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Published in: openDemocracyUKSaudi forces are killing civilians in Yemen, so why is the UK still arming the regime?Did the British government lie in court about Saudi arms deals?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe covert drone war in YemenThe United States’ covert drone war in Yemen - at least 15 years old now – continues. European countries are...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPeace talks in Kuwait: will they solve Yemen’s crisis?There is no doubt that the military stalemate is a major reason leading to the Kuwait negotiations. After 14 months...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaChristians among the victims in an unstable YemenChristians and Yemen’s other dwindling minorities are now being targeted with little hope of protection from a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Iraq and Syria didn’t create ISIS - we didAfter the Paris attacks, ISIS became yesterday’s story, as if the terrorist movement had disappeared into far lands...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe current situation in Yemen: causes and consequencesThe conflict will not lead to a clear victory: there will need to be some difficult compromises. Meanwhile, the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCan the Saudi-led coalition win the war in Yemen?Those deciding for war in March 2015 gave little thought to Yemeni realities, military, logistic, topographic,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen: independent intellectuals under threatPolarisation is wiping out all independent or dissenting voices. Yemeni intellectuals are constantly at risk of acts...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCan Yemenis escape?So what are Yemenis to do? Close the doors of their houses and slowly die of starvation and thirst? Or move en...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhere is the outrage on David Cameron’s scandal in the Gulf?The UAE, we now know, was busy planning its own operation against Muslim Brotherhood affiliates at home while urging...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemen is not Paris: western media’s cold shoulderYemen is a failed state devastated by fighting, with thousands of civilians killed by a strong jihadist presence and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSaudi blockade threatens famine in YemenYemeni civilians are starving as the international community tacitly allows the blockade to continue. It must be...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia'Something wicked this way comes': the Arab transitions (part 2)An excerpt from a NOREF report on the background to the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia'Something wicked this way comes': the Arab transitions (part 1)An excerpt from a NOREF report on the background to the current situation in the Middle East, focusing on the...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHumanitarian pauses in Yemen?To re-emphasise, it is now estimated that 80% of the country’s population, over 21 million people, are in need of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe limited effectiveness of US Middle East policyThere's not much the US can do in a post-Saddam Middle East except practice containment (and keep up...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen: under fire, desperate for peaceCan the Yemen peace talks succeed? The dire humanitarian situation demands it but political factionalism and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOut of the Middle EastIt is time for Arab Gulf countries to stop being on the defensive and to accept their responsibility for what is...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSpilling the beans, Riyadh styleWith recent events, the Saudis are involuntarily proving Obama's point: petrodollars and weapons cannot buy them...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen at warWith a humanitarian crisis mounting in Yemen, Saudi Arabia has eased its military pressure—for the moment.
