https://znetwork.org/category/place/middle-east/yemen/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:35:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/middle-east/yemen/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-the-human-cost-of-imperial-ambitions/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-the-human-cost-of-imperial-ambitions/#respond Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:34:55 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293586 The conflict in Yemen, a country already exhausted by more than a decade of war, is entering another uncertain phase. In recent weeks, fighters aligned with the Southern Transitional Council (STC)—backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—have taken control of large parts of Hadramout and al-Mahra in southern and eastern Yemen, including key cities and security installations. These provinces [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-the-human-cost-of-imperial-ambitions/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-the-real-outlaw-at-sea-trumps-tanker-grab-vs-the-houthis-anti-genocide-blockade/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-the-real-outlaw-at-sea-trumps-tanker-grab-vs-the-houthis-anti-genocide-blockade/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292683 The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying dozens of small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific under the banner of “drug enforcement,” killing over 100 people whose identities the U.S. has obscured. At the same time, the Trump administration has threatened [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/whos-the-real-outlaw-at-sea-trumps-tanker-grab-vs-the-houthis-anti-genocide-blockade/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemens-civil-war-has-taken-a-dangerous-new-turn/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemens-civil-war-has-taken-a-dangerous-new-turn/#respond Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:35:18 +0000 Forces from the Southern Transitional Council (STC) have taken control of Yemen’s two eastern governorates, Hadhramaut and al Mahrah, to the dismay of both Saudi Arabia and Oman. The Saudi kingdom backs the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG), which had already lost control of Yemen’s capital Sana’a and much of its territory to the rival administration [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemens-civil-war-has-taken-a-dangerous-new-turn/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-killed-31-journalists-in-yemen-in-deadliest-attack-on-press-in-16-years/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-killed-31-journalists-in-yemen-in-deadliest-attack-on-press-in-16-years/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:40:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289140 The Committee to Protect Journalists says recent Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen killed 31 journalists and media support workers, making it the deadliest attack on journalists anywhere in the world in 16 years. CPJ said the attack was the second-deadliest attack on the press ever recorded by the organization. “These are civilians,” says [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/israel-killed-31-journalists-in-yemen-in-deadliest-attack-on-press-in-16-years/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-targeting-civilians-in-yemen-as-well-as-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-targeting-civilians-in-yemen-as-well-as-gaza/#respond Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:36:06 +0000 On August 28, Israel launched an air strike on the Yemeni capital Sana’a that assassinated much of the Houthi-appointed cabinet, including the prime minister, Ahmad al-Rahawi, nine other ministers, and two senior officials. Most likely others were killed and their names will eventually emerge. The bombing is certainly the most successful Israeli attack on the organization’s senior [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-targeting-civilians-in-yemen-as-well-as-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-yemens-ansar-allah-brought-maritime-capitalism-to-a-halt/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-yemens-ansar-allah-brought-maritime-capitalism-to-a-halt/#respond Fri, 16 May 2025 16:30:00 +0000 On May 12, a New York Times article titled “Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia” inadvertently revealed the truth about the US-led coalition’s failure in Yemen. The piece noted that while the United States was burning through munitions, Yemen’s Houthis, or Ansar Allah, continued firing at ships and shooting down drones with impunity. In other [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-yemens-ansar-allah-brought-maritime-capitalism-to-a-halt/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-unimpressive-yemen-cease-fire-deal/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-unimpressive-yemen-cease-fire-deal/#respond Mon, 12 May 2025 17:27:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283650 We already knew Donald Trump’s bombing campaign against Yemen was unconstitutional. It turns out it was completely pointless too. Earlier this week, Trump and the Houthi leadership of Yemen announced a sudden cease-fire deal that took many by surprise, with the US president declaring that the Houthis “don’t wanna fight anymore” and had “capitulated.” After two months of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trumps-unimpressive-yemen-cease-fire-deal/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sixty-eight-reported-killed-by-us-airstrike-on-african-migrant-facility-in-yemen/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sixty-eight-reported-killed-by-us-airstrike-on-african-migrant-facility-in-yemen/#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283140 Sixty-eight people were killed by a US airstrike on a detention facility for African migrants in Yemen’s northwestern Saada province, Yemen’s Al Masirah TV has reported. Another 47 were