The Yemen Houthi military is reporting that thousands of Saudi troops including mercenaries, border troops and several Saudi officers have been captured or killed in Operation Victory From God. Al Jazeera is reporting that the Houthi targeted the southern region...
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The Attack on Saudi Oil guest Will Porter
On FPF #400, Will Porter returns to the show to breakdown the attack on Saudi oil infrastructure that took half of the Saudi's oil production offline. Will describes the attack and evidence produced by Saudi Arabia. The Houthis have claimed they carried out the...
Saudis ‘Unaware’ Bombed Yemen Prison Held Prisoners
By Jason Ditz On Sunday, Saudi warplanes attacked and destroyed a prison in the Yemeni city of Dhamar, killing an estimated 130 prisoners. Saudi officials are now saying they had no idea that the prison held any prisoners, nor had they added the prison to the “no...
UAE Quitting Yemen War?
There was this report of limited withdrawals the other day, but now the WSJ is saying they're quitting the war against the Houthis entirely, and now are going to focus on fighting their al Qaeda and ISIS allies. Who knows? Cross-posted at Antiwar.com.
5/31/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the Humanitarian Disaster in Yemen
Nasser Arrabyee is back with an update on the war in Yemen, where the UN estimates a quarter of a million people have died either in combat or because of the deprivation resulting from the war. Arrabyee reminds us that the objectives of this war are totally...
Yemen’s Houthi rebels are not Iran proxies
Samuel Ramani writes in the Washington Post that the Houthi rebels targeting of Saudi oil facilities has more to do with internal Houthi issues than with any desire to retaliate against US sanctions on Iran. Although Houthi drone strikes can be plausibly explained by...
Tripwires for War with Iran guest Will Porter
Will Porter returns to FPF to break down events in the Middle East that could cause a larger conflict between the US and Iran. In Syria, the US is again claiming the Iran-backed Assad government is using chemical weapons against its own civilians. In Iraq, the US...
The US-Saudi Genocide in Yemen
The New York Times finally gets around to mentioning the "price" Yemeni civilians are paying in the war -- only to blame it all on Saudi, and the Houthis, of course.
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