As the Houthis have continued to launch missiles at Israel, including firing a cluster munition for the first time on August 22, Israel responded with strikes in Houthi-controlled territory on...
First Houthi Use of Cluster Warhead in Israel: An Israeli military investigation concluded that a missile launched by the Iran-backed Yemeni Houthis on August 22 carried a cluster...
Houthis Threaten Renewed Red Sea Escalation: Houthi rebels in Yemen have threatened to escalate attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea in the latest phase of the...
Now is the perfect time to tighten the financial thumbscrews on Iran. The clerical regime has been significantly weakened by the unprecedented Israeli and U.S. military attacks on the Islamic Republic...
Tehran is still arming the Houthis. Yemen’s National Resistance Forces (NRF), an anti-Houthi coalition, intercepted 750 tons of Iranian weapons en route to the Houthi-controlled port of al-Salif from...
In late June, the US Treasury Department levied its largest batch of sanctions against the Houthis, targeting individuals and entities involved in the importation and smuggling of oil and other goods. “Today’s...
The Houthis are the only Iranian proxy to openly attack Israel in solidarity with Iran during the latter two countries’ most recent conflict. The Yemeni terrorist group has fired ballistic missiles at...
President Rashad al Alimi, the chairman of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 28 to discuss the relationship between their two countries....
It’s too soon for another US “mission accomplished” in the Middle East. President Donald Trump this month announced a halt to US airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, claiming the group “capitulated” and would cease targeting American vessels and Red Sea traffic.
On May 6, US President Donald Trump announced an end to Operation Rough Rider, the US offensive against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, saying the Houthis and the US had reached an agreement....
The Israeli military confirmed that it carried out airstrikes on May 5 against Houthi targets in Yemen, a day after a ballistic missile launched by the Iran-backed group struck the grounds of...
The Houthis have responded to the ongoing US campaign against the group with attacks targeting the United States and Israel, as well as ostensibly punitive economic measures. US Central Command...
The Trump administration is following through on the promise of a whole-of-government approach to stopping Houthi terrorism. While U.S. Central Command forces have been continuously striking the group...
Amid daily U.S. airstrikes, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels appear increasingly vulnerable to their Yemeni rivals. Those rivals are reportedly planning a ground offensive whose goals include recapturing...
Anti-Houthi “Yemeni militias are planning a ground offensive against the Houthis,” according to Yemeni and US officials cited by the Wall Street Journal. The plans follow over a month...
“Turkey is a country that loves us, and we love it,” declared Abu Omar al-Nahdi, a former emir in al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch and now the leader of the newly formed Change and Liberation Movement in...
The Houthis, the Iran-backed terrorist group ruling northern Yemen, have kidnapped more than 75 people since the US began its large-scale operation against the group, according to SAM, a Geneva-based human rights organization focused on the Middle East.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) has conducted consistent airstrikes against the Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, since March 15. The operation is in response to the Yemeni...
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi visited Sanaa in Yemen to meet with the Iranian-backed Houthis days after the US launched airstrikes on the Houthis. His trip also came as the Houthis...
Iran has made private requests to Yemen’s Houthis to “cool tensions” in the Red Sea, according to Reuters. The report states that two senior Iranian officials said Iran sent a message to...