How the Houthis and Iranians work together isn’t absolutely clear – but stopping the threat to shipping requires more than shooting down incoming missiles and extends to disrupting an intelligence and targeting system.

The might of the US military no longer guarantees world order. There are new actors and new ecosystems in play.

Washington was wise to delay its retaliation against the Houthis given the regional history with unintended consequences.

Despite deepening hostilities, common strategic interests still bind Israel and most of the Arab states.

Peace is not just the absence of conflict but dismantling the structures that contribute to gender-based violence.

Islamists see advantage in a perceived reduction of America’s commitment to friends. Yemen could be the start.

The prospect of a Biden administration has pro-US leaders in the Middle East seeking to keep their political “winnings”.

Without a ceasefire, a humanitarian catastrophe fuelled by Western arms shipments is about to get much worse.

As Covid-19 threatens some of the world’s most vulnerable, power plays continue in northern Africa and Saudi Arabia.

A legal challenge over UK arms sales to Yemen combatants could put further pressure on Australia’s defence exports.

No one denies Western weapons are used in Yemen but it took a journalist’s death to focus on arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

If pro-Houthi media claims are believed, the use of drones as weapons is increasingly strategic and more than tactical.

Amid claims of human rights abuses, many Yemenis are increasingly coming to view the Emirates as an occupying power.

Throughout the last year, Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi’s control over the south deteriorated.

Saudi meddling in neighbouring Yemen has again come unstuck.

Rare access to Yemen's badlands reveal the human and economic cost of the conflict.

The naval blockade of Yemen has entangled a careless Australia.

'This cholera scandal is entirely man-made by the conflicting parties and those beyond Yemen’s borders, who are leading, supplying, fighting and perpetuating the fear and fighting,'

Yemen has been rather prominent in the Trump Administration's foreign policy agenda.