day after the Shi’ite faction accused the president of promoting corruption and demanded that...
by Arafat Madabish | Oct 25, 2014 | Middle East
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Houthi militants captured a historic castle in Al-Hudaydah Governorate on Friday following clashes with members of Hirak Al-Tuhami, an anti-Houthi political group based in the west of the country. “The Houthi militia managed to take...
by Arafat Madabish | Oct 8, 2014 | Middle East
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Houthi movement has rejected the appointment of a new prime minister by Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, as reports say rebels belonging to the Shi’ite group are advancing on the strategically important Bab El-Mandeb Strait to the...
by Arafat Madabish | Sep 24, 2014 | Middle East
Sana’a, Asharq Al-Awsat—Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi said in a meeting at the presidential palace on Tuesday that the Houthi takeover of Sana’a came as a result of “a foreign and internal plot,” warning that the current crisis could plunge the country into...
by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Sep 21, 2014 | Opinion
What is happening in Yemen represents as great a threat, if not more so, than what is happening in Iraq and Syria, at least in the eyes of the Gulf states and particularly Saudi Arabia. The Houthis represent a greater strategic threat to Saudi Arabia and Arabs,...
