Yemen
Hezbollah and the Houthis
In 2007, two operatives, one Iranian, one from Hezbollah, sat down to dinner at a restaurant outside Damascus and started discussing Yemen. What followed was nearly two decades of military assistance, mediation, media training and political network-weaving that turned a marginal movement into the most powerful actor in Yemen.
Tending Aden’s Last Hindu Temple
For nearly three decades, Ahmed Abdul Jalil has watched over a cave temple in Aden, Yemen, built more than 160 years ago. After looters, militants and land-grabbers, he is all that stands between it and ruin.
A Yemeni Maestro’s Mission To Reinvent His Country’s Music
A Yemeni maestro is giving his country’s music a second life, blending folk songs from Hadramawt province with Western orchestras to create something entirely new.
A Pact Between Al-Shabab and the Houthis Threatens Red Sea Shipping
A growing covert alliance between the Houthis in Yemen and al-Shabab in Somalia is creating a new axis of piracy, smuggling and asymmetric warfare along the Red Sea.
One Man’s Mission To Save Yemen’s Ibex
Abdullah Ahmed Salem Mawla al-Dawila turned from killing endangered Nubian ibexes to creating a sanctuary for them in Yemen's Hadramawt province. He now cares for over 50 ibexes and 20 gazelles while contending with disease, limited funding and cultural traditions that glorify hunting the animals.
Before the Signal Scandal, Yemen Was Already on Edge
Scandal in the Trump administration has catapulted Yemen back into global headlines. Yet the country’s future will also be shaped by the less obvious stories that were unfolding in the uneasy lull that has now been shattered — by struggles to govern and the aspirations of ordinary Yemenis.
A Tribal Leader Becomes an Oil Tsar
Amr bin Habresh, leader of the Hadramawt Tribes Alliance, has deployed his armed men to block oil supplies in Yemen's Hadramawt province. His demands include a greater role for the region in national politics and an end to the economic crisis.