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Kids Are Paying the Price for Yemen’s War

Kids Are Paying the Price for Yemen’s War

by Belkis Wille | Jun 11, 2015 | Human Rights, Redev, Uncategorized

Hisham Yahya, 13, is an eager student. As we sat in the large, empty yard of his school in Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, with weapons debris scattered about, he said he missed going to class. “I just sit at home, it is so boring, and we have no electricity,...
Yemen’s War Is Redrawing the Middle East’s Fault Lines

Yemen’s War Is Redrawing the Middle East’s Fault Lines

by Conn Hallinan | May 11, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace

Yemen is the poorest country in the Arab world, bereft of resources, fractured by tribal divisions and religious sectarianism, and plagued by civil war. And yet this small country tucked into the bottom of the Arabian Peninsula is shattering old alliances and spurring...
How the U.S. Contributed to Yemen’s Crisis

How the U.S. Contributed to Yemen’s Crisis

by Stephen Zunes | Apr 20, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace

As a Saudi-led military coalition continues to pound rebel targets in Yemen, the country is plunging into a humanitarian crisis. Civilian casualties are mounting. With U.S. logistical support, the Saudis are attempting to re-instate the country’s exiled...
Diplomacy Is the Only Plausible Solution to Syria and Yemen

Diplomacy Is the Only Plausible Solution to Syria and Yemen

by Sufyan bin Uzayr | Apr 16, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Human Rights, Redev, War & Peace

When it comes to the Middle East, everything happens at a pace that is too fast to comprehend. Proxy wars, manipulations and unjustifiable violence — unfortunately, a region so blessed and so beautiful is nowadays mostly known for all the wrong things. As of...
Yemen and the Congress of Reaction

Yemen and the Congress of Reaction

by Conn Hallinan | Apr 10, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Redev, War & Peace

Saudi Arabia’s recent intrusion into Yemen is ostensibly part of a bitter proxy war with Iran. But the coalition that Riyadh has assembled to intervene in Yemen’s civil war has more in common with 19th-century Europe than the 21st-century Middle East. The 22-member...
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