Civil War

Yemen’s government needs weapons, but they can’t come from the US or Israel, expert tells 'Post'

Though an expert from the Royal United Services Institute said that the Houthis needed to be defeated, he insisted this could only come about by empowering the legitimate government - not airstrikes.

Houthi control around Bab el-Mandeb gives Iran-aligned forces leverage over a second major maritime choke point, opposite the Strait of Hormuz on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula. A Yemeni government army officer gestures as he rides a boat in Bab el-Mandeb, Yemen, April 2.
Members of the Ethiopian Federal Police (EFP) patrol after Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) army retreated from the regional capital Mekelle, Tigray Region, Ethiopia, October 8, 2026.

Ethiopian-Eritrean fighting raises fears of wider war as Egypt builds Red Sea alliance - analysis

An internally displaced Yemeni boy carries sticks of firewood on his head at a makeshift camp for the internally displaced who fled their homes due to renewed clashes between Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces and the Houthi authorities in the northern Hajjah governorate on October 7, 2026.

Yemen displacement surges past 200,000 following fresh Houthi offensive, UN migration body warns

Pro-Saudi-backed Yemeni government fighters sit in the back of a vehicle during what government forces say was an advance against the Iran-backed Houthis, near Dhubab, Taiz Governorate, Yemen, in this still image taken from video released October 5, 2026.

Graphic footage shows Yemeni troops running over Houthi fighters in battle for Red Sea strait


Likud minister calls for civil war to 'defeat Left'

Minister Amsalem suggests civil war may be needed to "defeat the Left," while opposition leader Lapid warns of a "criminal government."

 MK Dudi Amsalem reacts during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 19, 2022.

Barak's civil war prediction: A warning or exaggeration? - comment

The question is: which voices deserve our attention and amplification?

Israelis protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem on August 01, 2020.

'There will be no civil war': Netanyahu fires back on X

"The State of Israel is a state of law and according to the law, the Israeli government decides who will be the head of the Shin Bet," Netanyahu wrote on X.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.

'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled - review

In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.

 ‘THE OLD PLANTATION,’ watercolor attributed to John Rose, possibly painted between 1785 and 1795 in the Beaufort District of South Carolina.

Forbidden no more: Residents return to Palmyra as military zones reopen

After years away from its impressive Greco-Roman ruins, the inhabitants have returned to stroll among its monuments.

 Forbidden no more: Residents return to Palmyra as military zones reopen.

A nation divided: Will Syria be better now that Assad is gone? - opinion

What will happen next is not a mystery. There are only a few realistic scenarios, considering that the groups that toppled Assad are former ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorists.

 Syrian caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir delivers Friday sermon at the Umayyad Mosque, after fighters of the ruling Syrian body ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, in the Damascus old city, Syria, December 13, 2024.

Assad’s fall won’t revive the Arab Spring - opinion

The battle to oust Assad has long ceased to be about democratic reforms or justice for the Syrian people.

 THE ARAB Contact Group on Syria meets in Aqaba, this past Saturday. Those present included US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, and the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Lebanon.

'Every shot fired went into a man': Syrians recall horrors at site of suspected mass killings

Tadamon became infamous after a video emerged in 2022 showing a man in military fatigues leading unarmed, blindfolded men towards a large ditch.

 An elderly woman reacts in Tadamon district, littered with bones after what residents and rights groups described as years of killings there under the rule of Syria's Bashar al-Assad, following al-Assad's ousting by fighters of the ruling Syrian body, in Damascus, Syria, December 12, 2024.

Distancing ourselves from civil war - opinion

Political leaders with a sense of responsibility, as demonstrated by Begin in 1948, would be warmly welcomed these days.

Ex-PM Naftali Bennett (left) and his FM, Yair Lapid, hold a news conference in the Knesset in 2022. After the formation of the short-lived ‘government of change’ established by Bennett and Lapid in June 2021, the opposition’s rhetoric in the Knesset deteriorated rapidly, the writer argues.

RSF attack on Sudanese village leaves 85 dead amid escalating violence

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces launched a brutal attack on the village of Galgani, killing at least 85 people, including women and children.

 Families flee RSF advances in Sudan's El Gezira state, on Sennar Road in the city of al-Dinder, Sennar state, Sudan, July 18, 2024.