Yemen will probably never join the defunct GCC

Yemen will probably never join the defunct GCC

By Austin Bodetti10/7/2019 Mired in political violence since 2015, Yemen has often struggled to assert itself on the international stage. Before Iran-allied Houthi rebels seized the Yemeni capital of Sana‘a in 2014, Yemen harbored geopolitical ambitions. Ali Abdullah...
Hemeti’s patrons in the Gulf

Hemeti’s patrons in the Gulf

By Austin Bodetti3/7/2019 Sitting at the edge of Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan has often seemed an outlier in the Arab world. Nonetheless, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have turned the African country into the latest frontier of a campaign for regional...