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


Houthis to release key ally of Saudi-backed government, unclear if he is alive

Qahtan, whose Islah party is a powerful member of the Saudi-backed government, was detained by the Houthis in 2015.

 Yemen's Interior Minister Abdul Qader Qahtan (front R) speaks to reporters at the site where illegal drugs were burnt in Sanaa February 29, 2012. Yemeni authorities on Wednesday burned more than four tons of hashish and 4.6 million tablets of Captagon, which weighed 16kg (35 pounds).

Anti-Israel activists deface WWI, Civil War memorials, burn US flag

Anti-Israel activists vandalized American war memorials during a New York protest, burning the flag. Mayor condemned vandalism, offering rewards for arrests.

 Memorial statue defaced by anti-Israel activists in New York. (Illustrative) Uploaded on 8/5/2024

Iran asked Sudan to allow a Naval Base on its Red Sea coast

Sudanese senior advisor says that Iran wants to build a naval base on their land and offers a helicopter carrier as payment. Sudan rejects the offer in fear of the US and Israel's response.


Rebels take control of Sudan's second-largest city, endangering refugees

Claims also emerged that the SAF and local police were targeting individuals based on ethnicity, arresting civilians from Darfur without proper cause.

 Civilians who fled the war-torn Sudan arrive in a courtesy bus near the border crossing point in Renk County of Upper Nile State, South Sudan May 1, 2023

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Sudan civil war: Still no end in sight - opinion

The entire Sudanese nation is a victim of this pitiless and uncompromising struggle for power.

 Sudan’s General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan salutes as he listens to the national anthem after landing at the military airport of Port Sudan on August 27, 2023.

The religious-secular divide: How to calm the water, and how to stir them up - analysis

Whether this is a full-fledged "religious war" or just the most recent permutation of religious-secular battles that have continued unabated since the state's founding is a matter for debate.

 WE WOULD all have benefited from a different approach that left Yom Kippur outside the struggle, says the writer.

Politicians can't stop the civil war time bomb - but these 2 men can - opinion

MIDDLE ISRAEL: The constitutional convention Israel needs cannot be led by the people who created the crisis it will solve.

 LAW PROFESSOR emeritus Shimon Shetreet, a former Labor Party MK and minister, could help draw up a formula to solve the judicial reform crisis.

‘Blood could be shed’ over judicial reform, ex-Shin Bet head warns

According to former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon, the challenge facing Israel is to "channel all of that energy into a resolution."

 (L-R) Benjamin Netanyahu, Isaac Herzog, Yoav Gallant and Herzi Halevi seen in Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023

Sudan: A battlefield for close friends-turned-rival warlords - opinion

The two protagonists in the power struggle are Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the SAF, and his deputy in the military but also leader of the RSF, General Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo.

 SUDAN’S GENERAL Abdel Fattah al-Burhan salutes for the national anthem after landing in the military airport of Port Sudan on Sunday, on his first trip away from Khartoum since the internal conflict broke out.