injured by the US attack, which hit the facility early Monday morning. Footage and photos of the aftermath of the strike show bodies strewn in the rubble [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/sixty-eight-reported-killed-by-us-airstrike-on-african-migrant-facility-in-yemen/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/with-yemen-attack-us-continues-long-history-of-deliberately-bombing-hospitals/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/with-yemen-attack-us-continues-long-history-of-deliberately-bombing-hospitals/#respond Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:11:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282358 In repeatedly targeting and destroying a cancer center in Yemen, the United States has carried on a long pattern of bombing hospitals. On March 24, the United States carried out a premeditated attack on the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen, turning it into rubble. At least two people were killed and 13 more injured. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/with-yemen-attack-us-continues-long-history-of-deliberately-bombing-hospitals/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/top-houthi-official-tells-drop-site-yemen-will-cease-attacks-on-u-s-ships-if-trump-halts-bombing/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/top-houthi-official-tells-drop-site-yemen-will-cease-attacks-on-u-s-ships-if-trump-halts-bombing/#respond Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:25:26 +0000 A senior leader of Ansar Allah, commonly known as the Houthis, told Drop Site News that if the U.S. ends its campaign of air strikes against Yemen, Houthi forces will commit to halting all attacks on U.S. ships in the region. “We do not consider ourselves at war with the American people,” said Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/top-houthi-official-tells-drop-site-yemen-will-cease-attacks-on-u-s-ships-if-trump-halts-bombing/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-scandal-of-yemen-bombing-is-not-that-they-used-the-wrong-app/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-scandal-of-yemen-bombing-is-not-that-they-used-the-wrong-app/#respond Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:36:00 +0000 The Houthis, formally known as Ansar Allah, are the de facto government in northwest Yemen. The group began as a religious movement among the Zaydis, an idiosyncratic branch of Shia Islam, before taking a political-military turn in the 2000s. Since 2014, Ansar Allah has been a powerful faction in the country’s civil war, fighting against the Republic of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-scandal-of-yemen-bombing-is-not-that-they-used-the-wrong-app/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-is-acting-responsibly-to-stop-genocide-and-the-u-s-is-bombing-them-for-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-is-acting-responsibly-to-stop-genocide-and-the-u-s-is-bombing-them-for-it/#respond Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:45:03 +0000 The U.S. is bombing Yemen because Yemen is acting, as required by international law, to stop the genocide and unlawful siege in Palestine.  This is not an editorial opinion. It is a statement of both law and fact.  Neither of these facts has been featured in the reporting or commentary of Western media corporations, let [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-is-acting-responsibly-to-stop-genocide-and-the-u-s-is-bombing-them-for-it/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/secrecy-and-virtue-signalling-another-view-of-signalgate/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/secrecy-and-virtue-signalling-another-view-of-signalgate/#respond Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:20:50 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281902 There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic to the chat chain of Signal by US National Security Advisor Michael Waltz.  Condemnation of the error spans the spectrum from clownish to dangerous.  There has been virtually nothing on the importance of such leaks of national security information [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/secrecy-and-virtue-signalling-another-view-of-signalgate/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-in-yemen/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-in-yemen/#respond Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:49:35 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281793 Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” Their largest banner proclaims: “Yemen is Starving.” Other signs say: “Put a human face on war in Yemen,” and “Let Yemen Live.” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-in-yemen/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-about-the-yemen-signal-group-is-that-it-called-for-attack-on-civilian-home/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-about-the-yemen-signal-group-is-that-it-called-for-attack-on-civilian-home/#respond Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:49:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281658 The American political landscape has been rattled by revelations that the Trump administration discussed plans to strike Houthi rebels in Yemen in a chat group containing a journalist from The Atlantic. Senior Trump administration officials are facing tough questions about their operational security, use of consumer technology, and even their emoji usage. So far, however, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-real-outrage-about-the-yemen-signal-group-is-that-it-called-for-attack-on-civilian-home/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-officials-errant-signal-messages-reveal-the-cynical-and-shallow-motivations-behind-bombing-of-civilians-in-yemen/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-officials-errant-signal-messages-reveal-the-cynical-and-shallow-motivations-behind-bombing-of-civilians-in-yemen/#respond Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:01:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281606 The high-level Trump administration Signal message thread on bombing Yemen on which someone on the staff of National Security Adviser Michael Waltz included The Atlantic‘s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg is what is impolitely called in the military a SNAFU (Situation Normal All F*cked Up). Yes, it is a security breach of gargantuan proportions. Yes, the whole exchange was illegal [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/trump-officials-errant-signal-messages-reveal-the-cynical-and-shallow-motivations-behind-bombing-of-civilians-in-yemen/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disappearing-war-chat/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disappearing-war-chat/#respond Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:54:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281591 In his article about being invited by U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to a Signal chat with the U.S. secretaries of state, defense and treasury, the U.S. vice president and the directors of national intelligence and the C.I.A., Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg writes that Waltz set at least some of the text messages in the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-disappearing-war-chat/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/major-us-attacks-in-northern-yemen-as-trump-vows-overwhelming-lethal-force/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/major-us-attacks-in-northern-yemen-as-trump-vows-overwhelming-lethal-force/#respond Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1281120 US airstrikes are reportedly hitting the Yemeni capital city of Sanaa today, with President Trump promising “overwhelming lethal force” against the Houthi movement in northern Yemen unless they stop all attacks on international shipping. Early casualty figures indicate a lot of civilians have been killed or wounded. The most recent figures from al-Mayadeen were at least 24 killed and many more [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/major-us-attacks-in-northern-yemen-as-trump-vows-overwhelming-lethal-force/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/houthis-issue-ultimatum-to-israel-yemen-will-resume-naval-blockade-if-aid-is-not-allowed-into-gaza/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/houthis-issue-ultimatum-to-israel-yemen-will-resume-naval-blockade-if-aid-is-not-allowed-into-gaza/#respond Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:06:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280786 Yemen’s Houthi leader issued an ultimatum on Friday for Israel and international mediators negotiating the Gaza “ceasefire” deal: Allow humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip in the next four days, or the Houthis will restart their maritime attacks and blockade against Israel. The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, had halted these operations following [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/houthis-issue-ultimatum-to-israel-yemen-will-resume-naval-blockade-if-aid-is-not-allowed-into-gaza/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-vows-to-assassinate-houthi-leaders-amid-intensifying-airstrikes-in-yemen/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-vows-to-assassinate-houthi-leaders-amid-intensifying-airstrikes-in-yemen/#respond Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:10:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1277681 Emboldened by the results of 14 months of regional war, and backed by the U.S., Israel has steadily intensified its bombing attacks against Yemen. On Thursday, Israel launched a wave of airstrikes on Yemen’s capital and the port of Hodeidah, targeting Sana’a International Airport with four airstrikes just one day after the Houthis targeted Tel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-vows-to-assassinate-houthi-leaders-amid-intensifying-airstrikes-in-yemen/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-israeli-port-attack-possible-war-crime-retaliatory-july-strike-on-hodeidah-threatens-food-aid-electricity-supply/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-israeli-port-attack-possible-war-crime-retaliatory-july-strike-on-hodeidah-threatens-food-aid-electricity-supply/#respond Tue, 20 Aug 2024 16:36:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271060 The Israeli airstrikes on Yemen’s Hodeidah port on the evening of July 20, 2024, were an apparently unlawful indiscriminate or disproportionate attack on civilians that could have a long-term impact on millions of Yemenis who rely on the port for food and humanitarian aid, Human Rights Watch said today. The Israeli strikes came a day after a Houthi drone strike, which may [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/yemen-israeli-port-attack-possible-war-crime-retaliatory-july-strike-on-hodeidah-threatens-food-aid-electricity-supply/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-naval-efforts-falter-as-yemens-blockade-bankrupts-israels-eilat-port/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-naval-efforts-falter-as-yemens-blockade-bankrupts-israels-eilat-port/#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:47:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269534 Despite the formation of a multinational naval coalition led by the United States, the Israeli-controlled Port of Eilat has reportedly gone bankrupt and is seeking a government bailout. The situation underscores the failure of U.S.-led efforts against Yemen’s Ansar Allah–known pejoratively as the Houthis–blockade in the Red Sea, enforced until Israel ends its war on [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/us-naval-efforts-falter-as-yemens-blockade-bankrupts-israels-eilat-port/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/turning-the-red-sea-redder/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/turning-the-red-sea-redder/#respond Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:07:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1268738 In mid-June, the Associated Press announced that the U.S. Navy had been engaged in the most intense naval combat since the end of World War II, which surely would come as a surprise to most Americans. This time, the fighting isn’t taking place in the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans but in the Red Sea and the adversary [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/turning-the-red-sea-redder/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inside-yemens-capture-of-israels-galaxy-leader-ship/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inside-yemens-capture-of-israels-galaxy-leader-ship/#respond Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1264530 In November, Yemen’s Ansar Allah captured the Galaxy Leader, a cargo ship owned by Abraham Ungar, an Israeli billionaire with links to Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party. Images of the daring raid went viral, and the ship continues to be in Yemeni hands, with Ansar Allah even opening the ship up as an unlikely tourist attraction. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/inside-yemens-capture-of-israels-galaxy-leader-ship/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yemen-leader-attacks-in-red-sea-will-stop-when-gaza-genocide-stops/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yemen-leader-attacks-in-red-sea-will-stop-when-gaza-genocide-stops/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2024 17:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1263229 Rania Khalek is joined by Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesman for Yemen’s Ansarallah, referred to incorrectly in the West as the “Houthis,” to discuss Yemen’s intervention against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. He explains what it will take to stop their attacks on ships in the Red Sea, and their demands to the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yemen-leader-attacks-in-red-sea-will-stop-when-gaza-genocide-stops/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/red-sea-attacks-in-sympathy-with-gaza-escalate-as-yemeni-houthis-resilience-surprises-biden/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/red-sea-attacks-in-sympathy-with-gaza-escalate-as-yemeni-houthis-resilience-surprises-biden/#respond Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262826 The Helpers of God (Ansar Allah) or Houthis in Yemen are proving a bigger challenge for the Biden Administration’s attempt to run interference for the Israeli atrocities in Gaza than Washington had expected. Just Monday morning the Yemeni forces fired a ballistic missile at the US-owned and -operated M/V Torm Thor, an oil tanker, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/red-sea-attacks-in-sympathy-with-gaza-escalate-as-yemeni-houthis-resilience-surprises-biden/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/america-is-the-mother-of-terrorism-why-the-houthis-new-slogan-is-important-for-understanding-the-middle-east/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/america-is-the-mother-of-terrorism-why-the-houthis-new-slogan-is-important-for-understanding-the-middle-east/#respond Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262159 Yemen’s Houthi militants continue to disrupt shipping in the Red Sea, undeterred by the intensifying Western airstrikes or the group’s re-designation as a “global terrorist” organisation. As their attacks have intensified, the group’s slogan (or sarkha, meaning “scream”) has also gained notoriety. Banners bearing the sarkha dot the streets in areas of Yemen under Houthi control and are brandished by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/america-is-the-mother-of-terrorism-why-the-houthis-new-slogan-is-important-for-understanding-the-middle-east/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/top-3-things-biden-could-do-instead-of-intensively-bombing-iraq-and-syria/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/top-3-things-biden-could-do-instead-of-intensively-bombing-iraq-and-syria/#respond Sat, 03 Feb 2024 14:32:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261680 The Biden administration launched 85 air strikes on Friday against small bases of the Party of God Brigades (Kata’ib Hizbullah), an Iraqi Shiite militia active in Iraq and Syria. The organization is likely the culprit in Sunday’s drone strike against the Tower 22 US base in the far north of Jordan on the border with [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/top-3-things-biden-could-do-instead-of-intensively-bombing-iraq-and-syria/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yemens-houthis-speak-to-mintpress-about-u-s-attacks-their-blockade-of-israel/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yemens-houthis-speak-to-mintpress-about-u-s-attacks-their-blockade-of-israel/#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2024 17:31:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1261495 Joining the “MintCast” today to discuss the blockade and Yemen’s escalating tensions with the United States is Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesperson for Yemen’s Ansar Allah.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/yemens-houthis-speak-to-mintpress-about-u-s-attacks-their-blockade-of-israel/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-must-choose-between-a-ceasefire-in-gaza-and-a-regional-war/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-must-choose-between-a-ceasefire-in-gaza-and-a-regional-war/#respond Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:56:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261218 In the topsy-turvy world of corporate media reporting on U.S. foreign policy, we have been led to believe that U.S. air strikes on Yemen, Iraq and Syria are legitimate and responsible efforts to contain the expanding war over Israel’s genocide in Gaza, while the actions of the Houthi government in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/biden-must-choose-between-a-ceasefire-in-gaza-and-a-regional-war/feed/ 0